norway

[halken]

i wonder how the norwegian lads have been getting on this winter ive seen jans pics (rosingen) and i cant wait to get there in august. i know they are comeing to the best time for the big cod so let us know how you get lads and make us really jealous :thumbs:

[lobsterkid]

:) Me martyboy and bigpirk will be landing on the shores of norway a week on monday.We are staying on the island of seloy which is on the opposite side of the fjord from radoy so we aren't to far away from were youll be staying.Staying for 8 days so will be posting when we get back.What we will probably do is post daily giving a blow by blow account of each day just to make it interesting. Wether its good fishing or bad it'll be honest.Taking a camera each so there should be plenty of pics.:) :) :)

[halken]

good luck kid i hope you get some of the biguns but leave some for us for when we get there

[Rønsingen]

Hi again Halken.

I have been fishing a bit after seatrouth lately so I haven’t been baiting to much. The weather hasn’t been helping out to much either…. But the most fun in this winter was on last Thursday when we were 4 from the www.fiskersiden.no site that met on a harbour in the middle of Bergen for some night fishing. There hade been caught an 13kg ling there two weeks ago so we thought we should give it a try. The fishing was surprisingly good to bee in the middle of the city. And we caught 2lings from 2-4lb 5 or 6 haddocks at the same size plus a cod at 6-7lb but the coolest part for specimen anglers was the Chimaera monstrosa (don’t know the English name for it.) which is a wary special looking fish. Two of them get on land from 1,5lb to 4lb and a bigger one was lost at the surface. There are pictures at my site so maybe some of you know the species? So even as we didn’t catch any big fish it was a nice night in the city :)

Jan

[Scrudgy]

Rabbitfish????

[Rønsingen]

That’s the fish. Quite cool looking fish! Watch out for the spike on the top fin. If you get stung it might be your last fishing trip….

[Rønsingen]

we had an new meeting at the pier and here is som of the result from 5 persons...
Rabbitfish: 4 from 2,5lb - 4lb
Ling: 3 from 4,5lb - 7lb
cod: 6-7 from 3lb - 10lb
haddock: >10 from 1-4lb
whiting: 3 from 1-2,5lb.

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2896_s.jpg
Fullversjon: http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2896.jpg

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2897_s.jpg
Fullversjon: http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2897.jpg

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2899_s.jpg
Fullversjon: http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2899.jpg

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2900_s.jpg
Fullversjon: http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2900.jpg

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2901_s.jpg
Fullversjon: http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1326/2901.jpg

This is in the middle of Bergen ;-)

[halken]

well done Jan some good fish there I hope theres some left for me when i get there

[lobsterkid]

:clap3: Well done some nice fish there.Fishing from the comfort of a pier to.Might give it a try on tuesday.Weather is looking a bit windy for the boat:)

[Rønsingen]

Hi again.
Here are so quick pix from our last fishing night. this time we was at frekhaug kai. and it deliverd quite well. 4 dogfish (biggest 2.5kg). 3 blackmouthed dogfish (biggest 1.2), 1 rabittfish (2.1kg), 4 ling (<5.88kg) 3 cusk (smal...)


http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1669/3881_s.jpg
Ling 5.88kg

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1668/3875_s.jpg
Rabitfish 2.1

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1671/3883_s.jpg
Gets its freedom back

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1668/3879_s.jpg
the biggest shark of the night (2.5kg)

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1668/3880_s.jpg
dumdumdumdum....

[Vlad]

Great reports with great picks of cracking fish!
Well done!

[fat lad]

Well done lads, looks like good fishing over there at the moment.
Keep it up with the reports and photos.

[Rønsingen]

Here is a quick update from the last tripp to the same place. we tried for som flattis on the day with no luck so we went back to the pier when it got dark.


http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1774/4162_s.jpg
Personal best on ling 6,3kg.

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1774/4163_s.jpg
Steelwire is good to have

Double shark.

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1774/4161_s.jpg
equal weight for me on dogfish and an new species for Oz (blackmouthed dogfish?)

5 min later...


http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/1774/4160_s.jpg
Perssonal best 3,3kg

[Marcus]

that fish from earlier posts,,like a small shark with stripes,,looks like a ghost shark??...do they call it a chimaira shark??..lives in really deep water?

i may be wrong?

