Trout & Salmon Magazine December 2017 Zurück Ausgabe

LAND OF THE GIANTS
Most Salmon anglers dream of catching a truly vast Salmon. Who hasn’t spent a few minutes imagining that moment when your fly is snatched away by a true leviathan? A monster. A fish to show your grandchildren. That dream is one that few will realise. The huge Atlantic salmon of yesteryear are all but a memory in most of our home rivers, and the true titans, fish of 40lb and more are now extremely rare anywhere apart from Norway’s legendary Alta. Yet there is a place. A place where big, chrome-silver fish of 30lb barely raise an eyebrow. A place where fish of 40lb, 50lb, even 60lb are eminently catchable on fly.