Central Fishspot country – (mostly) open for business
Rivers in the Glomma watershed are mostly done with their spring runoff and conditionas are fishable in the main river, tributaries and surrounding lakes.
It's still early but fish are being caught as they say. Hatches are mostly local, and sparse. Intense exceptions do exist. Still, this is a very precious time. The time of first casts and first fish. They're lovely no matter how big they are.
However, some action would be ok. The main stop to a much more exciting insect-life on our rivers would be warmer weather. A cold system has caused an otherwise early spring to slow down. Some areas in the Gudbrandsdalslågen watershed catchment area are receiving snow at the time of writing. Some trout lakes are delivering as usual, but it takes time, skill and knowledge of the area on behalf of the anglers.p
A treasure hunt
Our suggestion would be to head out in search for the elusive rubies of the northern lakes, the arctic charr. Lakes in Femundsmarka national park with charr just might be the place to be the next time warmer weather passes over us. Amazing things can truly happen if you hit it right. Remember that trout and grayling sometimes inhabit the same lakes, so you won't always have to go all in on the elusive charr if the conditions are lousy.
Arctic charr in most lakes in the main part of Fishpot-country are notoriously hard to catch when the water reaches summer temperatures. But right now, in lakes with for instance hatches of Leptophlebia vespertina, you can have great (or more normally extremely frustrating) fishing for schooling, bubbling, sipping and rising arctic charr.
Getting bummed has never been so much fun. Hang in there. When it happens, it happens and then you will understand why you did it.
