Atlantik Travel - Fly Fishing Trips for Arctic Char - Greenland
Fly Fishing Trips for Arctic Char - Ilua River, Greenland. A video from one of Atlantik Travel’s group tours to Camp Char in southern Greenland, in July 2009. The beautiful river Ilua runs crystal clear, and from mid summer onwards is home to an incredible number of fish. Greenland - Fly Fishing for Arctic Char. Greenland is still relatively unknown as a fly fishing destination, but every angler really should experience the incredible fishing and landscapes found here at least once in their lifetime. Greenland fly fishing videos.
Greenland - Artic Char - Camp Char Atlantik Travel’s popular fishing camp, the well established ’Camp Char’ is available exclusively through us. 2010 will be the camps seventh season on the banks of the beautiful, crystal clear River Ilua, a water that is renown for its huge run of strong, hard fighting artic char. All Atlantik’s tour leaders have visited the camp previously and possess a thorough knowledge of the area, the river, and the most succesful techniques.
The River The River Ilua flows into the sea roughly 30km from Narsarsuaq, which translates to a two hour boat trip along Erik Fjord from the airport. The Ilua is a clear flowing river which meanders through what is, considering it is Greenland, a surprinsingly lush, green valley, surrounded by high mountains. The river offers both several beautiful sections of fast flowing water and deeper gin-clear pools. This part of the Ilua offers great spin fishing.
The Canyon 300m upstream of the Lake pools you can find a longer beat (approx. 1000m long), which consists of a long ravine through which the Ilua flows - this is the Canyon Beat. Here one pool comes on after another, and one characteristic they all share is that they all hold many fish. As a rule of thumb it is in the deepest pools that you can find the biggest fish. It is paradise for spin fishers, and a real challenge for the fly fisherman.
The Fishing
THE RIVER ILUA. From the mouth of the Ilua, there is an approximately 100m long stretch of river that runs out of a long, narrow lake. This section of the Ilua offers very good spin fishing, with many fishing running through it to the lake on the high tide. The lake itself is roughly 100m and 2-3km long before the main river runs into it. The best fishing in the lake is to be had around the in and outflows, here the char rest before swimming on upstream. It take around an hour to walk along
The main river is around 4-5km long and it is here you can find everything from fast flowing, rocky sections to deep crystal clear pools. The Ilua offers something for everyone, where all from the complete rookie to the most experienced of fly-fishermen will find the fishing of your dreams. The fishable part of the river ends at the foot of a beautiful, which is 50m wide and falls over 50m down the hillside over what likes a giant staircase.
It is possible to fish with both spin and fly in the both the faster runs and the many pools, where artic char averaging around 1 -3 kg are waiting. We could tell how many fish we usually catch, but if we did you simply wouldn’t believe it anyway! THE POOLS. Situated just a hundred metres from the camp is the Home Pool. All ascending fish must pass through this pool and the following beat. The pool consists of some small stretches of fast water close to the lake to a deep pool nearer the fjord
THE SECRET. This pool is found around 300m upstream of the Canyon Beat. It is easily recognised by the huge boulder, the size of a small building, that can be seen on the right bank of the river as you look downstream. The pool itself starts with a section of fast water flowing over evenly sized stones with a deep pool just downstream. Again the pool tends to hold a multitude of fish. The fish should be fished with spinning gear or by casting your fly upstream.
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