[Rønsingen]

do you have a picture of this shark? the once we have cought is dogfish,blackmuthed dogfish and Rabitfish/ratfish...

[Marcus]

http://www.seafriends.org.nz/enviro/fish/sharkray/chimaeri.htm#ghost

i saw a documentary on the TV about deep Fjords in norway..and the diver was looking specifically for this shark..

here is a pic
http://www.greenfacts.org/images/glossary/chimaera.jpg

here is an article i found about them
http://www.diving-in-norway.com/snakk/index.php?topic=1035.0;wap2

and some more

http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/shark_profiles/chimaera.htm

My spelling in my previous post wasent quite right

[hugo]

That is the rabbitfish... Very nice bonus in night fishing.

[Rønsingen]

Thats right. The fish we have cought thats cald rabitfish is Chimaera monstrosa in latin, and belongs to the Chimaeridae family. It`s a deepsea fish/shark (its abit difficult seens it is between sharks and bonefishes in the systematics) and you find it generally between 300 and 500 m depth. Usually found in deeper waters in southern latitudes, while making a summer inshore migration up to 40-100 m in the northern areas.
Here are som more info:
http://www.fishbase.com/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2503

[Rønsingen]

Her is an little update. we went on a littel tripp to se if we could get som flounders. And this time it turned out quite good.

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2009/4782_s.jpg
Aasmund`s 992g (close to the norwegian reckord)

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2009/4783_s.jpg
not as bigg but im happy (770g)

After the flati fishing we tried after som ling and other deep living things
that resultet in a tusk of 3,7kg and this ling at 4,7kg.

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2009/4784_s.jpg
Ling and a tierd person.... 4,7kg.

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2009/4785_s.jpg
The bait worked (a hole smal makrell)

so the total of 6 people was:
5 Lings: > 4,7 kg
2 Tusks: >3,6 kg
4 Cods: > 2 kg
3 Grey gurnard: >400g
5 Sand dab: biggest >0,992.
3 Fluke: >880g

I dont have pictures of rest of the fish but they will end upp here after the rest of the guys gets their sleep:) http://fiskersiden.no/forum/index.php?showtopic=14800&st=0&gopid=180029&#entry180029

[hugo]

Very nice photos. Keep up the good work. Looks as if the fish are coming onshore by themselves, at least by the number and sizes u constantly show us.

Tell Oz that his 2 lb flounder look like a million dollar (errhh.. GBP)

[halken]

well don jan another great session.

[flattiefanatic]

Those Dabs are absolutely massive. Good job lads.

[Rønsingen]

Tanks for the replys. had a hole night out again. started out in Bergen and ended up in Frekhaug. So here are some more fish.

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2031/4849_s.jpg
Bergen by dawn....

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2031/4850_s.jpg
Blackmouthed dogfish 0,96

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2031/4851_s.jpg
Rabitfish at 1,8kg

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2031/4852_s.jpg
Last and biggest fish of the night. ling at 4,0kg

We hade expected more fish but, it was a nice tripp.
There are more pics her for those that is intrested.
http://fiskersiden.no/forum/index.php?showtopic=14843&st=25

[Rønsingen]

Been a litle time since my last update... i have been hunting after difrent species so there has been fishing for smal fish, but we were after som flaties a couple of days ago and ended up whit this ray. i know the norwegian name but not the english....

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2463/5961_s.jpg
Thornback ray? 7lb.

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2463/5958_s.jpg
Stealth fighter?

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2463/5962_s.jpg
Bye bye....

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2463/5966_s.jpg
A smal ling at 5-6lb is netted

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2463/5963_s.jpg
nice weather...

http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/2463/5964_s.jpg

Not the most produktive trip but since it was a new mark it will get another chans to day.
we ended up with:
1 ray: at 7lb
2 lings: at 5-6lb
1 cod: at 4-5lb
1 pollack: at 7lb

ps: it is not to far from where you are going to be Halken :secret:

[halken]

Nice one jan were you on the island or a little father afield. Were you using bait or lures. I cant wait to get there again and even if the weather isnt as good as last year hopefully the fishing will be better

[Rønsingen]

We were using bait (hole small makrell). Its north on Austerheim 20min+ with car from were you are staying. But it wasent a bite there to day. will try again in a couple of weeks since i realy want a nice ray :)