OUR STORY
More than 40 years ago, somewhere near Trondheim, something momentous happened. Two startled little Trøndelag boys arrived at once. No stars appeared in the sky and no kings came riding camels, but it would later turn out that the boys were good for something. More on that shortly.
Trond arrived first, with Knut following close behind. Solid, reassuring names for two boys born into a rural world where the Centre Party mattered more than God, and salmon fishing mattered most of all. Much to the Centre Party's dismay, they cared little for dairy cows, manure spreading or potatoes.
Growing up a good Spey cast from the banks of the Orkla does something to a curious young mind. Either near-disasters leave you with a lifelong fear of water, or you become an obsessive salmon angler. Fortunately, our boys fell into the second category. And salmon were not their only quarry. Summer and winter, they chased anything that looked capable of swimming, with or without a bikini. They fished, therefore they were. Philosophical, and rather beautiful.
They also proved to be hard-nosed businessmen. Before they were ten, they were the neighbourhood's undisputed market leaders in supplying salmon fry to households with cats. The price was firm: one krone per fish. No haggling, no credit, just cash straight into the pocket.
The boys got their first double-handed fly rods at ten: Hardy, or Fibatube, kits with double-taper lines almost 30 metres long. A historic chapter in Norwegian fly casting began. Before long, they handled this equipment far better than most adults fishing alongside them. By twelve, they had mastered Spey casting, which hardly anyone used at the time. Adults turning to twelve-year-olds to learn new ways of casting may sound unusual, but that is how it was.
That reversal of the usual teacher-and-pupil roles may have helped lay the foundations for the fishing school on the Orkla and for LTS Flyfishing as it is today. The two boys set themselves a goal: to make better rods than those already on the market.
LTS, originally Loop Team Syrstad, went through a separation in 2012, and LTS Flyfishing as we know it today was formed. Businessman Leiv Rædergård joined twins Trond and Knut to buy the rights to LTS from Loop in Sweden. Sadly, Knut later lost his battle with cancer. Today, Leiv and Trond steer the business with John Olav Rædergård and Jon Erik Grøset from the head office at Løkken Verk.
At the new LTS, we work with leading fly-fishing development specialists around the world and push technology to its limits to bring you better equipment for your fishing trips. We simply want to make your fishing as effective as possible and build rods the way we believe they should be built.
