Six Magic Nights on the Alta

[@mikekuczynski1552]

What a beautiful river and the gorge is spectacular . It appears the fishing was good but not as good as in the past . I like watching tiers using there own patters with such confidence and catching these magnificent fish . I know for myself it’s very rewarding to take the fly I tied out of the fishes mouth and let it go it somehow feels more rewarding . The sad part as you discussed is this could all be a thing of the past within twenty years and no one would notice but us the fishermen . I guess all we can do is keep fighting for our rivers and the fish that occupy them . In the mean time let’s pour a big whiskey and contemplate life as we know it with our friend and see how we might help put the world back on track . Happy Trails

[@zymbotictoot]

You fish waters that most of us can only dream of. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@tomgwl65]

Nice video, good company and all you long for, and an important message. Thanks

[@Eckyredtheunready]

Excellent video that contains an important message......keep up the good fight!

[@lambertsaldi1550]

Wow awesome guys Awesome Mikael and the guys with you keep up the Great fight to save the Fish Thank you !! 👍👍 The Vermonter

[@PaulConnor100]

That is a great looking pool... Nice fish Mikael.

[@JohanGarde-yt6ed]

Glömde säga att jag gillar alla dina filmer! Keep them coming

[@craigf3624]

A message from ALASKA: Stop fish farming, preserve wild salmon, and practice catch-and-release for our children and grand children.

[@fredblogsmac.5697]

Its the mass decline of insects causing the decline. Not fish farming . Not that im a fish farm surporter. But we need to repaire the damage to the insects the main food of young wild salmon and trout

[@fredblogsmac.5697]

@@gppgpz Bob Kiness restocked the river Carrion, all his fish he put in the river were decimated, except smolts, they swam through all the salmon farms on the west coast of Scotland ( hundred,s if not thousands of them ) to get to their feeding grounds and returned to a figure of about 17.5 p cent, look it up your self

[@fredblogsmac.5697]

@@gppgpz our wild trout are gone too, they disappeared at the same time and the same rate as the salomon, here,s a few vids i took of our remote locks that used to be stuffed with wild trout, and these lochs are not fished often as there thousands of lochs all around here in North Scotland kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4DXY4eZZq91o9U kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqPLgIKLht2ngqs kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHm6m4yLYphneK8 all these lochs are now sterile, a near-total wipeout of wild trout all very close to where our your salmon are all killed by the mass decline of the insects..

[@fredblogsmac.5697]

@@gppgpz yes i know some of those lochs are highly acaline

[@zachdee4917]

I wish you would show the salmon taking the fly. That is the best part.

[@michaelkaniecki1998]

Wonderful

[@pgbrusdal2023]

Great video. You should come visit the mighty Rauma river!

[@JohanGarde-yt6ed]

Så jäkla grymt! Fick en öring (insjö)på 1.5kg i går upp tärna fjällen! 6an spö 9fot 016 tafs! Min bästa fisk hitels🙂

[@marco1507able]

Magic!

[@jeanjaltsten7549]

Schysst ställe!

[@stigandersson8161]

Do you like too Fish Mikael 😄😄😄👍

[@janikiviniemi9805]

Only famous locals and rich gets to fish that river so of course it's good fishing there ☺️

[@frodinflies]

not really true... there is a lottery.. get on it and there is a chance!

[@gaigii]

@@frodinflies no, only the rich ones get them to.. been in the lotery for 20 years.. only lords that gets cards

[@RemiFreeride]

@@gaigii All the lists are public, so that´s just bull… but there´s 14-1600 competing for the 75 non-local cards. Aprox 16-18% chanse for the locals in the big lottery; 4000+ competing for 650+ cards

[@petervanderbeek9518]

This is for the happy few

[@frodinflies]

Get on the lottery - every one have a chance to fish Alta!

[@RemiFreeride]

As he say, there is a lottery for 75 3days places/licences for non-local. Aprox 15-1600 buy tickets for this lottery. Aprox 4000 locals participates in the lottery for 700 licences, and around 170 of the land owners share 140 licences in a separate lottery.

[@prasttorparen]

Du har aldrig uppfattat detta med catch and realesed som djurplågeri?

[@santoshi1259]

These videos are inspirational. Thank you. Pls tell me name of the fishing reel you use. Thanks from UK

[@frodinflies]

Yhee... use my own design. SALAR REELS ... limited edition series but i think there are a few left...

[@hansson3337]

Great video! What rods did you use? And what line? Best regards

[@frodinflies]

Hi Now i fish my own SALAR S2 ... soon to be released. lines i use next cast..

[@hansson3337]

@@frodinflies Okey nice, length on the rods you where fishing?

[@frodinflies]

@@hansson3337 the series is 15-14- 12,6 and a 10 fort 8 .. on the Alta I am on 15 and 14

[@aaronmeyler8838]

@@frodinflies is it the salarfinder 45 you use Mikael? Congratulations on a fantastic trip.

