July 28, 2014, 11:22 a.m.
All last week has been very hot and the water level kept on dropping constantly to a very low level, even below 10m³ at the Gaulfossen. As well water temperatures went up to over 20 °C which means that salmon fishing gets very difficult. Despite these bad conditions our fishermen still caught some fish, lost several more and had some action ...
July 21, 2014, 1:15 p.m.
Week 29 started with a nice water level over 50m 3
July 12, 2014, 1:30 p.m.
This week started with hot air temperatures up to 30°C and this unusually warm weather has continued all week. Despite the hot summer conditions with its hot air and warm water the fishing has been improved quite a bit. All our guest this week have caught fish ...
July 7, 2014, 12:51 p.m.
While water levels were constantly dropping and water and weather conditions were actually very good, we had a slow start into week 27 – we had a few lost fish and our Swiss guest Gerardo Zappa was able to catch and release a grilse on Beat B1. But things should change by middle of the week. Suddenly a good run of fresh fish arrived on our lower Beats ...
July 1, 2014, 3:16 p.m.
The water level constantly dropped during last week. The higher water certainly made the fish moving and so our fishermen were able to land some nice fish. ...
June 23, 2014, 8:54 p.m.
After a week of miserable weather and very cold temperatures, the new week started off with a flood due to heavy rainfall. The river rose up to over 500 m³ at the Gaulfossen on Sunday afternoon and the river looked almost unfishable, but we had 2 clients from the Netherlands who were very eager to get out, no matter what, just to do some casts down here at our Lodge Pool – which turned out to be a very good decision! After only an hour of fishing Vincent Bekke was able to hook a good fish, and after an exiting fight he was able to release his first salmon! Congratulations Vincent!
...June 16, 2014, 2:28 p.m.
After the high water in the beginning of last week the fishing did not pick up as we hoped it would. Even though we had rather good conditions the big run did not arrive. Finally on Thursday we got reports that suddenly a good number of fish were running through the lower river and that some fish had been caught down there ...
June 9, 2014, 4:16 p.m.
June 1, 2014, 3:19 p.m.
After a nice welcome dinner and a celebration of the season opening with a big bonfire just below our new Lodge with all our guests and staff, the Gaula season 2014 finally started. ...
May 11, 2014, 6:09 a.m.
It’s great to be back on the Gaula and we are very excited about the new NFC Lodge and the 2014 season! We are looking forward to welcoming all of you in the coming months!
March 3, 2014, 10:22 p.m.
While the salmon season is coming closer and closer, the construction of the new NFC Lodge accommodation wing is in full swing! The construction planning began in September and already now we can see that the project is well in time for the season start on the 1st of June 2014.
...Dec. 13, 2013, 4:56 p.m.
From all of us at NFC we would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
Nov. 20, 2013, 6:26 p.m.
First of all we would like to thank all supporters and guests for the past season 2013!
Sept. 13, 2013, 8:55 p.m.
During the last two weeks of the season the fishing remained challenging compared to what we had hoped for- even though the conditions were not too bad. We had hoped that after the flood in week 33 that a good number of fresh fish would run the river, and although some fresh fish were seen and caught, no great numbers showed up. Our conclusion was similar to may rivers not only in Norway, but throughout the Atlantic Salmon world- the runs were simply not as strong as we had all expected ...
Aug. 22, 2013, 3:05 p.m.
On Sunday evening at our weekly dinner and start meeting we were not sure if the weather forecast was correct. There were prospected to fall 148mm of rain within 48 hours! This would have meant a huge flood. We prepared ourselves and brought in all our shelters and benches from the river banks on Monday morning and waited to see what would happen ...
Aug. 11, 2013, 11:16 p.m.
The fishing in week 32 continued to be quite good on the NFC beats. The average size has not been as high but several good fish have been caught during the last days. ...
Aug. 5, 2013, 12:51 a.m.
The week 31 started with a lower water level, but due to the rise in the water level last week there were a few fresh fish running. The lower water level was actually perfect to start for our salmon fishing course, which was taking place this week with 7 new salmon fishermen. Bernd Kuleisa from Germany has been hosting a course for many years on the NFC waters, mostly with German clients ...
July 23, 2013, 12:38 a.m.
On Saturday evening it began to rain heavily and the river rose quite a bit by Sunday when our new week started. Due to constant rainfalls the river continued rising until Tuesday evening when it finally began to stabilize. Regardless, during the rising water a few fish were caught for example on Beat C2 a “bigger” grilse of 3,3kg was landed by Robert Heintschel from Austria and a couple of other grilse at our Beat BS1 were caught our Swedish group led by Mikael Tholin ...
July 14, 2013, 1:47 p.m.
The fishing has continued to be more difficult than usual. The reasons for this rather slow season all over Norway cannot be easily explained and it seems even scientists have not a concluded an explanation yet- but Gaula is not the only watershed which has experienced a slow season. ...
June 28, 2013, 6:39 p.m.
Following the flood this past week, we had expected a boost in the fishing as new fish enter into the river system, but the fishing did not picked up the way we had hoped. But this is not just on our beats, the fishing on the whole river as well as on neighbouring rivers (and actually in many rivers throughout Norway) has not been good. But the test-net used for tagging fish to track them, done by NINA (Norsk Institut for Naturforskning) in the outer fjord areas had a good number of fish caught lately ...
June 20, 2013, 2:41 p.m.
The fishing is still pretty slow in light of the relatively good conditions all season long and our high hopes at the beginning of the season. It seems to be a slow season start all over Norway and even in Russia the opening was slow. This may be caused by the long winter which kept the fjord and the sea temperature cold for a long time, which may be the reason why the salmon have not begun to run the up the rivers ...
June 17, 2013, 5:21 p.m.
Just when the water was about to finally drop to a perfect level and was clearing up we got a lot of rain and another flood made fishing very tough again. Finally the weather forecast is looking promising, the river is dropping quickly and the fist fish have been landed already.
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