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The week stared off with a great session on beat E7 for Mike and his two sons Ryan and Kevin - the Knowles family, visiting from America. After 1 hour of fishing Ryan and Kevin where both into a fish at the same time! While Kevin landed his first Atlantic salmon of about 6kg, Ryan was in the middle of fighting a really big fish – sadly the fish came off after a 25 min fight. It was a really big one, but these things happen ...

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Earlier this season we had our friends at InWaders Media, Frederik Lorentzen and Jan Delaporte come and shoot a beautiful short film on our waters, and we wanted to share it with you all. We hope you enjoy watching it: ...

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Week 29 because of the unusually low water, was less productive than a typical week 29 is supposed to be. The water continued to drop to a very low level and the fish have not been active at all. Since the river has not been rising for weeks, it seems as though the salmon in the pools have not been in any mood to take any flies ...

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This week our French guest and friend Fabrice Bergues returned with his large group of French fishermen. The week started off with a great session for Francois Deloup who was able to catch 3 salmon on his first day, 2 of them he caught at Langøy (Beat B1) and the 3rd at Tilseth Pool (C2). The following morning, after the river rose a bit overnight, Fabrice fished Beat B1 and was able to land huge salmon of 120cm and estimated to weigh about 18,5kg  - what a fish! Not only Fabrice’s largest salmon to date, this is the biggest fish landed at NFC so far this season!

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Week 27 started out promising with a little rise of the water level. NFC regular guest from Germany, Werner Brinker started out the week fishing beat E7 and caught a great fish of 10,3kg (22. 7lbs)! On Beat B1 it was our Norwegian guest Stein Erik Lid who started his week with a grilse of 2,5kg ...

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The water level was constantly dropping during the past week. The beginning of the week still offered consistently good fishing with several very big fish caught. ...

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Week 25 started as good as week 24 ended- the great fishing continued. Manfred Raguse caught the first fish of week. Manfred was able to catch and release a big fish of about 12,5kg on Beat C2 ...

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The week started off with a water level of about 60kbm at Gaulfossen, which we consider to be a regular summer water level, but is quite low for this time of the season. But this water level is great for most of our pools and fish are spread out, which means you have a good chance to catch fish on any beat right now, which is great fun! The week started with a salmon on our E-Beats, caught by regular Austrian guest Franz Hochecker – a nice fish of about 11kg.

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The Gaula as well as many other Norwegian rivers have had a great start to the salmon season 2016 so far. Our fishermen have experienced a great season start, with a lot of nice fish landed at NFC since our last update.   ...

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The conditions right now are perfect! The water is constantly dropping, the water temperature is already about 9 °C and the fishing right now on the lower Gaula is very good. The fish seem to be coming in groups, so it’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time, but if you hit it – your “salmon heaven” awaits! ...

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During the afternoon of June 1st, Giulio Righini was able to land his first Gaula salmon which was also his first salmon ever! Congratulations Giulio! Our 2nd fish of the season was caught on Beat L1.

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After preparing all our beats and the Lodge for the coming season we finally got started last night. Due to snow melt the water level rose quite a bit up to 399 kbm  at the Gaulfossen gauge. But already short after midnight some fish have been caught on the lower river – it looks like a good start as on the whole lower river are caught a good number of fish in good sizes already ...

In just about a month’s time, the 2016 season will be under way. All signs point toward 2016 being a “big fish“ year.  Due to the high number of medium-sized fish we saw last year in the river, we’re expecting many of the returning fish will be larger than average size ...

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What is in store for 2016? We all have high hopes! 

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After a summer of high water levels, the last two weeks of the season brought low water combined with high heat. The fishing was challenging with the Gaulfossen gauge reading 7m ³. Nevertheless, our guests managed to catch a few fish ...

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We experienced a great week with more than 30 fish landed and many more lost. Considering we only had a small number of rods fishing this past week, , we caught a good number of fish, including some really nice ones! 

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The fishing the last 10 days has been remained decent. Water levels are more or less on a medium level all the time and have yet to drop very low.  We are catching still fish in all sizes including very big ones, as displayed by Bernd Kuleisa’s fish from Beat B1 – a big male – about 12,5kg ...

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The fishing last week was characterized by non-stop changing water levels, which meant the fishing was not always easy as the salmon never really seemed to settle down into the pools and did not take the fly aggressively.   ...

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Week 29 started off a bit slower than the week before, but we still experienced another exiting fishing —including some very big fish! For example, this big fish of about 13,5kg which was landed below our Lodge by "Big" Per Arneberg (at the age of 84!).

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Week 28 turned out to be the best week of the season so far. We have experienced Gaula fishing at its best and our fishermen and women seem to have had a great time. The week’s conditions started off with relatively cold weather and still high water, but this did not affect fishing negatively ...

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Week 27 started well on our Lundamo Beat L1, where regular guest, Hans E. Wolff started the week with a nice fish.

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Week 26 turned out to be good week on NFC waters. A great group of American anglers visited us for the first time and we were able to land some nice salmon included some big and fat fish! So far this season each week seems to start off with high water - and so did this past week as well. Sunday started off quite slowly - but Monday, the “ice broke” as the first fish of the week were landed ...

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