RI7ER JOURNAL POSTS

Avocado, Blue Cheese, Pasta, Fried Veggies, Coffee, Chocolate, Cookies and Fresh Bread .... was a styling dinner on a saturday night whipped up by Scott after stopping at the supermarket in Gjøra.

We have found a cleared section of vegetation on a trail that leads you through riverine forest that is a world of green and wet and ferns, mosses, creepers and dewdrops.

Several fisherman have hiked passed us this afternoon and evening in the search for the big 1. There are big fish in this river with 7/8 kgs being big, records are double the size. Have chatted with a few here today. `Not many fish caught in this area recently´ a young Norwegian and American mention,  although they did kinda like the idea of what we were up to. We have also been asked by a local fisherman for our paperwork to show that our gear and equipment has been disinfected for the parasite - Gyrodactilus - found on several Norwegian rivers that harms the fish.

Fishermen are peaceful and ever patient for a take. Attracting with spinning lures and floating flies, they slowly wade knee/thigh deep up and down the eddy-lines to give their line optimum reach. Slowly moving downriver, a step or 2 after each cast they ensure the whole river is fished. Often alone or an occasional pair will stalk a section for a while, sip on the coffee back at their huts on comfy seats and then wade back in after a chat for some more casts and hope for the big 1.

Rob Wilson