[@finnmarkloops3042]

Har du fiskat nå i smålakelvarna här i Finnmark?

[@frodinflies]

fiskat några av dem..Lakselva, Stabbur och ett par till..

[@finnmarkloops3042]

@@frodinflies oki 👍 Gillar själv o fiska i dom minsta älvarna..

[@njalkaavik1941]

Great film, personally made a choice 10 years ago and stopped Salmon fishing after some tragic seasons in my local river. Obvious for me there is no surplus of wild salmon for riverfishers or local seanetfishers too harvest. There is no joy in it for me to catch a fish when the numbers of fish is so low. Of course the fishfarming industry is to blame, although they saved the salmon back in the eighties when they brought cheap salmon to everybody and thus ended the economic base for driftnetfishing witch was the worst threat at that time. Makes me sad seeing the state of every river in Norway..Tananumbers ar just horribel..

[@CONEHEADDK]

Nice to see someone, who has the reel handle on the right(meaning correct) side of the rod. Don't think I've ever met one irl, but I rarely met any fly fishers, where I used to fish, so the odds were against it that way too.

[@CONEHEADDK]

@Bannsider I have learned more or less all I know from books and trial and error. I've been through Hugh Falckus' Salmon fishing and his Sea trout fishing, and also Jan Grunwalds books and many others I don't recall. My, very well thought through, reasons for the right (out side) hand are, you get less line hooking up on the handle (even though that probably isn't something, that happens often, if you don't ring up the shooting line in your intake hand, as I learned to, but rarely do any more) I have seen at least once, how the reel handle hooks into a pocket or something, stops the reel, and the fish breaks the line. That can't happen, if the handle is pointing away from the angler. An other thing is, that if you should end up having to reel in a lot of line, you will probably be faster (try to reel in 100 meters with a fly reel - I timed it once many years back, and it was crazy long time) and last longer with the hand, that you use 90-99% of the time. And when landing the fish, I also prefere to use my best hand for that. I was very nerdy about fly fishing, back when I went over to "fly only", and I chose to modify reels to oposite side drag and other (secret) things - I was that sure of my choices, and still am. I do agree very much with the keeping it simple, and have all I need in a medium size fanny bag, and know exactly what is where. And also have made tests on lines and knots aso (same hook in both ends and different knots aso) - never leave anything up to chance, that didn't have to be. You too.

[@wonderwatch2239]

The right side is the old side, derives from trout fishing, tried to switch side once, big f..k up playing a 6-7 kg salmon on a single hand rod😷 switched back to left hand retrieve right away, much better

[@mbal4052]

@@CONEHEADDK you’ve been through all that and you still got it wrong? 😂

[@CONEHEADDK]

@@mbal4052 Nope - it works absolutly perfectly.!

[@mbal4052]

@@CONEHEADDK and the left side works perfectly for me. You trying to objectively argue something subjective 😉

[@davidgray3321]

I know this will be unpopular but I disagree with catch and release for salmon, if there are so few give up fishing. It’s ok for trout you can bundle them into the net fast but that first salmon was knackered. A Gillie on the Tay said that when they introduced catch and release the numbers of baggots went up , they caught lots of salmon in the year after they should and failed to spawn. I realise people want to keep the jobs and there is tackle people want to sell, but the answers is to take measures that will bring back the fish in good numbers like closing fish farms, not catch and release. I also think it’s rather cruel to watch a fish that is so exhausted “recovering”. It’s crap basically, sorry but that’s the truth. All the best from the U.K.

[@mrsdelish2679]

If C&R is done correctly the death rate is 7% according to research by NINA (Norwegian Institute for Nature research ) www.nina.no/gjenutsetting Not sure if there is a English version, but google translate or such probably works.

[@hesterdendy]

No, it isn't the truth, and the science doesn't support your anecdotally based claims. Sorry.

[@davidgray3321]

@@hesterdendy ok carry on doing the wrong things like fish farming and watch your salmon die out, I went to Norway 25 years ago and it’s been down hill ever since, how is that for your science? Norway like Scotland has completely screwed up. Face the facts, are you telling me catch and release is the answers, your parents generation didn’t do that and there were lots of salmon. You need to start thinking harder about the salmons decline, and taking action that really is needed. Or does Norway just make too much money out of fish farming for that?

[@hesterdendy]

@@davidgray3321 Sorry, I should have been more specific, I guess. Probably we agree on salmon ocean farming. However catch & release is proven effective. That is the truth.

[@wonderwatch2239]

We might eventually get used to fishing with a hook les flies, if we want to keep fishing. The term ‘ toying with an animal’ doesn’t sound good, and that is actually what we are doing, fighting the salmon to release it back… I would keep fishing salmon, just for the thrilling adrenaline rush of the Take! And of course all the fantastic things around, fishing salmon in Norway.