Norway question...

[The Great Wallsendo]

Basic questions:

Travel Rod Vs Full Size?

Medium grade rod (20-30lb) or Heavy (30 - 50lb)?

Got a couple of years to sort a few things out but just getting the juices flowing

Appreciate its potato vs potato but am interested in people's thoughts :yltype:

 

[canman]

Hi Tony, I'm off there on Friday, i'm taking a 12lb-20lb sonik and a 20lb -30lb. Thinking, if there are some big coaly's, the 12-20lb rod should be the one, and the other for the cod.
Taking a shore rod and spinning rod in case the weather is not good at some stage. I will be using fixed spool reels with 50lb braid with shads or metal lures.
Will put a report on when i get back.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Look forward to it Arthur :thumbup:

 

[Tadpoleman]

Full Details and lots of photos please Arthur ! you know the score

 

[Tadpoleman]

Im sure Allan Skinner will put your mind at rest for a few years Tony

 

[canman]

Full Details and lots of photos please Arthur ! you know the score

Will do Bert. Just got reports of 20kg+ cod being caught

 

[hulme6612]

I would take a medium class rod, they're long days so want to go as light as possible. But still need to be up to the job.
I used me maxximus with tld 15 when I went and caught cod to 42lb.
Taking travel rods this year as saves lugging rod tubes about and is cheaper. But tubes are good as you can load them with pirks and sinkers, so saves on your hold baggage weight.
Pros and cons to everything really.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

I would take a medium class rod, they're long days so want to go as light as possible. But still need to be up to the job.
I used me maxximus with tld 15 when I went and caught cod to 42lb.
Taking travel rods this year as saves lugging rod tubes about and is cheaper. But tubes are good as you can load them with pirks and sinkers, so saves on your hold baggage weight.
Pros and cons to everything really.

:thumbup: Cheers! just the kind of info I'm after...don't really want to invest too much against what I already own as the trip itself will be costly enough

But would prob stretch to a travel rod versus rod tube though I think

 

[hulme6612]

I'll see how I get on with my travel rods this year and if they're ok you could borrow those if you wanted.

 

[northeast1]

If its far north Norway then i always tell people it will be about £1300 and everything is based on 4 sharing at the fish camps, if less than the price rises.

We are away in 3 weeks time for our 4th trip and it never gets old, so much more than just the fishing to see and do when your up there.

We are taken travel rods this year for the first time as the main airways have seen how much dosh they can make from anglers and a tube was going to cost silly money and it also a pain to handle, we get 3 flights there and back + ferry+ car ride.

I am not a fan of the travel rods but the Nordic big game is a cheap option at £80 and it has handled wrecking last year from our coast, thou we use 3lbers for bait in Norway so not really a good test from our shores

Best tips...

* Get as far north as you can

* Like all parts of the world, different species at different months so decide what you wish to target and book that month i.e big colaie is Late July to Oct, Skri cod is late March to mid April etc

* Everything is worked out in 4s

* Expect to pay £1300 for a week all in

* Dont go mad purchasing loads of the expensive Norway gear you need next to nothing as never lose anything.

* Go with someone that knows about boats driving and basics of the engines, as your on your own once you take the boat out the harbours from most camps.

 

[Tadpoleman]

Spot on advice Richie

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Cheers!

Will prob buy a travel rod anyway as I quite like the idea of using it in different parts of the UK too when go camping

 

[kayos]

I had a Penn Powestix 7' 6" four piece travel boat rod. It came in a hard Penn tube about 2ft long max. I sold it last summer, as I got fed up splitting it and packing it away and I rue the very day I sold it.

It was a great rod and I sold it on a stupid whim...............buy one, you won't regret it!

 

[canman]

Some really good advice Rich. Can you tell me what skri cod are, I know Allen Skinner targeted them, but thats as much as I know

 

[kayos]

Nicked off a Norway blog!

Skrei is, roughly speaking, a teenage Atlantic cod, one that is on the move from the Barents Sea down to the spawning grounds at Versalen, just off the Lofoten Islands, a bleakly beautiful archipelago of sheer, snowbound, mountainous coastline and deep waters, where its life began. Its relative youth (skrei spawns at between four and seven years) means it is cod at its very best – lean, firm and with a great taste.

 

[northeast1]

Skri cod is just what they call the big spawning cod in that part of the world, they come close into the fjords to spawn in shallow water, some of the cod have been as far north as the ice lets them get and can be silly sizes. If you are willing to go md-March to early April when they come in (lasts 2-3 weeks) and able to take the cold and bad weather at that time of year you are in for a treat with most people taken fish in the 50's and 60's upwards but you need to be willing to only fish say 2-3 days out of a week...Sorroya is the top spot by a mile followed by loppa area.

3 weeks and counting for me, cant wait...just hope the weather is kind

 

[canman]

Thanks Mark & Rich. Very informative. Rich, hope all goes well on your trip and the weather is kind.

 

[northeast1]

Its just the weather really that can stop you getting to the better marks we know, people think you can stop anywhere in Norway and catch loads of huge fish...not true, you need to find them and hunt out good features. unlike the cod in our waters they feed bottom to mid water table and on the move all the time chasing the ever moving herring shoals, find the herring find the big cod.