Canoe group 1, week 26, Rynda River.

Paddlers. Ole Anton, Jon Erling, Peter, Tor Egil, Kai, Kjell and Pål.

We started the trip just below The Great Lakes. The camp is about 2 km below the lake. For 3 days we were fishing from the camp and up to the lake. The first part of the river out of the lake has been good for the last 3 years, with hatches and rising fish. The spring was delayed this year, and almost nothing was green. The temperature in the river was from 6-10 degrees. In spite of this we had plenty of fish rising to small caddis and some midges, and we had fun dry fly fishing. Flies used were Rackelhanan, Tri-Caddis, Elk Hair Caddis and Streaking Caddis. We caught several trout above 2 kg and many between 1 and 2 kg. At this camp we were lucky enough to see a polar fox. Reindeer was around us every day at this camp.

We left rising fish to paddle on to Camp 2, a beautiful camp site at the outlet from Torismanjavri, or Lake Peter as we also call it. The trip down the river was easy, and this year we were able to paddle or line the canoes down all the rapids. We passed a stretch of the river with a small hatch of mayflies, and later regretted not camping there to see what would happen.

At Camp 2 we fished from the lake down about 4 km to what Pål calls The 5 Finger Rapids, an easy trip in a canoe. There are several interesting parts of the river on this stretch. And just below the rapid we have had excellent fishing. We had no hatches this time, and the fishing was blind fishing with large dry Streaking Caddis or Streamers. The fishing was good, but we had hoped for hatches. It was very windy all the time. On night it calmed down and Kjell went out on the lake and found some char eating midges along a foam line. He caught 3 nice char before the wind picked up again, the largest almost 2.5 kg.

We had very variable weather during the week with cold nights. The water temperature got up to 12 degrees towards the end of the week.

Pål Krogvold

31. aug 2009