Halibut and salmon adventures

These last days John and Vidar has guided Peter on some more adventures.

Two days ago after having great halibut fishing the day before John decided to explore a new area that he had found on the sea chart. After trying some drifts on different places in this new area without a single bite Peter suddenly hooked a halibut and Peter really had to hold on cause the halibut got totally wild and pulled out line several times, finally they succeeded to get it in the boat and measured it to 137cm (35kilo), only three centimeters shorter than the big one he caught the day before! The next two drift John lost three halibuts after short fights and on the forth Peter hooked a second one that was measured to 132cm (31kilo). both halibuts was carefully released again to grow even bigger

After a long fight this beauty was secured, 137cm!

132cm halibut!

Yesterday John and Vidar brought Peter and Lynda on a day’s guiding for salmon in Laggo river with our new quad bikes. When they came to the river Peter hooked a big salmon on his first cast but lost it after a couple of minutes. A little bit later he hooked another one and this time it stayed on, we later weight it to little bit above 4 kilos! The quadbike driving was great and we really put them to the test more then once.

 on our way from Laggo marina

 and upp to the river and tougher terrain

Peter with the catch of the day, 4 kilo silver!

The nature is so beautiful along laggo river!

Today John brought Peter to another smaller salmon river to try to catch salmon with fly. Also today Peter hooked a salmon almost directly and after 4 great jumps and pulling out a lot of line John secured it with a net. This salmon was weight to 2,4kilos. Later Peter caught two small salmons and they stopped several times along downstream to try casting on salmon that John spotted while Peter was fishing on them but without success. Back at the car they decide to go and look at the bridge at the estuary to see if we could spot any salmon, well there they counted to about 20 salmon that had gathered to rise in the river.

Peter with his 2,4 kilo salmon, caught with flyrod.