The Riverfisher Blog

So now, you stand filled with joy, looking down upon your trophy seatrout. To get to this point, you must have used some solid tackle. “But what exactly is “solid tackle”, when it comes to fishing for big fish in River Karup”? Read more about this in part 4.

Even though you might lose the seatrout of your dreams, there’s usually something valuable you can take with you from each experience. Especially regarding how you can control and maneuver the big fish in the river (or at least try to), by the use of implementing different rod angles and direction of rod pressure during […]

It’s not just the fact, that the fish of River Karup are big and strong. The challenge also lies within the surroundings in the river valley. Surroundings that present the angler with challenging conditions and obstacles, which forces you to try to make some form of tactical considerations, during the fight with one of the […]

Just a second ago, the fish violently attacked my little fly. It turned right behind it with a big swirl, without striking it. After a fruitless effort in the last dark hours of the night, I found myself near the end of the chosen river stretch at dawn. Here was a top holding position… and […]

American fly patterns for fishing in River Karup.

The season of 2016 was off to a good start, and the River Karup had already delivered a huge amount of nice fish. So on the 8th of July I decided to visit some of the beautiful stretches of water, in the areas of Vormstrup and Resen. Being an avid night angler, I was off […]

I was alone on the stretch of river, and enjoyed a cup of coffee by the car while I inspected the silhouette on my new “Squidro” night fly, up against the sunset. It was, as always, a beautiful sight when the day’s last rays of light, really captures the sky.

There is a set of “unwritten rules” which should be taken into account when fishing the River Karup. It is important to be considerate of others and their fishing, and thereby making an effort to treat others along the river, as you yourself wish to be treated.

It’s a well-known fact, that one of the subjects in modern day salmon- and sea trout fishing, that really divides anglers into groups of pros and cons, is whether you do, or even should practice “Catch and Release” (C/R) in a river system… or not? This debate is, not surprisingly, also present by the River […]