Pictures from me... :-)

[Cortez_Conversions]

Stunning pics! Thanks for sharing!

[STRIPER LOU]

Great pics Putte. Norway is king when it comes to codfish and also Norwegian Jigs. I enjoy jigging for these in our Block Island area. There was a time when you could just about fill the boat.

They still have some great catches but its more sporadic and depends on the amount of herring, tinker mackerel, and sand eels that are around.

What you gents call coalfish is know to us as Pollack, Ocean Pollack, Boston Blues, etc. etc. Fierce fighters! Trolling a frame one day we had a 4 bagger, all in the 20 to 25 lb range. I remember my brother and I gaffing 3 of them a sliding the last one up over the transom. It was a back breaker.

Even the cod can be excellent fighters. Here its a jig with an armed teaser. At times fishing 125 ft of water, its not uncommon to find them up to 25ft below the surface chasing herring. When those fish are on the feed like that its game on!

Halibut for our area is a no, you have to go further north but for cod I thoroughly enjoy catching them, and if we get an early spring we'll head out and pound them for sure.
Keep up the great work and post up all the pics. When the weather is like it is here in New England, its pics like that which keep us psyched and ready for action!

All the best,  ..  Lou

[54bullseye]

Putte
My name is John Taylor I live on the East Coast and have fished from Rhode Island to Maine since I was a kid of around 12 years old so roughly 48 years and I have only seen a handful of Atlantic Halibut caught. The biggest was back in the mid 80s out of Gloucester Mass. on the boat "Yankee Patriot" it weighed in at 216 lbs which to me is a GIANT !!!!  I know they get much bigger in Norway !! The Coal fish are similar to our Pollock which we still get in good numbers in the fall some to 30 pounds or better and like the Coal Fish they are great fighters !! Our Cod on the other hand used to be abundant to 40 pounds plus but populations are way down and last year only one fish per day per person could be kept and only for a two month season from what I hear there will be zero Cod kept by sport fisherman this year in the Gulf of Maine. Halibut on the other hand only one per boat per trip can be kept and they must be 41" to keep so needles to say luck needs to be on your side to bring home a Halibut !!! I have only caught one Halibut and it was a half inch short @ 40 1/2" so I had to put it back !!!!!  That fish came off Fippennies Ledge which is roughly 60 or so miles off New Hampshire that is where my girlfriend and I fish out of most of the time Sea Brook NH. I posted one picture of my Halibut before throwing it back overboard and another Picture of us holding up Cod on another Fippennies trip on a smaller boat. Norway is on my BUCKET LIST.
Great Post  Putte !!!      John

[Putte]

wailua boy; There is some halibut that are caught from the shore in "my" area, but there are some better places in Norway for this kind of fishing.

In Norway there also are minimum measurement for different species of fish, for example halibuts are 80 cm minimum size.

The following posts are just different scenerie around Norway, this Beautiful country !

[Putte]

Campingsite in the middle of Norway.

[Putte]

One of all "Fjords"...

[Putte]

"Bridge over trouble water"....

[Putte]

A typical Norweigan Church.

[Putte]

Mountain scenerie.

[Putte]

Typical small village in one of all fjords of Norway.

[conchydong]

Awesome scenery and fish. Thanks for sharing your beautiful country with us.

[Midway Tommy]

Amazing photos and scenery! I'm speechless and in awe!

[David Hall]

Stunning scenery Putte.  I can't help but notice nobody is in shorts and t shirts. 

[Shark Hunter]

Great Post Putte!
Thanks for Sharing.

[Tightlines667]

Stunning scenery!

Thank you for sharing!

Are those norse gargoyles on the roof of that building?  Or what is their purpose?

John