Stjørdalselva rises near the Swedish border at Meråker and runs some seventy kilometres west to the Trondheimsfjord at Værnes, fifty-five of them open to salmon from the Nustadfoss down. It drains a catchment of more than two thousand square kilometres through central Norway, gathering the Forra, Sona, Gråelva, Funna and Dalåa on the way, and carries National Salmon River status for the protection of its stock. It is a typical big Trøndelag salmon river — broad gravel runs and long holding pools on a moderate gradient through a wide forested valley — and a famously good fly river, the average fish above five kilos and the season's total among the top ten in the country. The bed is hard glaciated rock and gravel, the water clear off the fell. Wading is steady where the runs allow, with the usual care for big water at the heads of the pools.

Wading: Big water at the pool heads