Lapland clave 2004

"Jarmo Hurri" wrote in message
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riverman Ahh, same general region. I was thinking of the
riverman Stabbursdalen, near Lakselv.

Stabburselva is truly a gorgeous river, maybe the most beautiful river
I have ever fished. I was there in 2000 for one day, but did not catch
anything. My friend caught his first salmon there on that day,
though. Fishing the lower parts of the river is fairly expensive - in
2000 it was 40 euros per day.

Anadromous fish can not reach the upper sections of the river
- I guess there is an unpassable waterfall somewhere up the river. The
upper parts of the river are supposed to be even more beautiful - from
what I've heard, it seems that there is a gorgeous valley there
surrounded by mountains from all sides. This region was opened to
public fishing, IIRC, two years ago. This is also on my list of places
to see, but maybe not this year.

Lauren and I passed by there on our drive around Lapland two years ago. We
didn't have any real roadtrip strategies..we just followed the most
interesting looking roads as we worked our way northwards and enjoyed the
countryside. On our way towards Nordkaap, we were getting tired and decided
to stop at a campground-ish area for a food shop and a shower, and there was
this little store and some tents by a stream, so we pulled in. The pictures
on the wall in the store of those 50kg salmon got my attention, so I asked
the girl (15-16 yo) at the counter how the fishing was in the river. It was
very low water: the gravel bar at the mouth almost closed it off from the
sea. She said that folks hiked upstream to a big lake where there were some
real lunkers. Since I was a complete novice fly fisherman, I was fishing
without permits (I was really just practicing casting, as I had absolutely
no chance of really catching anything), so I hiked upstream that night about
10 km to see what it was like. Of course, not only did I not catch anything,
I never even got a strike or even saw a rise. BUT, it was the most magical,
beautiful wilderness hike I ever did...I stayed out all night (24 hour
daylight) and just enjoyed the hell out of it. Now that I know more about
flyfishing, I think of going back there all the time. It lacks the masses of
the Teno and the circus-like atmosphere of the Altaelva. Sort of like a
mom-and-pop backyard river with 2 meter salmon in it. But with my better
skills, of course I'll buy the permits this time.

--riverman

"Jarmo Hurri" wrote in message
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Stabburselva is truly a gorgeous river, maybe the most beautiful river
I have ever fished......



Somewhere in this thread I saw a post from Asadi in which he expressed an
interest in attending this event. For God's sake, in the name of all that
is decent, do NOT let the boy near this river!

Wolfgang

"Sandy" wrote in message
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Roger Ohlund wrote:
"asadi" wrote in message
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Hey Rog, how much for a decent, but not fancy hotel and a steak
dinner at a good restaurant in Stockholm or Umea?


Hotel.....I'll try and find out for you.
Steak......from US$12 and up.....

/Roger

This might help.

http://www.hotelsswedenonline.com/

Thanks Sandy, I was looking for something similar to present to asadi.

/Roger
Don't let £600 and SWMBO scare you........

"Jarmo Hurri" wrote in message
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Now what will be really interesting is to try to catch some
charr. Any special tips for this mysterious but delicious fish?

Roger Ah, now there's a question for the masters of this pastime
Roger called fly fishing. As you know I plan to hold a mini clave at
Roger Ransaran creek, this is where you will be measured and judged
Roger ;-)

Yes, I remember this plan very well with great pleasure. :-) Hmm, I
tried to look through my files, but I couldn't find the planned date
for this event. Was it right after midsummer (or before it)? I've got
to secure the home front well ahead.

Right after midsummer.

/Roger

"Jarmo Hurri" wrote in message
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Now what will be really interesting is to try to catch some
charr. Any special tips for this mysterious but delicious fish?

Roger Ah, now there's a question for the masters of this pastime
Roger called fly fishing. As you know I plan to hold a mini clave at
Roger Ransaran creek, this is where you will be measured and judged
Roger ;-)

Yes, I remember this plan very well with great pleasure. :-) Hmm, I
tried to look through my files, but I couldn't find the planned date
for this event. Was it right after midsummer (or before it)? I've got
to secure the home front well ahead.

