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TR: Trip to Ransaran Creek part I
(If you don't feel like clicking on all the links for the pictures just go
to the website below and click on TR:s for the web version) Trip to Ransaran Creek part I It has been an eventful summer to say the least. Having had the privilege to live from a parachute agreement, and having just about as much spare time as a man can have at the age of 37, I've been prioritizing fly-fishing. Normally fishing locally as much as I can and spending one week in or near the mountains changed to fishing a little less in the waters close to home and spending six weeks in the mountain area. This in turn resulting in the fact that I have six half written TRs with pictures in my computer. Here comes the first that I've managed to finalize. It was two weeks before midsummer when my friend Andreas called me with a, to say the least, fantastic story. There was no mistaking that there might just be some substance to what he was telling me, at least judging by his enthusiasm. He wanted us to get up at 3 am Monday next week in order to be on our way to Saxnas Village in the municipality of Vilhelmina about 450 kilometers (279 miles) west to fish Ransaran creek for a day and a night and then return back home. It sounded a really crazy idea but his enthusiastic story about a trip that he had made a week earlier tore down any resistance I had and I agreed to join him on the next trip. Most of the tiredness that I'd been feeling that morning was washed away by an early breakfast in a cafeŽ in the small town of Vilhelmina about 150 kilometers east of our destination. A quick stop at a local tackle shop for some refilling of, ... ehh ... well I didn't really need anything but have yet to visit a tackle shop without buying at least something, and we were on our way to Saxnas. Saxnas village will, by the way, host the world fly-fishing championships 2004, which will be the second time in three years that this event will be held in northern Sweden. Ransaran creek is a long mountain creek famous for its large Arctic char and its trout. We were to fish the trophy stretch located high up the lower part of the creek, a stretch that is under quota restrictions allowing 8 persons to fish every 24 hours. Andreas had called Saxnasgarden Mountain resort a week ahead to book our fishing permits, which this early in the season are fairly easy to get. Upon arrival at Saxnasgarden we had lunch in their restaurant enjoying the fabulous scenery through large panorama windows while eating. Looking out over the lake below we realized that weather conditions weren't perhaps the best we could've wished for. Although there was no rain and some sunshine coming through the clouds it was somewhat windy, but we reasoned that in the creek valley it might not be that bad. Picking up our permits at the newly opened fishing center in the same building as the resort I learnt that the bag limit was one fish and the minimum size 45 cm (18 inches). Hell, I thought they were joking since I had only caught one Arctic char that big before and know of just about one place where you can find that many that you might have a chance at catching one, and this wasn't it. http://biphome.spray.se/bo_lindfors/...n_creek_1d.jpg Once we arrived at the creek it was to our dismay a bit too windy to be good, it did calm down during the night though. We were going to fish the two calmer stretches at the top of the lower stretch, the quotation stretches. I tackled my ten foot three piece six weight Sage RPL+ with a heavy caddis nymph, I call it the **** rod, not because it is all that ****ty to throw with, quite the opposite, but it is ****ty to fish with. http://biphome.spray.se/bo_lindfors/...n_creek_1a.jpg The water of this creek has what is the characteristically crystal clear water of the mountains, this in turn cause the fish to be vary of any motion along the shoreline. The calmer stretches that we fished were about 40 - 80 meters wide, this says very little about the creek's normal size at about 15 meters wide but knowing this gives you a hint on how very slow flowing this stretch is. Fish were taking heavy nymphs and nothing else, I reckon it was the weather that made it impossible to catch fish on anything other than these nymphs, and we did catch fish =). http://biphome.spray.se/bo_lindfors/...n_creek_1g.jpg Two larger Arctic char and one nice brown trout were caught and released, the biggest weighing almost 3kg (lb6). It is a bit special to go fishing this far north and so close to midsummer with the 24 hour daylight and to cut the story short we kind of forgot time. What happened was that when we finally got home it was 4 am 25 hours later. I decided there and then that I would not drive up there again unless I could bring my tent. I did go there again and had the fishing of a lifetime but I will save that story and those pictures for another TR, namely part two. http://biphome.spray.se/bo_lindfors/...n_creek_1e.jpg Viewing the pictures you will find that there was still snow on the mountain sides, but what really surprised me was that when we returned 4 weeks later, in the beginning of July the snow was still present. I'm sorry to say that I only remembered to take pictures of the surroundings once it got dark, uhmm.... well it was midnight anyway. http://biphome.spray.se/bo_lindfors/...n_creek_1i.jpg http://biphome.spray.se/bo_lindfors/...n_creek_1c.jpg http://biphome.spray.se/bo_lindfors/...n_creek_1f.jpg -- / Roger Daytime engineer Lifetime flyfisherman If you feel like it, visit http://biphome.spray.se/angler/ for info on flyfishing in northern Sweden, Lapland |
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TR: Trip to Ransaran Creek part I
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Roger Ohlund wrote:
He wanted us to get up at 3 am Monday next week in order to be on our way to Saxnas Village in the municipality of Vilhelmina about 450 kilometers (279 miles) west to fish Ransaran creek for a day and a night and then return back home. It sounded a really crazy idea but his enthusiastic story about a trip that he had made a week earlier tore down any resistance I had and I agreed to join him on the next trip. Last Saturday I awoke at 2 AM a drove 7 hours to reach the mountains of central California. Fishing was OK. That's the price southern Californians have to pay in order to reach trout water. only remembered to take pictures of the surroundings once it got dark, uhmm.... well it was midnight anyway. Very nice pics & TR. Thanks. Mu |
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