Where the river meets the sea

– productive brackish water environments If you follow a river downstream, sooner or later you will reach the sea. But lots of rivers don’t enter the big salty oceans right away. More often they feed lots of freshwater into deltas, fjords, estuary or other waterscapes. These environments typically contain brackish water, and their salt content […]

Salty gammarus

We are getting close to Solstice and winter is on our doorstep. When the temperatures are dropping my approach to sea trout fishing in saltwater typically means downscaling. Small shrimp or gammarus flies in hot colors are my go-to winter flies. Last winter my friend, Staffan Lindstrøm, sent me a package containing a lot of […]

Sea trout on a sunny afternoon

A short trip to the fjord paid off today. 5 lbs. of silver sea trout grabbed a simple palmer style fly I’d tied just before leaving home. The head cement on the green fly probably wasn’t dry, when the first trout of the day smacked it. It was a hard fighting fish that was in […]