Anyway, lo and behold, I picked up the newest copy of "Flugfiske i
Norden" today, and found in it an article with title "Röding in
Ransarån". What a coincidence! I can see why the river will be a
really nice place to pay a visit. :-) I don't know how popular the
creek has been so far, but it might very well see quite a few anglers
next year - I guess this type of articles tend to create some
additional activity.


Yes, but the stretch only allows 10 fishermen per day and I planned on
booking 10 for 48 hours.
The article was from the exact same spot where I caught my five Arctic char
on the last trip (all but one exceeding lb2). The inlet in the upper calm
stretch that the author writes about was where we had pitched our tent. You
can see more pictures from the area in the two Ransaran trip reports on the
web site, unless you already read them..
I'll get back with more info on this mini clave in May.

/Roger

riverman Sort of like a mom-and-pop backyard river with 2 meter
riverman salmon in it.

Exactly.

In summer 2000 when I was fishing the river there was a heatwave in
the Lappland area. The temperature was something like +25C in the
middle of the night.

We started fishing some time in the afternoon. The place where we
started fishing was a nice island in the middle of the stream. I could
have stayed on this island the whole week! A gorgeous spot, and
because the river is not too massive, you can see the salmon swimming
up the river. Big salmon.

There were two of us on the island, and we started to fish one side of
it so that the other guy waded slowly downstream after me. There was a
really good looking spot on the other side of the stream, and I cast
there a couple of times, but nothing happened. I went to my friend and
showed him the good spot. He landed his first ever salmon on his
second cast to the spot: a silvery 5lb grilse. And this was on the
first day of our trip. Mind you, the next salmon we caught was on the
_last_ day of our 14-day trip, so hooking those salmon can be quite a
bit of work...

Anyway, whereas the other guys went to sleep some time during the
night, I stayed up until the morning. The combination of 25C and the
neoprene waders I had at that time added an extra twist. I think I
sweated at least five liters during the night. But I really did not
even notice it before I returned to the camp and poured those five
liters out of the waders... And no, the waders did not leak, and
neither did I. ;-)

--
Jarmo Hurri

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"Mike Connor" Mike-Connor wrote in message
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It looks like a massive detour though, so it is perhaps not such a good
idea
after all. If I drove directly to Umea, then I would cut out some ferry
costs, and the total distance would be about 1500 km.

If I drove via Helsinki, then we have to make a big dogleg back into
Sweden,
and this might put the distance up to as much as 2500 km. I would of
course
prefer to avoid that.


Mike,

I understand your point. 1000 km forth and back is of course much unless
you really want to visit Finland and possibly see some fishing spots here.

No I am waiting for some other(s) to join me and share the trip and cost
with me.

Now that I have been loking the maps of the area, it seems that there is
only
about 20 km for walking to get to the cabin reserved for us. Am I right,
Roger?
This could be another oportunity to make the clave become true at reasonable
cost.
But I still am looking forward to see that I could drive with someone else
from here
to Adolfstrom village.

OsmoJ

"Osmo Jauhiainen" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I understand your point. 1000 km forth and back is of course much unless
you really want to visit Finland and possibly see some fishing spots here.

No I am waiting for some other(s) to join me and share the trip and cost
with me.

Now that I have been loking the maps of the area, it seems that there is
only
about 20 km for walking to get to the cabin reserved for us. Am I right,
Roger?
This could be another oportunity to make the clave become true at
reasonable
cost.
But I still am looking forward to see that I could drive with someone else
from here
to Adolfstrom village.

OsmoJ


Oh I have not written it off. Just needs thinking about. After all, I have
to do something or other!

Time is not the problem, but I have to be careful with my budget. We have
plenty of time to discuss it.

TL
MC