May- Arctic Norway

Our long awaited trip to Norway had arrived. The planning had been done as had the homework as well as lots of spending. The crew was Les, Cammy, Jason and me. The area of our visit was the island of Vannoy around 40 miles north of Tromso. This was my fifth visit to Norway and my third to this area. High up in the Arctic Circle it had been pretty much daylight 24 hours for around 3 weeks. It was the remainder of the teams first visit to Norway so both spirits and expectations were sky high.

The targets were Cod, Halibut, Coalfish, Catfish and Haddock. Please find a link to the article Les wrote for Planet Sea Fishing.

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http://www.planetseafishing.com/features/read/vannoya-is-halibut-heaven/

We had a great trip, superb boat in brand new Arvor AS, good accommodation and a host (Jan) who could not have done more for us.

The weather was extremely challenging for the first two days but we then broke lucky on both the weather and the fishing. We also broke a few local records for Buryosund, 50 halibut in a week including Jason’s fish which broke the local record. Stacks of Cod and I mean stacks the average size was disappointing but I believe we were unlucky on this front as its got a track record of delivering according to my research. We spent a lot of time chasing these fish. The up side and it was a big up side is that we had superb Halibut fishing ten minutes from the house.