Seasons 1st salmon

 

2/6 Jon Røgeberg 8,7 kg / 19,18 pound’s 

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2. June: Andreas Unger Solheim 8 kg c&r + Michael Osnes 7,5 kg c&r

10,5 kg

Pre-opening

The river conditions are perfect this morning. There are no info to give about the salmon run so far, because the counter that are mounted in the middle part of the river, have given wrong stats since the upstart in May.

Also the area had a late spring this year, and the first real flow was as late as medio May.
Anyway... Yesterday, after spotting one pool for a short time, we watched two salmons in the surface. Upcoming night we know more ;-) Stay tuned.

June

This year's opening month have been characterized by cold and windy Weather, the first three weeks was the hard part with northern winds and rain combined with very low temperatures. The river has had a great flow and the early salmons went on the cold river deep and quietly. Last week the weather changed, and we got the "25-30c sunshining all day" type of weather that salmonfishers hate. June catches in relation to the last 3 seasons is average, but included salmon that has been hooked and lost, there have been more action than the journal shows. With 25 salmon lost (some of very good size), reminds us about the 2006 season with only 11 salmon landed in June and a total seasonal catch of 200 salmons.

Opening

3 salmons, 5kg - 8,5 kg & 11,1 kgJesper Kofoed, 11,1 kg kl 04:00

Update

The river conditions has been exelent so far, good water levels and high water temperatures this time to be. The high temperature makes the river easy runned for the salmons, now it's pased over 643 salmons at the counter on Bjørset dam in Meldal. This is significantly above what has gone up in recent years, that early in the season. Record years 2001 and 2002 had at this time (28 / 5), respectively, 335 and 235 each. Some grilse have already been registry in May on the Mølnbukt project, and that's a old sign for a good salmon-year! 3 fully booked teams are fishing the opening at the Lodge's pools, still available rods for June, July and August.

Pre-Season

We got this years first river-flow 1st week of may with a max at 333 m³.
Untill last week, more than 300 fish have passed the counter at the Bjorset-Dam. Today the water level is around 80 m3 at the lower pools.
Also last week one neighbour of the Lodge had a short stop at the Dam and counted 20 salmons running through, so there are allready a lot of salmons on the river! We expect a slight rise for the water level start of the week, and below 100m3 at the lower part for the opening day. (depends of course on the weather conditions next week) Watertemp at perfect 8-9 c

PREMIERE 2008

The river has increased by 22 m3 last 2 days, expect a smaller flow before the season starts. Inside the regulated part there was beautifully 26m3 in the morning. Water temperature approaching perfect! Only 9 days to wait! 22.mai-Island at 08:00 85 m³-Storås 26 m³ water temp 7.3 C