Hi everyone ! I hope this is the correct way to go... I´m gonna fill this thread with pictures from my fishing trips as well as pictures of fishing gears and so on !
This first picture is on two small halibuts, caught in northern Norway. My wife and i hooked 2 fish´s at the same time, double fight is alway fun !
This one is the view from the cabin at my paradise, it will always be a part of my heart !
This one is from the release of my second biggest halibut, 168 cm pure power !
And the last one for today... Me fighting the 168 cm halibut in beautiful Norway !
Keep it up.
Great fish and a great wife who enjoys fishing....doesn't get much better.....you a lucky man.....Bill
Looks like some incredible scenery , thanks for posting.
Keep those coming brother!
Great shots Putte, thanks for sharing.
sal
Heck yeah, that's a beautiful country and nice fish!
Putte rah!
steve
very nice!!!!! ;D
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Love it !!
This one is on one of my friend who was with us, and her only dream was to catch "a nice flat fish"... This is her result !
Next one, my wife with her personal best on atlantic cod, about 21 kg, caught during summer. In norway the really big ones arrive during the winter, called "skrei"... So 21 kilos during summer is a nice fish !
Another friend of mine with a nice coalfish, "The Norwegian Torpedo", really nice fish to hook... Amazing runs, fast and hard !
This one is on my best friend in fishing, "The Finnish Mumintroll", with his personal best on hallibut, but this year he´s gonna beat that one !
And one that i took during a guided tour, this fish is about 188 cm´s long and his first halibut EVER. He was quite amazed about the strenght in the fish. He wantef to give up several times during the fight. This moment is just before the release.
More love from one of my guided tour... A man and his fish ! :-D
A winter view over the village i lived in during my season of guiding. It´s called "Havöysund" and is just up there, as far north you can get in scandinavia.
Another nice fish caught during a guided tour, about 155 cm´s long and really strong, this one went from the surface down to the bottom, 40 - 50 meters deep several times before we could secure it at the boatside, some quick pictures, and back she went.
This is a picture of the halibut leaving the bottom to attack the lure you can see 8 meters above. This is actually the fish you can see in the post above. I just told him that there was "a rise" and then: BAM a hard strike and of she went !
Once again a picture of my amazing wife, this time fighting a really nice coalfish on light gear ! So much fun !!!
And this is the result of her fight... "Norwegian Torpedo" !
Beautiful!
Wish there were Fluke like that! ;D
Joe
Nice shots and if you have any of the Norwegian endemics(gamefish or not)I personally would love to see. Out of curiosity, are any large halibut taken shore casting in your region? If so whats the largest?
Cabin picture is what I imagined for a small fishing village in Norway! Beautiful
Andy
Stunning pics! Thanks for sharing!
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
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
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 !
Campingsite in the middle of Norway.
One of all "Fjords"...
"Bridge over trouble water"....
A typical Norweigan Church.
Mountain scenerie.
Typical small village in one of all fjords of Norway.
Awesome scenery and fish. Thanks for sharing your beautiful country with us.
Amazing photos and scenery! I'm speechless and in awe!
Stunning scenery Putte. I can't help but notice nobody is in shorts and t shirts.
Great Post Putte!
Thanks for Sharing.
Stunning scenery!
Thank you for sharing!
Are those norse gargoyles on the roof of that building? Or what is their purpose?
John
Thanks Mr. Putte for the welcomed photos, wowwee! your a tough couple to do that for fun, Its a beautiful place where you live. Lots of water, stunning scenery, quaint architecture, and the metric system still telling us westerners how soft we are.
Send more pictures anytime, as we all enjoy fishing and the life. Welcome to a great family of admirers.
Also any tackle tips, jigs, baits and such would be appreciated, as I also fish halibut some in S.E. Alaska, and would love to share info with you.
Below is my wife with a few nice ones we got a couple of years ago. Her 4/0 Avet is blue and has a faint clicker.
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Ah ! It´s always nice to see pictures from "over there" :-)
Normally i use softlures to catch halibuts, and also to catch cod, coalfish etc. Sometimes i use a deadbait tackle, because live baits are forbidden in Norway. It depends on my mode, soft lures are more active fishing, while deadbait are much more relaxed. This year i´m gonna try more float angling, it´s very effective !
And to set things right, i live in Sweden, but all my deepsea fishing is in Norway, i love that country !
One of my Accurates and a softlure, nice colours during clear days ! :-)
And someone noticed that it´s not kinda "Hawaii" weather in Norway, but sometimes... ( Not my brightest moment... )
Quote from: Tightlines666 on February 19, 2017, 08:47:25 PM
Stunning scenery!
Thank you for sharing!
Are those norse gargoyles on the roof of that building? Or what is their purpose?
John
I´m not really sure waht you mean, my english is not that perfect... ;-)
Putte, John was asking about the unusual (in America) roof decorations on the church. I wondered about them also. I looked closely at the roof and they might look like gargoyles (person med groteskt ansikte) from a distance but they look like just a building decoration. I must congratulate you on your photography. You have received a lot of responses for a first post. Also you have plenty of fish for your lutefisk. Dominick
beautiful country!!!!
