About this guide.

This guide is made for all of those who share the love for fishing. Though the guide have a focus on flyfishing most of the scenery and sites are equally accessible for the spinner- or worm fisherman. Nature is for all to enjoy and easily accessible everywhere. The law on rights to passage on uncultivated land has formed an important basis for everymans possibility in sharing the value of more or less undisturbed nature.

Flyfishing in Norway was introduced by english visitors around 1820. There is found words and expressions in old Norrøn litterature that gives belief that our ancestors caught fish in a flyfishing manner, but this was early forgotten and the visiting "tourists" from England was regarded rather sceptically when approaching the river with a rod and line. Numerous books where written by this pioners of the art.

Though the english started to fish Norwegian rivers and some bought the entire fishing rights of nowadays famous rivers, this period has only cultural-historic interest in respect to this guide. This guide is meant for everybody, not only those with thick wallets. Still you will find exclusive rivers in this site as well as information on rivers where cards can be bought more or less on the road, where fishing is less expensive and where people you meet, or the fishing sites itself, can give you instant pleasure and long lasting memories.