Summer of 2012 report(regular updates)

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Orn	June 22nd, 2012, 6:56 pm
Iceland Posts: 63	Hi guys. I'm finally out in the countryside and can go fishing everyday. It has been a cold June and the fishing has been a bit slow, but I've got some good fish. This one here was a recapture since july 27th 2010. It has grown 2 cm and changed a bit in color! Here is a comparison photo, two years between pictures. I've had one more recapture, a fish I caught last summer that had grown 1 cm. This one here was a beauty, really strong and was always going under a big cliff, almost breaking the leader on the rocks. And this one is from my brown trout lake, very fat one: And finally I went to a nearby river, this is a former glacial river but a recent dam project changed it to a beautiful crystal clear river. The farmers there asked me to go and see if there was any arctic char in the river and I didn't disappoint them. In the stomach of the char was a lot of midge larvae and all kinds of beetles and ladybugs! Hope you don't mind pictures of dead fish, the char tasted great and didn't go to waste. This is what has been happening the last two weeks, of course many small trout were caught but they are not worth mentioning. Best of luck to you guys, I will update this when something exciting has happened!
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Oldredbarn	June 22nd, 2012, 7:03 pm
Novi, MI Posts: 1681	Orn, Great looking fish! I have a beetle that I would love to try up there with you! Looks like that fish wasn't letting anyone of them get by him. When you speak of re-capture...Are these fish tagged? We are about to start a study over here where we will be placing tiny transmitters of some sort in a few fish and chasing them down every so many days and marking their location with GPS...Should be interesting. Thanks for the report...That one Brown is a Hog! :) Spence
	"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood

Orn	June 22nd, 2012, 7:21 pm
Iceland Posts: 63	Thanks Spence. I do tag the fish in my river as I explained in this thread: http://www.troutnut.com/topic/6560/Fishing-adventure#30238 But I hadn't started tagging the fish in 2010 so I had to compare and use the markings on the fish as a "fingerprint". And believe me if you will but I also kind of remembered the fish after all this time, he was caught 50 meters from where I had caught him in 2010.
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Oldredbarn	June 22nd, 2012, 10:33 pm
Novi, MI Posts: 1681	Orn, I went back and watched your vid...Wonderful! I am envious of a lot of things I saw but especially the fact that there's nothing to hassle with your backcast! :) Somewhere in that thread you responded to someones note by saying that you needed to work on your casting...If you come fish the Au Sable with me we can take care of that...The tag alders are so thick along the banks and behind you that your casting should pick up rather quickly or you'll lose a hundred flies a day. :) Your casting looked fine and you were getting it done! You said you are tagging birds as well...Are you keeping records? Interesting landscape there... Spence
	"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood

Martinlf	June 23rd, 2012, 1:03 pm
Moderator Palmyra PA Posts: 2094	Orm, Thank you for the windown into your world. A number of us are still saving our pennies for a plane ticket. :) All kidding aside, you do live in a flyfisher's paradise. --Louis
	"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell

PaulRoberts	June 23rd, 2012, 1:31 pm
Colorado Posts: 1169	Good to see you are on the water again. Ahhhhhhh...... I've done similar things with largemouth bass here -"fingerprinting" them by markings. And posted the images too.

Orn	July 8th, 2012, 5:23 pm
Iceland Posts: 63	I went back and watched your vid...Wonderful! I am envious of a lot of things I saw but especially the fact that there's nothing to hassle with your backcast! :) You said you are tagging birds as well...Are you keeping records? Sorry for the late response but I have no internet connection in the 99 year old house I live in. In fact, today(8th of july) are exactly 100 years since the previous house burned down to ashes. But yeah, not too many trees but instead the fish can see you very easily when you stand up against the sky and there is no shelter from the strong and cold arctic winds! The grass is always greener on the other side ;) And I was not tagging birds by myself but helping and working as an assistant. But back to the fishing. It's been hot over here(too hot) and that's been slowing the fishing down. The weather here never seems to get it right, either too cold or too hot! Then I have been searching some more for the farmers in the newly damned river and caught some more chars. I even got a chance to go search for fishing pools in a big canyon in the salmon area of the river! It's a really beautiful river with even more beautiful salmon! The fight was incredible, the line got hooked in the big rock in the middle of the river(see picture above) and I had to follow the salmon almost all the way down to the bridge! I was all by myself in this big canyon so I had a helmet in case of rocks falling down. I lost a big brown trout a few days ago, I was trying a 3X tippet and the fish just snapped it in no time! I was furious with myself, from now on, only big ass leaders for big ass browns! That's it for now, best of luck to you all!
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Orn	July 13th, 2012, 5:50 am
Iceland Posts: 63	4th of august 2010 I caught this brownie that was 48 cm and really fat. When he was younger something bit his dorsal fin and left a mark so I have always called him 'the shark'. On tuesday night I was fishing about 70 meters up river from where I caught him when I hook a big trout. It was in a very small but a very deep pool beneath a waterfall, it's so deep that the trout took out line by going vertical straight down. When I landed the fish I recognized him right away and now he's 52 cm and 2,03 kg. I lost a big brown trout a few days ago, I was trying a 3X tippet and the fish just snapped it in no time! I was furious with myself, from now on, only big ass leaders for big ass browns! Scratch that, later that night I caught another smaller brown trout and got my fly back after 8 days in the fish's mouth. Strange thing is he also has a damaged dorsal fin, this is the only place in the river I see this on the fish. I also went to a very big and deep pool with huge rocks on the bottom. In this pool are few but huge brownies. It's a hard fishing place and I have only once managed to hook one of them and that was in august 2010, I had no control over that fish, he went up river, underneath on of the rocks and cut the leader on the rocks. I haven't hooked a fish there again until tuesday night.... and it was history repeating itself all over again. The fish wanted to go behind the big rocks again but I wouldn't let him and with this huge tension something had to give and my fly came flying out of the water. Again I was left shivering and shaking on the riverbank. I think I'm turning into Captain Ahab because I will catch this monster brown no matter how long it will take me. This was the fly doing all the damage, tungsten and led underneath the body to make it extra heavy, specially designed go deep into pools where the big boys are. I went again last night and I propose a minute silence for my broken fly rod, I was just getting it ready and pulling the line through when it snapped :/ I'm gonna talk to the dealer over here and hope the warranty covers this.
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Martinlf	July 13th, 2012, 8:49 am
Moderator Palmyra PA Posts: 2094	I think I'm turning into Captain Ahab Now there's a sentiment that many of us can relate to. Best of luck, Orm. Just don't let one of them bite a leg off.
	"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell

