ELVERHØI - SELECTED POOLS

Theese two photographs shows Stor Pool, which because of its setting, must rank as one of the finest pools in the river. Below it lies a strech of rapids which is the first really difficult water that any fish heading upstream has to face. Above it lies an even more spectacular strech of white water rapids, and all fish tired by the ascent into Stor will surely pause to rest here before attempting this next stage. Stor has two other great advantages; not only is it comparatively easy wading, but like Bridge Pool and Pibe, fish can be caught in it at almost any height of the river. In high water I have caught salmon within a yard or two of the bank, right in the neck of the pool.  

In the middle of the pool a favourite lie for a salmon is beside a large white stone on the river bed, wich is easily discernible in low water. The tail of the pool where the water is shallower, but very fast, is a favourite place for sea-trout and I have also hooked salmon so far down the pool as to be almost in the rapids below it, and many a fish has taken me out of the pool on a breakneck chase down the edge of them. 
 

This photograph is taken looking upstream towards Telephone pool at the head of Flatvad Bridge Pool. It shows a pool that I call New Pool because it has not always existed and it only exists as a small pool in its own right at certain heights of the river. 

I can't remember how I managed to take this photograph. I was probably very foolhardy; the photograph demonstrates the need to be very careful wherever you are fishing and it is prudent to wear a life-jacket at all times, but especially where the wading is difficult. 
The photograph shows the immense power of the river in the thunderous rapids below Falevju. The dollar stone Pool is to the left of the photograph and was so named because the salmon caught here gave such a rich reward. The pool is just a short resting place on the edge of the turbulence and most, if not all of it, can be fished from one rock just below the remains of the old bridge. 
 

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