Tag: cod

12^th July

Good weather, about 18 degrees.
Today the weather was so nice so Johan got the idea to walk up the lowest part of Offersöy-kammen, with the plan of fishing in the afternoon.

Here it is worth mentioning that while Johan jumps up the mountains like a gazelle and has no fear at all for heights, I am the opposite and can feel dizzy from climbing the first step of a ladder.
As Johan had already been up to the highest point of Offersöy-kammen before he has seen there is a lake at the lowest part of the mountain, and that it was not at all as steep to go up that way, and that it might fit me. And as I have promised myself to work on my height phobia as I really like mountains and also would like to enjoy them from the top and not only from the below, I agreed to the trip.

We took the car to the opening of the Napp tunnel, where there is a parking lot for people trekking the mountain.
Started the walk, and the path was a fit for me. High, but not steep. We could see the Nappstraumen and Napp mountain very well from the first height.

What we also saw, was that this path didn’t look like going uphills so much, but more following the shore. The lake, as Johan remembered it, was on the top of another hill, much further away. We decided to go back so we wouldn’t be so late for the fishing, and make this walk another day. Johan went up the second height to see the best way of getting to the lake hill from there, for later.

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When I came back to the parking lot I was still waiting for Johan. Suddenly I saw a board with a map hidden in the green. It was not possible to get close enough to see the maps clearly, but the text I could read. It told that this path leads around the Offersöy-kammen mountain and takes 2-5 hours considering if the people are bold enough to go up to Offersöy-kammen or not. It passes some fishing villages on the way well worth seeing. The trip is considered easy-moderate. Seems like a really nice trip to make a sunny day with a backpack as support!

On the way home with the car Johan spots a falcon flying above some rorbus, while I only saw a medium size bird with red coloured breast flying over the car. Perhaps the falcon?

We started fishing in the afternoon at 5 pm.
Found a good place to fish close to the spot which is called ”35” at the north side of Nappstraumen.
The current was quite strong so we had to go back to the start position several times. Almost every drift we had quite big fish biting the Swedish jig and other jigs.
It was also several different fish in the area, so it added an extra excitement to what fish we were pulling up whenever we got something. When we had 3 big saithes (sej) at about 5-6 kilos, 2 big cods at 5-6 kilos and 1 tusk (lubb), we were heading back to Skreda at about 10 o’ clock.
Ate a really late dinner in the midnight sun, which is still around.