Skjervoy Norway days 1 & 2 of 6

Wednesday


Wednesday was our first fishing day, we had a late start after getting the shopping sorted out. The weather was brutal, wind, rain, snow and sleet. The fishing wasn’t much better but we winkled out a few fish as we ducked for cover around points out of the wind.

My first fish of the trip, the sunglasses are on to keep the sleet out my eyes

Del wearing most of his layers, it was that type of day

A wolfie to end a very cold day

Thursday


There would be a big improvement in the weather for Thursday which would enable us to head to a few marks off Arnoya. We’d all fished here before so after a healthy breakfast we were rigged up and ready to go, expectations were high over the 1 ½ hours that it took us to get there. We speculated that we might get some bigger Cod this year as we normally fish later in May. With the sun shining we were straight into fish with treble and quadruple hook ups not uncommon.

Not the biggest Cod they varied between about 8 and 17 pounds, with the sun shining down into the water we let the Cod decompress and release gas a few metres down.

We had very few casualties as a result of this. After a miserable start we were finally under way. The highlight of the day was when Stuart brought a 10 pound Cod to the surface which was followed by a huge Halibut, Del threw a lure in its general direction but with a flick of its tail it glided off into the blue. For what was left of that drift there was a heightened sense of anticipation, we didn’t know it at the time but that would be our only look at Halibut on this trip, but what a fish.


Stu managed a rock Cod close in

The SG Mama Rosa again..

Say aaagh!

As you can see, a little on the skinny side, thats the fish by the way