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Gurnards very similar to our tub gurnards were another species I particularly remember, plus a lot of
problems with blue sharks snatching hooked fish from the lines at the surface, which I wanted to try
for, but nobody else wanted anywhere near the boat.
NORWAY
On more than an odd occasion, I've been very lucky in my angling life in having got to fish some of the
best venues in the world while they were still at the top of their game. Often that doesn't last for long,
so when you find one, you need to be in there quick. Norway however is probably the exception here
in that I was there back towards the start of it all, and now ten years on, it's still just as good ever.
Possibly dare I say it, even better.
Not so much the quality of the fishing, which the Norwegians not being members of the EU, and with
sensible fishery management policies, have managed to keep good. More a case of knowledge building
by visiting anglers, both in turning up new potentials and learning how better to fish the ones they
already know, which if the quality of that potential remains as high as it has, is bound to follow on like
putting one foot in front of the other.
As such, the long awaited first ever rod caught hundred pound plus cod caught by German tackle
manufacturer Michael Eisele came in 2013. The commercial hand-liners had already seen fish of that
size on several occasions previously, so it was only a matter of time. Other species which thrive and
grow big in Norwegian waters are coalfish, halibut, torsk, haddock, wolf fish, and plaice.
Much of the best fishing takes place at latitudes well up beyond the Arctic circle. Lyngen Fjord and
some of the other camps in the Tromso area, which are the main producers, are almost two hundred
miles up into the Arctic.
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