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All the Norwegian fishing stories about
the young boy and his grandfather are about fishing perch or trout with
worms. The setting is a lazy summer afternoon, gazing at the float and
planning the life as a great Man of art or science. Suddenly the float
disappears and....
There are few, if any, fisherman now coming of age that did not start as a worm fisherman. Today children around eight can be seen handling a flyrod with some success. As a hole, there is a large variety in peoples fishing habits nowadays. This is particularily true for the flyfisherman who is very likely to develop flies for every thinkable species, salt or freshwater. The trout is the most common freshwater fish in Norway, found almost everywhere. Sizes and feeding habits vary from the most populated ponds and streams with fish of poor quality to the large inhabitants of the lakes that can reach +10kg and take little interest in a fly. Trolling has become a popular sport many places and some of the small boats look more like research vessels equipped with all sorts of electronic devices. In older times, fishing where free of charge most places, but that was long before internet or tourism became familiar words. Now you have to pay a state fee for freshwaterfishing and normally NOK 20.- to 60.- a day to fish ponds, lakes and rivers. Many places you still only need to ask the nearest farm for permisssion to use your own little paradise completely free. Most of the information on these pages deals with fishing for trout, char, whitefish and grayling. Information on fishing eel can be found on this page. And as we say in Norway - Skitt fiske! |
