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Nedenfor Bingsfossen
You have very easy access to both banks of Glomma below Bingsfoss. Here
the community of Sørum have been very clever in making the river
side area a popular place for outdoor people, especially children. Here
they can play in the sand banks while mum & dad blow the cobwebs of
the fly rod.
You are still able to find old stretches of the river where the grayling
still has something to hang on to. There are also every now and then big
trout caught here, these are mostly big fish that have come down from the
lakes Mjøsa and Rena in search of food. Late last year my brother
came in contact with a monster of a trout that fell for his little "Bingen
nymph" . But with only a 0.15 tippet on the point the meeting with
the Laotian was short lived.
Further down, the river slows and flows at a more relaxed pace at Sørumsand
near Fetsund. Here fishing for pike and burbot is good. You can fish all
year round. In the winter the burbot is popular amongst ice fishermen.
Early in the spring the pike are in the shallower water and take a streamer
or tube fly very willingly. When fishing pike you should only take the
fish that you are going to eat, and carefully return the rest. The indiscriminate
killing of these fish by so called "game fishermen" is sickening.
Each year the river wardens can tell stories of senseless killing by these
trophy hunters.
