The start of the 2023 season went very well. Five large salmon (88cm to 102cm) were landed on the beat. This is 12% of the total number of salmon landed that day. See photo of super nice salmon from that day – click here. The quota was fished in just 3 days. Now it is catch& release until the second half of the quota opens on 16th June.
Opening of the 2022 season
The opening of the 2022 season 16 April went very well. The weather was super, sun, mild, light wind only, and ok water level in spite of 10 days of dry weather. In total for the whole river 45 salmon were caught. In Hulvigsalmon we got 7 salmon with the biggest 12.6 kg and an average weight of 7.7 kg. The catch rate was as high as one take per 6 hours, one out of three fish lost before landing, as is quite normal when barbless hooks are used. Now 4 days into the season 55 salmon has been landed which is already 2/3 of the annual quota of large salmon. The quota will probably soon expire. The quota of small salmon (less than 75 cm) has only been reduced by 2 fish - these grilse normally come in around mid-August and most people use C&R for these, so normally there are fish left in the quota of small salmon when the season ends 31 October. The rule of only one salmon per angler per year still exist. But for C&R you can catch as many as you manage to catch but it is recommended that you stop fishing for the season when you pass 10 salmon in a given season.
26 October, 2021
The season is closing at the end of the month. We can now look back at yet a splendid year. We got 21 salmon with an average weight at 6.1 kg and the biggest at 111cm and 12 kg. All beautiful healthy fish. The fishery is not advertised except for this homepage. This means that the fishing intensity is very light. Only 13 fishing days out of 195 days in the season were used. On average 2.5 fisher per day. This of course means that the catch rate was very high – world class. As usual the catch rate was especially high in the autumn when the grilse (2-3 kg) and 2-sea-winter salmon (3-6 kg) come into the river and the large multi-sea-winter (6 -20 kg) is getting provoked by the “new comers” and takes the fly again. We also got a handful of nice sea trout with the biggest at 3 kg.
The forecast for the coming years is very good. A lot of improvements in the river system have been done and still more are planned. Dams have been taken away and spawning gravel sites have been restored. A large tributary has just been opened for migrating fish and 41 km of prime salmon river are now accessible for salmon, in addition to the 102 km already available, in total 143 km.
“Knæk og bræk”, “Skit fiske”,
Henrik Sparholt
