Twilight fishing

Fly Fishing: Fishing Trips and Holidays

Located next to the famous Gaula River, Winsnes Fly Fishing Lodge offers some of the best fly fishing available on Europe’s best Salmon River.

Salmon Fly Fishing

Jakob Winses with salmon Officially ranked as Europe’s number one Salmon River, the Gaula offers both quantity and quality of salmon. One of the few rivers in the world where your next cast might result in a forty-pound salmon, Gaula has fish that average between fourteen and sixteen pounds in weight.

In 2005 the Gaula became the best salmon fishing river in Norway with a catch of 37.5 tons.

Read more about our Salmon Fly Fishing Holidays here

Winsnes offers salmon fishing on two exclusive fly fishing areas, Malum Winsnes/GFF and Flaskholen. Both are among the best fly water on the whole of the river and the Flaskholen syndicate is arguably the most exclusive on Gaula.

matt hayes with giant salmon

 

Trout and Grayling Fishing

matt hayes with trout

In addition to fine salmon fishing, the Winsnes lodge also offers other fly fishing options for trout and grayling on rivers, streams and lakes.

Norway has some of the best light fly fishing in the world in spectacular surroundings.

Read more about our Trout and Grayling Fly Fishing Trips here