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Post by ginge1001 on Aug 12, 2010 9:25:21 GMT
I'm off to the suldal river tomorrow and wondered if any one here has fished the river before? and if so have they any tips or advice they would like to share with me.
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Post by salmo on Sept 15, 2010 22:06:26 GMT
I hve fished this river and it is a stunning place to spend some time. Halfway through the morning you will be deliberately dropping the smart phone in a tin of swarfega and hoping you never see it again ;D ;D The fish are late run so you have picked a good week. The forecast next week is good fishing weather conditions and hopefully it will neot be too wet. www.yr.no/place/Norway/Rogaland/Suldal/Sand/long.htmlThe river is well suited to the fly although a lot of spinning is done below the foss (water falls). When you see some of the steep sided gorge areas it is easy to see why people spin. With steep terrain it can be difficult to spey cast since there is no room for a D loop so I can understsand the attraction of the spinner . I do however believe you will have more success with the fly. I would use the same type of lure in both cases. A good size tube or a ledgered tube fly on the spinning rod to get deeper if you are struggling with line sink rate. I used intermediate with sxfst sinktip or type 4 shooting head but the floating line with sink is generall more enjoyable. The turbulent water in the falls is a honey pot for salmon and the plastic tube will dance really nicely. On my first visit I caught a fish on a fly within 20 minutes of arriving. Most satisflying was that I tied it up in the hut late when I arrived the previous night. It was a copper wire wrapped plastic cotton bud tube of brown bucktail. It was below the falls and everyone blanked on the spinner and half switched to fly or tube in the afternoon after seeing my fly work. A willle gunn variant would work, perhaps a copper bodied WG, so not too dissimilar from the british rivers. Autumn colours with plenty of brown would be the closest thing but some call it a rusty something. Thistype of bug would be worth trying: salmo.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=favouriteflies&action=display&thread=3805Also if you have the dosh try something more exotic like Frodin's Phatakorva. Håkon Norlings temple dog style or brown fox with some simple flash would be worth a try. If the templedogs don't work go back the the sparsel dress tubes. salmo
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Post by salmo on Sept 17, 2010 18:58:22 GMT
It took me a while to find this picture of the Archer fish. Caught at suldalslågen. A free day on the Dee next spring for the best factual account of the fish and captor and another day for the best caption ;D salmo
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Post by sinkingtip on Sept 17, 2010 21:12:50 GMT
Factual Account The biggest fish ever caught on the Suldal was 75 pounds (34 kg) donkeys ago. Mr Grieg, an Englishman who took this salmon on fly, had to play the fish for 12 hours. There are still captures that exceed 20kg every year and the biggest fly caught fish in 2005 was 21.1 kg. Since 1957 the total catch has been between 300 and 2000 salmon a year. Walter Archer, who was Chief Inspector for the Scottish salmon fisheries, become so besotted with the river that he started renting rights: until in 1884 the whole river was under his control! Victor Campbell, who joined Robert Falcon Scott on his expedition to the North Pole, also enjoyed control over part of the river for 40 years - the lucky barsteward. Archers fish was caught after a light lunch of roll mops and oatcakes on a balmy August evening. The fish was taken on a scandi style Tups Indispensable and after an epic struggle of 3 days the leviathan was eventually grassed much to the delight of a passing group of nomadic trolls. Eye witnesses claimed that the scales were the size of plectrums with the fins gifted to King Olaf The Lofty to be used as ceremonial snow shovels.
Caption "S'pose ah'd better get up the road and get the tea on"
Well, its a start ................... ;D
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Post by conwyrod on Sept 17, 2010 21:36:00 GMT
;D
I can't believe the Coop had run out of John West.
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Post by Speyducer on Sept 17, 2010 22:17:11 GMT
It took me a while to find this picture of the Archer fish. Caught at suldalslågen. A free day on the Dee next spring for the best factual account of the fish and captor and another day for the best caption ;D salmo "If you say one more word, I'll stop carrying you and make you swim all the way home!" Mike
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Post by salmo on Sept 18, 2010 6:34:37 GMT
Factual AccountThe biggest fish ever caught on the Suldal was 75 pounds (34 kg) donkeys ago. Mr Grieg, an Englishman who took this salmon on fly, had to play the fish for 12 hours. There are still captures that exceed 20kg every year and the biggest fly caught fish in 2005 was 21.1 kg. Since 1957 the total catch has been between 300 and 2000 salmon a year. Walter Archer, who was Chief Inspector for the Scottish salmon fisheries, become so besotted with the river that he started renting rights: until in 1884 the whole river was under his control! Victor Campbell, who joined Robert Falcon Scott on his expedition to the North Pole, also enjoyed control over part of the river for 40 years - the lucky barsteward. Archers fish was caught after a light lunch of roll mops and oatcakes on a balmy August evening. The fish was taken on a scandi style Tups Indispensable and after an epic struggle of 3 days the leviathan was eventually grassed much to the delight of a passing group of nomadic trolls. Eye witnesses claimed that the scales were the size of plectrums with the fins gifted to King Olaf The Lofty to be used as ceremonial snow shovels. Caption"S'pose ah'd better get up the road and get the tea on" Well, its a start ................... ;D Very hot on the facts. They have a fishing hut down at sand with lots of the big ones outlined quite remarkable when you see how big some of these fish were. Quite sad also that the only fish returned were when the line was parted. :(next to none went back to spawn. I rented a house a few years back from a doctor who had a summer house in suldal. When I mentioned how much I admired the river he told me that his father rented fishing there every summer when he grew up. His dad's best was 27kg and had several others over 20kg; he himself had one at 23kg when he was only 12 years old. Lucky for some eh ;D salmo
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Post by salmo on Nov 13, 2012 22:34:12 GMT
I am just catching up with fishing after 45 day offshore campaign. Some time back I was talking to Kenneth Solli from Ålgård Buå. He organises a trip to Suldal every year. Around Aug 12. This year his party of 15 people fishing Friday to Sunday caught 12 fish average weight 9,25 kg. Here's a link: www.buas.no/gallery_20.html
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