What Nordic Safari is all about!

Here are some impressions from a two weeks stay by our dear guest Peter visiting us at Nordic Safari.

 

During this time we have been guiding him every day on just a fraction of what there is to fish up here. Halibut, cod, salmon, trout, arctic char, searun arctic char plaice and many more! This is really out strength, there is always a new species to target and the fishing is more or less in world class.

We will not make this a long text blog, we will let the pictures talk for themselves!

 

 

 

 

148cm (50kg) halibut

138cm halibut.

142cm halibut

(all these three halibuts plus two more was caught during the same day)

 

Last snow is melting away

 

Lake, lake and the barents sea!

Arctic char 1,4 kilo.

Allso a way to put anchor!

Fishing one the last snow.

Going past Cape Nordkyn and Cape Nordkyn Island

Two reindeers on the beach.

A good sized brown trout.

Another brown trout. 

IMAX Dry suit is good for many things.

Vidar the Viking swiming out to the anchored boat

The slate mountains are rough but beautiful

Low clouds are Rolling down Cape Nordkyn!

Peter with a whiting.

And here with a really good sized searun arctic char!

This searunner was 1,5 kilo heavy

And this about same weight.

Trolling and casting at same fjord.

This day he caught seven searunners

(the day Before from land five)

Another one caught on trolling.

A nice cod caught on ultra light gear!

A 1,4 kilos plaice.

Another one with really great colors!

The biggest for the day, 2,3 kilos!

And here the guide Albin with a nice plaice.

 

Fishing salmon in Laggo River

And here with the catch for the day!

A really great cod caught on ultra light gear!

A beautifull brown trout.

Another great trout.

Great arctic char fishing on the ice!

This past week our ice fishing expert Dan has been up on the mountains guiding Peter, a dear guest for many years here at Nordic Safari, Mehamn! As usuall many big and beautiful arctic chars and trouts got caught! Several arctic char and trouts caught during the week passed 1 kilo i weight and the biggest arctic char for the week was a great 2,2 kilos!

Ice fishing on the mountain lakes will keep getting better and better all the way to the end of the snowmobile season which is 20th May.

Peter with a short but extremely fat arctic char!

 

 

And here in company with another beautiful arctic char

 caught at the same time!

 

 

Dan with a unusually strong colored arctic char!

 

 

Kolle with a big one!

Another beautiful arctic char!

Quad bikes!

We are happy to introduce our new adventure Quad Bike Safaris!

We can offer 5 brand new Quad bikes for guided tours, mountain lake fishing for Trout and river fishing for salmon. Two weeks ago we tested them by riding along Laggo river and up on the mountains with our guests with great success. Without any problem we could get to lakes which are really difficult with only walking as transport.

We now have several tours with Quad bikes all from 4 hours sightseeing to several days out in the heart of the wilderness in untouched mountains with unbelievable safari adventures and great lakes for arctic char and trout fishing!

One of our five new quad bikes

On our trailer for transport to the dirt roads

On our way to lake fishing

Great nature along the trails

Salmon fishing in Risfjord river

Early this morning me Peter and Lynda went to Gamvik, located at north east part of Nordkynd where Vidar waited with our big boat Viking Explorer. Today we were going to fish salmon in Risfjord river. We went to Koifjord which is located just southeast of Risfjord where we anchored up Viking Explorer and to walk over to the top of Risfjordriver and fish our way downstream. At the second pool we fished Peter got a strike and after a heavy fight with his light tackle Vidar could net the salmon witch got weight to 3,2 kilos. When we had fished down to the last pool I decided to try my luck with my flyrod. After a couple of minutes I hooked a salmon and after I while Peter brought it in the net, this salmon was weight to 3 kilo. We decided to go back up to the pool where Peter caught his to fish the remaining minutes that was left on our fishing licenses. This time Vidar tried his luck with his flyrod and quite soon he had a fish on. First we thought it was a arctic char which is common in this river but when it came closer I turned out to be a beautiful brown trout about 0,8 kilos. Now it was time to head back to Adventure Camp Mehamn and rest for tomorrows fishing.

In Koifjord on our way to the shore

Peter and Vidar prepares to fish.

Peter with his 3,2 kilos salmon

Me with my 3 kilos salmon.

Vidar and his beautilful brown trout.

Koifjord is really a sight for the eye!

Arctic char fishing with quad bike

These last two days Vidar and John have guided Peter and Lynda on freshwater fishing after arctic char and brown trout. We trailed 4 of our new quad bikes with to a small road that’s going long in to the mountains. We had quite tuff weather yesterday, it was times when it not only was windy but also snowed. We didn’t think that much about the bad weather when it was so fun to ride the quad bikes and the fishing turn out to be really good. In the end of the day we had caught 16 trouts in two different lakes. Today the weather was better and so was the fishing for arctic char, Peter did as he always does and hooks a char at his second cast. During the next 4 hours of fishing peter caught another 5 arctic chars and John one. Then it was time to head back to Adventure Camp Mehamn, but no sad faces to leave the good fishing when we had 30 minutes of quad bike riding ahead of us!

Vidar, Lynda and Peter on their quad bikes.

bad weather but happy fishermen!

Back at Adventure Camp Mehamn

 with the catch of the day.

Peter with his first arctic char this day

John with his acrctic char

Peter with the biggest char for the day