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Brende/Gildset/Ler salmon beat in Haltdalen.

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This time I will describe a salmon beat located in Haltdalen, this is a beat which is available on a weekly basis. The beat is 1,2 kilometres in length, and contains three different main pools named Moa Pool, Stig Pool, and Brenn Pool. In addition it can be very exciting to fish the runs between the pools when the river is low.

The beat will fish very well with many different water levels, especially the Moa Pool can provide very god entertainment in a wide variety of conditions. The Moa Pool s also located in a spawning area, so many salmon will hold here throughout the season and create plenty of action for a keen salmon fisher. There are periods when the fishing is not as good in all rivers, but in this pool you will always have the possibility to meet winter armed with good memories.

The Moa Pool.

The Moa Pool.

The Stig Pool including the rapids below is a sight to be seen, talk about beautiful and exciting nature at a salmon pool! In this pool the river is at its most narrow so here the salmon cannot pass you without seeing your fly. The fish will also often stop here to rest, this pool challenges the fly fisher in the best possible way, we’re not talking long casts but the challenge is all the hundreds of large rocks creating odd currents, seams, etc, all of which can be potential holding spots for salmon. I recommend you fish a floating/sink1, floating/sink3, or floating/sink5 line here, choose one of these lines according to the water level. These lines are perfect here as you can lift the floating part over rocks, you can slow down or increase the speed of the fly by mending the line over seams, rocks etc.

The Stig Pool upstream.

The Stig Pool downstream.

The Brenn Pool is a really good salmon pool, this is a pool which also has an exciting glide in its lower parts. This pool is one of those pools containing the really big salmon, imagine that! The pool is fished from a large rocky area making it that much easier to move about in this steep terrain. The rapids both upstream and downstream of the pool is also exciting fishing spots when the river is lower, and just this water level is something we experience quite often in this part of the river.

I recommend that 6 people can fish this beat without feeling crowded. The beat is located in an area of the upper Gaula which stops the fish, the valley is quite narrow, but with lots of large rocks and thus holding spots everywhere. This is what often makes the salmon to pause its upstream journey in this area.

There will be some fishermen at the other bank, but it will be like this in most places on the river, the advantage you have on this beat is that it is quite long with several pools to choose from so that other fishermen on the other side is rarely a problem.

The 2009 season saw 60 salmon landed from this beat, and many of these are large salmon. The river valley is as previously stated quite narrow here, so the experience is awesome when a large salmon grabs your fly on a short line, it will give you an experience to be remembered for the rest of your life. You can just imagine yourself how exciting the fight will be.

I used this beat for the Haltdalen course for the 2009 season, this beat was the new item of the season in terms of this course, and the participants were very impressed by this beat. We caught a total of three salmon during the course from this beat, all were caught on a floating line and riffling hitch tube flies, and one of the participants also lost a salmon in the Stig Pool after a fight lasting for around 15 minutes.

The Brenn Pool downstream.

The Brenn Pool upstream.

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