some fish from the summer and April in Norway

[hafnor]

Thought I should share some photos of some of the catch I and my buddies have caught the last year included some seascape pictures and some gear.

[redsetta]

Amazing Hafnor - looks like paradise!
Definitely some postcard-quality shots in there.
And that salmon is an incredible colour.
What kind of fish is that in the last four pics?
Thanks for sharing, Justin

[wallacewt]

magic! nice to see the fish kept on ice got a better photo of that boat?

[hafnor]

that red "salmon" is actually an arctic char. the four last pics is cod. thank you for the nice comments

[Alto Mare]

Nice shots  Hafnor, thanks for sharing. If you don't mind me asking , how are those spinners loaded?

Amazing Hafnor - looks like paradise!
Definitely some postcard-quality shots in there.
And that salmon is an incredible colour.
What kind of fish is that in the last four pics?
Thanks for sharing, Justin

Justin, Cod is the traditional Italian Christmas-Eve fish. It gets butterflied, salted and cured for one year... then you have baccala which is used for many different dishes.

[hafnor]

the spinners are pretty big and we do not cast very often with them. They are loaded with, 50, 65 and 80 pound braid. In norway we use short top shot. from 2-10 feet of heavy mono or fluor. 150LB. I have jigging braid on most of my spinners, these have marked metres on it so you know approx. how deep you are. This is important as the big polack often stayes anywhere from 10 to 400 feet of water

[broadway]

Great shots!  You ain't kidding when you say "big" pollack Those cod are some slobs, too!  Nice job, Haf
Dom

[conchydong]

 
Beautiful pictures and very nice fish. Very different types of fish and fishing for me as I am in Florida. Might have to put Norway on my  places to go/things to do list.  Thanks for posting.

[redsetta]

Thanks Hafnor - nothing like that round my neck of the woods.
Never knew cod got that big - which puts those old stories about the Grand Banks into perspective.
Cheers, Justin

[Nessie Hunter]

Most Excellent Hafnor. 
Some great landscape shots ~ post card quality!!
Beautiful area......

Man those are some TOAD fish to....  Way to go.....

[hafnor]

Thank you again guys. It is always fun posting pics and getting credit for them. The cods get huge in the northern parts here. The fisheries have never been better than now. The "skrei" cod gets huge around febuary to may month. It comes into the fjords from the barents sea. biggest caught on reel last year was over 80 pounds

[hafnor]

the boat used was bought this year. a nice boat in calm weather, a lot of space:)
http://web-1.boatshop24.com/images/bootsbilder/images_21/s9/2800921.jpg

[ossipeter]

Great Fotos and Fishes. I´ll be at Soroya next year, end of July, and hope we have such luck too.

[Steve-O]

Like the others already said - NICE photos and Fishes!

I'm interested in hearing about the rod and reel being held in the teeth of the angler with the nice 20kg+ Atlantic Halibut. It looks like a custom built spiral wrapped jigging rod but the specifics, if you have them would be nice. What blank and guides? What reel model?  Looks like a great set up to me!

Those cod are the same species as our McDonalds Filet O-fish sandwich. 

I caught a pile of them on my summer trip to Alaska but they were MUCH smaller... down in the 4kg range.

thanks for sharing!

Steve-O

[hafnor]

the rod you see there is actually a production custom rod called black hole cape cod special. it is spiral wrapped with fuji guides. it is a 350g jigging rod measuring 5,2fot. it is fully parabolic and handles very heavy jigs and huge fish. it is a nano cf rod. here are some pics. see kilsongs website for specs. www.jignpop.com