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Well the now annual Norway trip that was 7 months in the making/planning has been and gone, hope you enjoy the read below.
4 of us set off at 3pm Wedensday afternoon for the epic trip over to our chosen destination in the far far north Norway of Loppa.
The trip started with a drive up to Edinburgh by car, followed by a flight to Oslo airport where we booked an over night stay in the Oslo airport hotel to give us that extra full day fishing.
Up early and we all made the most of the English breakfast before boarding our flight to Alta airport. Once we landed we jumped onto our hired mini Bus after meeting up with some Essexs lads going to the same fish camp.
The bus trip was a long one but we did stop off a couple of times including a local pint...well can at £6 each and around a couple of shops.
Next was a trip on the ferry
and we arrived at the fish camp 1am issue, jumped into bed for a couple of hours kip and up again at 7am after a full English breakfast and out fishing for our first full day in a flat sea and warm sunshine.
The living area
My window view
Ok fishing time.....
We steamed out to some marks around Silda, Loppa and west Loppa.
With in one jig i had my first cod on and we all picked away taken cod, ling, coalie, wolfish and the dreaded torsk for a while moving around a few marks, nothing big with the best low teens.
Then we decided to head out far west Loppa and hit a shoal of big cod with everyone taken cod in the 20s, Ian getting a new PB, John,Tony and myself also taken mid 20s cod and a few others.
With it being our first day we headed back in around 7pm well pleased with the first days fishing but not before a quick stop at a shallow mark in the hope of a halibut. Tony had 2 coalie ripped off his hook so i put down a 7" shad and it went off like a shot given me a bit of a run around the boat and thou not massive it was the first halibut of the trip and came in at 17lb
The second, third and most of the fourth day seen a weather front move in with strong winds and driving rain, this never stopped us but made the fishing hard and the better marks out of touch. We still landed alot of cod, coalie, wolffish, redfish, halibut,haddock, ling, mackerel and torsk with the bets being 24lb.
Not a big one but my first ever redfish, one of about 12 we had on the trip with the best about 3lb.
Day five and six seen the winds drop, the sea flattern and the drift slow dow so we tried a few marks further out but struggled to land anything big, we did hit alot of cod 3 to low teens but we had come for the big ones so we moved about plucking away. I tried all methods, cutbait, full colaie, mackerel but had my biggest cod of the trip at the end of day six on a pirk.
27lb 8oz
We heading back in to the mid night sun (taken at 00:00 at night)
By the last day the pressure felt on to make the most of it but TBH we all starting to flag by now doing some 12-14hr trips at least each day
But the weather was great again, sun out and flat as could be sea so we headed to some 350ft marks and hit a massive shoal of haddock mid water, taken a fish a drop all between 4lb and 7lb i would say.
So with a 6am wake up call we headed back in to pack and our long trip back home. We all had a great time and landed a lot of cod but not as many 20+ fish we had hoped for or halibut.
I am sure the other lads will add a few pic's and do a bit report also.
Until next year
4 of us set off at 3pm Wedensday afternoon for the epic trip over to our chosen destination in the far far north Norway of Loppa.
The trip started with a drive up to Edinburgh by car, followed by a flight to Oslo airport where we booked an over night stay in the Oslo airport hotel to give us that extra full day fishing.
Up early and we all made the most of the English breakfast before boarding our flight to Alta airport. Once we landed we jumped onto our hired mini Bus after meeting up with some Essexs lads going to the same fish camp.
The bus trip was a long one but we did stop off a couple of times including a local pint...well can at £6 each and around a couple of shops.
Next was a trip on the ferry
and we arrived at the fish camp 1am issue, jumped into bed for a couple of hours kip and up again at 7am after a full English breakfast and out fishing for our first full day in a flat sea and warm sunshine.
The living area
My window view
Ok fishing time.....
We steamed out to some marks around Silda, Loppa and west Loppa.
With in one jig i had my first cod on and we all picked away taken cod, ling, coalie, wolfish and the dreaded torsk for a while moving around a few marks, nothing big with the best low teens.
Then we decided to head out far west Loppa and hit a shoal of big cod with everyone taken cod in the 20s, Ian getting a new PB, John,Tony and myself also taken mid 20s cod and a few others.
With it being our first day we headed back in around 7pm well pleased with the first days fishing but not before a quick stop at a shallow mark in the hope of a halibut. Tony had 2 coalie ripped off his hook so i put down a 7" shad and it went off like a shot given me a bit of a run around the boat and thou not massive it was the first halibut of the trip and came in at 17lb
The second, third and most of the fourth day seen a weather front move in with strong winds and driving rain, this never stopped us but made the fishing hard and the better marks out of touch. We still landed alot of cod, coalie, wolffish, redfish, halibut,haddock, ling, mackerel and torsk with the bets being 24lb.
Not a big one but my first ever redfish, one of about 12 we had on the trip with the best about 3lb.
Day five and six seen the winds drop, the sea flattern and the drift slow dow so we tried a few marks further out but struggled to land anything big, we did hit alot of cod 3 to low teens but we had come for the big ones so we moved about plucking away. I tried all methods, cutbait, full colaie, mackerel but had my biggest cod of the trip at the end of day six on a pirk.
27lb 8oz
We heading back in to the mid night sun (taken at 00:00 at night)
By the last day the pressure felt on to make the most of it but TBH we all starting to flag by now doing some 12-14hr trips at least each day
But the weather was great again, sun out and flat as could be sea so we headed to some 350ft marks and hit a massive shoal of haddock mid water, taken a fish a drop all between 4lb and 7lb i would say.
So with a 6am wake up call we headed back in to pack and our long trip back home. We all had a great time and landed a lot of cod but not as many 20+ fish we had hoped for or halibut.
I am sure the other lads will add a few pic's and do a bit report also.
Until next year
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