Gaula – Start of the 2026 salmon season Following a season with plenty of medium-sized salmon (1.376 caught = 34,1% of the total annual catch) the previous year, many salmon enthusiasts were very confident about the expected run of large salmon in time for the start of the season on 1 June. These
Bridge Pool - the last hope - when everything else has failed As is well known, when salmon fishing, you can sometimes have to wait a very long time before you make contact with a fish – and perhaps even land it. In such situations, anglers often wonder if they're doing something wrong.
The countdown is on: only 90 days until the season starts at Gaula – new early season video! Once February comes to an end, the time until the season opens on June 1st on the Gaula River always seems to fly by. And yet, like most “two-handed migratory birds” who travel to Norway
News from Norway’s Gaula River According to official statistics, the Gaula was among over 500 salmon rivers the Norwegian river with the highest number of large salmon over 7 kg caught nationwide in the 2026 season, with 772 large salmon caught. In terms of the total number of salmon caught, the Gaula ranked
How was last season and what can we expect for the 2026 season on the Gaula? The extreme weather conditions, with high water levels and wet, cold temperatures in the first weeks of the 2025 season, followed seamlessly by periods of extreme heat, seemed to make a good season impossible. Nevertheless, the salmon
Precipitation records and heatwave in the Trøndelag region In May, the Trøndelag region experienced eight record rainfall records, and things didn't improve in June. Overall, the weather during this period was extremely wet for a continuous period of 10 weeks. Even the hardy little Norwegians hardly ever went outside to play during this
Following a mid-term assessment of salmon stocks, the Norwegian Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to introduce any new regulations for salmon fishing this season. Historically strict rules were introduced at the beginning of this year, and the effect remains to be seen. Catches in most of the rivers for which we have data
The season started at midnight on 1 June with a water flow of 200m³/sec. at Gaulfossen and a water temperature of 7.1°C. During the course of the day, the Gaula fell to 160m³/sec. by the afternoon. The weather conditions in the days before the start of the season seemed to favour an early start
There are only a few days left until the start of the season on 1 June at the Gaula. We can hardly wait. The weather conditions make an early start likely. The water level is no longer at a very high level for this time of the year (15 May down to 128m³/sec, on
In a new film we show how Mortan A. Carlsen from the Faroe Islands catches and releases the largest salmon in the entire 2024 season on the Gaula. Read Mortan's own account: I have been fishing the Gaula for many years and one of my favourite places is the Bridge Pool in Rognes which