Orn	August 5th, 2012, 6:32 pm
Iceland Posts: 63	Got the opportunity to go salmon fishing yesterday in the same river as before, got my first salmon on the fly and then my biggest fish to date(78 cm). I lost a huge salmon that went down the canyon and snapped the leader like a thread! This morning I went brown trout fishing in a stunning weather, very hot, calm and sunny. It's a cristal clear river with a lot of rhyolite rocks in the bottom that makes it really colorful and really beautiful. I saw a big trout rising for flies, casted in his direction and he took the fly seconds later! Very old male brown trout, big head, big and worn out fins and lean body. I saw other fish, including this one that grabbed the fly but didn't hang on! All in all a very good weekend in fantastic weather!
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Troutnut	August 5th, 2012, 9:10 pm
Administrator Fairbanks, AK Posts: 2130	Great pictures! Very few destinations can make me wish I could hop on the first plane out of Alaska to go fishing, but I think you're in one there.
	Jason Neuswanger The Troutnut

Wbranch	August 6th, 2012, 10:24 pm
York & Starlight PA Posts: 1065	Orn, As usual just gorgeous pictures of big browns and now atlantic salmon. Do you use traditional hairwing salmon flies and fish them across and down on a floating line? Do you see them come up on the swing and boil on the fly before they take the fly?
	Catskill fly fisher for fifty years.

Orn	August 7th, 2012, 8:19 am
Iceland Posts: 63	Do you use traditional hairwing salmon flies and fish them across and down on a floating line? Do you see them come up on the swing and boil on the fly before they take the fly? Yes, pretty much. The water was very clear so I could see the salmon the whole time, it was awesome seeing the big one coming out of the deep and grabbing this small fly I was using(red frances no. 12)! Yesterday I finished a great weekend by getting this beautiful arctic char, my biggest arctic char ever. She took exactly the same fly as the brown trout the day before.
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PaulRoberts	August 7th, 2012, 12:29 pm
Colorado Posts: 1169	Wonderful images, and stories. Thanks for sharing.

Jmd123	August 8th, 2012, 2:26 am
Oscoda, MI Posts: 1394	Wow, what a beautiful fish! Aren't char lovely? Jonathon
	No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...

Orn	August 16th, 2012, 3:25 pm
Iceland Posts: 63	This one here was a beauty, really strong and was always going under a big cliff, almost breaking the leader on the rocks. Remember this one from earlier this summer? When I caught him he was 53 cm long, the weight was 1,73 kg and the circumference was 26 cm. I tagged the fish and released him back into the river. Well, I caught that fish again 42 days later and the transformation was incredible. I had never in a million years guessed that this was the same fish. The length was 56 cm, the weight 2,3 kg and the circumference was 30,5 cm. In only 42 days he had gotten 33% heavier and 3 cm longer. Sadly for the first time I forgot my camera at home, which is a pity because it would be great to have a comparison photo. For those who are stuck in the dark ages and don't know SI-units :P 53 cm = 20,9 inches 56 cm = 22 inches 3 cm = 1,2 inches 1,73 kg = 3,8 pounds 2,3 kg = 5,1 pounds
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Adirman	August 16th, 2012, 6:15 pm
Monticello, NY Posts: 276	Beautiful pics my friend!! From the background landscape in many of them, looks like you have a beautiful country as well!! Whats the temps like right now?

Orn	August 16th, 2012, 6:57 pm
Iceland Posts: 63	Too warm, in my part of the country it hasn't rained at all the whole summer so the water levels are at an all time mininum, almost all fishing has stopped. The temperatures haven't dropped down below 20°C for three weeks, too warm, too dry, can't wait for rain.
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Orn	August 19th, 2012, 3:57 pm
Iceland Posts: 63	It has hardly rained here all summer and the droughts are killing the fishing. Every small stream and pond is disappearing and the lakes are very very low. Every other farm is out of water(including me) and it's not looking good. These photos show my river in floods, normal, and then finally this morning. The trout just stay under rocks and in the deepest pools. Last year I had caught 59 brown trouts in my river on this day, this summer I have caught 13. I can't wait for autumn and the rain, then there will be a lot of action! Nobody remembers seeing the river this small and water holes that have never failed are failing, it's been awful the whole summer. Finlly here's a picture of fish no. 13 this summer. I used my biggest and most heavy nymph to get deep down in the deepest pool where the brown trout are just staying and hiding from the sun.
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Martinlf	August 19th, 2012, 11:36 pm
Moderator Palmyra PA Posts: 2094	I hope you (and your fish) get rain and relief soon.
	"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell

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