Trondheim sits on the Trondheimsfjord, which the Gaula enters at Melhus to the south.
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The Gaula River at Kotsøy, Trøndelag, Norway, seen from the bridge in the village. Photo: Manxruler, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Trondheim sits on the Trondheimsfjord, which the Gaula enters at Melhus to the south; the Orkla reaches the fjord at Orkanger to the west, the Stjørdalselva at Stjørdal and the Verdalselva at Verdal to the north-east, and the Surna runs to the Møre og Romsdal coast beyond the Orkla.
The circle is the 90-mile area this page covers, around Trondheim. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.
Map of the Gaula & the Trøndelag salmon rivers area: its waters, shops and guides
Map of Gaula & the Trøndelag salmon rivers: the 90-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.
The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.
No live reading is shown on this hub page; open a linked water for the agency gauges and sources we hold for it.
Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.
Fees on the agency page
Anglers over 18 fishing for salmon, sea trout or sea char pay the state fishing fee and buy a fishing card for the river from the landowner or the local managers.
Licence pageNothing here grants or implies access to any water.
No guide listed within 90 miles yet; 5 lodges nearby are listed under Plan your stay. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.
We don't list guides in Norway yet. Know one? Suggest it.
Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Trondheim. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.
No shops listed near Trondheim yet.
For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.
A steelhead and salmon fly-fishing checklist: a switch or spey rod (or 9′6″ single-hand) in 7–8 weight, Skagit lines and sink tips, swing flies, studded boots and cold-weather layers, with estimated prices and where to buy.
11′–13′6″ two-hand rod, 7–8 weight, Skagit head + sink tips · Steelhead and Pacific salmon
Open checklistTwo-hand casting, sink tips and the swing.
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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly, tagged with a water in Trøndelag, Norway.
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Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.
Links checked 5 Nov 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.
Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway
Fishing lodge · 19 mi
Haltdalen, Trøndelag, Norway
Fishing lodge · 37 mi
Vuku, Trøndelag, Norway
Fishing lodge · 47 mi
Steinsdalen, Trøndelag, Norway
Fishing lodge · 60 mi
Bangsund, Trøndelag, Norway
Campground · 76 mi