Awesome fish, excellent Pictures, love the scernario and landscapes
greetings from Baja, Mexico
This is a picture of my personal best during the fight. The rod in one hand and the camera in the other, needed the proof if the fish should get loose. :-)
And here is the fish on land, it´s nothing i´m proud of but the fish died and i couldn´t do anything about it :-( Here in scandinavia the halibut is a threatened specie and normally i try to release as many as possible, of course we take some to eat, but when they are bigger than 110 - 120 cm´s we put them back. This one is 187 cm´s and the weight around 82 kilos.
And a bad, really bad, video from one of our trips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKUZrQmEArc
:-)
I enjoyed that.
Thanks for sharing!
Quote from: STRIPER LOU on February 19, 2017, 06:28:41 PM
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
I think that pollock and coalfish are 2 different species over here, pollock is what we call: "Bleka" a fierce fighter, kinda bronze coloured, with big black eyes. And coalfish is what we call: Gråsej, a little bit more silver coloured, hunts in big shoals and are really easy to catch during the late summer, early fall in Norway. Really strong fighters, but you need to fight them hard so they dont get to exhausted, really hard to release them if you fight them too long.
This is a coalfish, "gråsej"... :-)
And this is a pollock, "Bleka"... :-)
That was a great video thank you for sharing it here. I enjoyed it very much.
ok, looks like we've got a destination for another road trip!!!!! ;D
I'm in!
Brother....I seriously need to get my Passport and hang out with you guys....great fish and great video.....Bill
Haha.... We could make it work... ! ;-)
Aaand..... Here are some of my reels, but when i compare to some of the guys in here, i´m really far behind ! :-)
You might be behind in reels but your sure not behind in Halibut's !!!! John T.
Thanks for sharing pictures of friends and great experiences. Was one of the better videos I,ve seen for living the life. It was great!
Great editing job too. lots of clip cutting. Anytime you can send more. You made riding my excersize bike fun for a change! :-*
Awesome video (https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPICPwmq-zKXROyu-__FKoar3N8GZotshjT-sZdMCvWndhz2mR)
Today a brand new love arrived by mail... I won this one on a facebook competition, how abput that !? I´m happy as a kid on christmas eve ! ;D Any thoughts about this one ?
Awesome video amigo, really enjoy it
I dont know the brand of the reel but looks pretty solid and sturdy, it should be good for some big habilbuts
How do you like the higher speed retrieve reels? I cant do more than about 4.5:1 here as we must have different conditions. The 2 speed low helps heavy loads, but how heavy of jigs, or sinkers do your reels and you like?
and? what heights of tides do you have? I,m thinking 16-19 feet/meters? Just wondering? ??? Thanks too! ;)
Your reels are too small to fish the depth we have to fish for halibut, we fish 600-800 feet most of the time.
My son's big butt.
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Some nice butt.
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More nice butt.
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Quote from: Keta on February 22, 2017, 08:52:12 PM
Your reels are too small to fish the depth we have to fish for halibut, we fish 600-800 feet most of the time.
My son's big butt
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Some nice butt
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DAMN ! That´s deep... During the autumn we often find the butts in really shallow waters, 20 - 40 feet... 6 - 15 meters. During the fall when they come closer to the shore, they normally are around 20 - 50 meters and are really hungry after the spawning that take place really deep up here, 6 - 800 meters. We can actually look at the hallibuts on the bottom and see them attack the lure... ! :-)
When I lived in Alaska we "cried" if we had to fish deeper than 120' (36m) and often fished 60' (18m). Occasionally we would target large fish and fished the top of a submerged terminal moraine at 260' (80m) but I rarely kept halibut over 60 # (27kg). The water off the moraine was 1200' (360m) on the shallow side and 2000' (690m) on the deep side.
Nice Butts! I wish we could fish them here.
Joe
Quote from: alantani on February 20, 2017, 10:43:35 PM
ok, looks like we've got a destination for another road trip!!!!! ;D
Yeah Boss. Beautiful moutain, medow, and fiord scenery, productive cold water fishery, quaint northern europian buildings and 6ft. Tall blonde women, naked in the sauna(fantasy part). Time to go see the old country!
Putte, that was no Bergman film, but was very well done and entertaining( favorite Bergman movie: Fanny and Alexander, circa 1983?)
Great thread Putte - thanks for sharing!
Cheers, Justin
Quote from: steelfish on February 22, 2017, 05:12:04 PM
Awesome video amigo, really enjoy it
I dont know the brand of the reel but looks pretty solid and sturdy, it should be good for some big habilbuts
This one is a Maxel Sealion OSL08DH and i really like the feel of it, feels like a tank ! Gonna try it out during 3 weeks of halibutfishing this summer ! :)
This is the way i tackle my gear to go "HaliHunting".... I use 1 mm nylon or fluorocarbon as chockleader, about 1 meter long. The joint between the braided line and the chockleader is a powerful swivel and down towards the bait i also use a strong swivel and a splitring of HIGH quality, i´ve seen to many straightened by a big fish. And i check all the knots, the condition of the leader, the hooks after every days fishing. On this lure i also put on a stinger hook, sometimes when the "Butt" is careful and don´t attack the lure they just nibble the tail of it. But it can make catch and release a bit harder, if the fish swallow the bait.