OUR HISTORY
Once, over 40 years ago, something horrible happened somewhere near Trondheim. Out ran two terrified people from Trondheim at once, and even though they were not blessed with stars in the sky or kings on camels, it would later turn out that they were at least good for something, but we can come back to that a little later.
Trond came first and Knut came languidly after. Safe and sound labels on simple boys who ended up in the middle of a peasant romantic reality where the Centre Party was more important than God, and salmon fishing was most important of all. To the great despair of the Centre Party, they gave up on both dairy cows, manure spreading and potatoes.
Growing up just a good speck cast from the banks of the Orkla does something to curious children's minds. You either experience traumatic near misses and develop a lifelong fear of water, or you become a compulsive salmon fisherman. Fortunately, our boys ended up in the latter category. Back then, they didn't just fish for salmon, by the way. Summer and winter, they were all about anything that looked like it could swim, both with and without a bikini. They fished, therefore they were. Philosophical and beautiful.
In addition, it would turn out that they were tough businessmen. Even before they were ten years old, they were the undisputed market leaders in the local area when it came to salmon fry for all households with cats. The tariff was rock-solid, "a penny a pound." No haggling, no credit, but cash straight into your pocket.
The boys got their first two-handed fly rods when they were ten years old. Kits from Hardy (or fibatube) with accompanying DT lines of up to 30 meters. Now a historic phase in Norwegian fly casting began. It didn't take long before they mastered this equipment far better than most of their adult fishermen. They mastered spey casting at the age of twelve and at that time almost no one cast that way. The fact that some adult salmon fishermen turn to twelve-year-olds to learn new ways of casting flies is both interesting and special, but that's how it was.
This educational "backward country history" is probably a bit of the starting point for both the fishing school in Orkla, which eventually saw the light of day, and LTS Flyfishing as it is today. For these two boys set themselves the goal of making better rods than what was on the market.
LTS or Loop team Syrstad as it was originally called went through a divorce in 2012 and LTS Flyfishing as we know it today was formed. Businessman Leiv Rædergård joined forces with twins Trond and Knut and bought the rights for LTS from Loop in Sweden. Unfortunately, Knut lost his battle with cancer so it is now Leiv and Trond who manage the ship together with John Olav Rædergård and Jon Erik Grøset from the head office at Løkken Verk.
We at the new LTS will collaborate with the world's leading fly fishing development communities and we will push technology to the limit to give you better equipment tailored to your fishing trips. We simply want to make your fishing as efficient as possible and make equipment the way we believe rods should be.
