Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish Written Review Review by The Good Ride

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A Breakdown of How the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish How it rides and who it is for

How It Was Tested

I borrowed the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish for an extended demo and sent it back but I wouldn’t mind owning one.

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Size: 157
Days: 2 for the 2025 model but 4+ on the 2023 with the same shape but cork/bamboo sidewalls.
Conditions: Great groomers and an early morning run with Drift Board Bindings & Union Rovers
Riders: James (Size 9, 5’10”, 185-190lbs). I’ve tested and compared 800+ boards
Boots: Ride Deadbolt
Insoles: F.I.T. Gamechangers
Bindings: Union Atlas
Redundancy: Strapins in case boots or bindings break.
Jacket: Jones Mtn Surf Anorak, Skyline Fuse Jacket
Pant: Jones Mountain Surf Pant, Burton AK Gore-Tex Pro 3L Hover Pant
Helmet: Smith Method, Smith Scout
Goggle: Smith 4D Mag
Gloves: Burton AK Clutch Mitt, Burton AK Tech Leather Glove, Drop Tahoma Mitt,

James’s Set Up: 21.5” Wide. Stance Angles +30/+15 +24/+6. Close to Reference on groomers and Set all the way back in powder.

Similar Boards We Like (but not the same):
Korua Dart, Weston Japow, Moss Jellyfish, Gentemstick Barracuda, Soul Shift, Nidecker Beta, Nidecker Beta APX,  Jones Storm Chaser 2025

Approximate Weight

(We don’t put in the exact weight because with wood cores, there is no consistency in a board’s weight)

Sizing

The 157 Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish fit me pretty well. Even though the max recommended weight is 100kg/220lbs, and I was about 86kg/190lbs on the heavy end, I still felt pretty heavy for it but not too heavy. I could control/turn this wider board with my size 9US boots and 5’10″/178cm frame a little better than I thought, but in uneven snow or really tight spots without mostly untracked pow, it can be a little slow to initiate a turn. It’s super fun and very easy to clean in clean conditions.

Sizing is all about balancing what fits your boot size and your weight for how you like to ride. If your boot is too wide, you can’t turn it; if it’s too narrow, you get the dreaded Toe & Heel Drag. Your weight is a close second to boot size because it determines how the board will feel under your foot.  Height comes in a distant 3^rd. Some prefer control, so matching the boot size is the priority. Others prefer dampness over control and like to size up.

Here are some ideal US boot sizes.
149: 6-7
153: 8-9
157: 9-10
162: 10-11

I would stay well under Salomon’s recommended weight ranges for the Wolle Nyvelt Fish. I would still ensure it fits your boot first and then your weight a close second, especially if you plan to ride this in groomers.

Shape

There is 20mm of taper, and you ride pretty close to the tail with the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish, even though there is only 15mm of setback on the sidecut. This isn’t full-on snowsurf riding on the tail, but it’s still a snowsurf-style ride.

Camber/On Snow Feel/Ability Level

The camber profile of the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish looks a little intimidating for an intermediate, but it’s not. When you strap in, and your weight is on the board, the nose rocks up more than it does on the table, and it’s forgiving enough for accomplished intermediates.

Edge Hold

There is a multi-radius sidecut, but it’s a very smooth blend between each radius change. It makes for competent but not full-on hard snow edge hold.

Flex Personality

I really enjoyed the medium flex of the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish, which is even softer in the nose. It’s easy to butter and very easy to ollie with. The way this pops on an ollie is special too. The Recycled ABS sidewalls didn’t seem to affect the pop much or at all either.

Uneven Snow

You have a major improvement in terms of chatter reduction with the 2025 Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish, thanks to the Recycled ABS sidewalls. When it had cork and bamboo sidewalls, it was less reliable and much crankier and chatter in hard or soft microbumpy snow. It used to really fatigue me and did really poorly against many of its competitors in same-day tests. With ABS, it’s on par with most boards with this kind of flex/pop.

The Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish still bucks and bounces around in soft, uneven snow or riding in bumps, but it’s a much less jarring bump that is easy to get used to. Before, it was too jarring for me and had a more fatiguing nature; now, it’s a much more doable all-day ride.

Speed

The sidecut is balanced enough to go straight without feeling like it wants to turn, but this isn’t a super fast/damp ride. It’s better than it used to be with the Recycled ABS sidewalls, though, and it’s fine for a straight line to make a traverse or the occasional need to go fast.

Base Glide

I was really impressed with the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish’s base glide. Salomon always does well, but this has a near-excellent base glide. For repair reasons, I don’t like the yellow all over the base, but I can live with it.

Turning Experience/Carving

Initiating a turn is easy in good conditions, but the wider width was fatiguing for me in more uneven snow and tight spots. Still, it turned well in the trees if it wasn’t uneven, and I felt like I could ride this all day.

When I got the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish on edge, it had a pretty balanced, make any turn you want, sort of turning experience that I really liked. I’ve put in many days on this over the years with many different stance angles, and it rides equally well, slightly duck on the back foot to full-on super posi. Not all snowsurf boards are like that and many prefer a posi stance angle to really shine on a carve. You can weight your turns any way you like as well.

Now, this doesn’t have this super stiff flex to really carve super hard, but I had a blast riding it. I like carving on medium-flexing boards, and if you are like me, then you will like this a lot. There is a very fun, satisfying spring out of the turn, and it’s very rewarding for all but super high-speed carves.

Powder

I was lucky to get this in knee-high to waist-high pow every time I rode this. If I were riding this in powder and perfect groomers only, I’d go 162 to get amazing float in the always low angle but often deep pow I mainly see. As it stands, the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish 157 is the kind of board I want to ride on groomers a lot, too, so this is the size I would buy. It did super well in the deep stuff, turned well in the trees, and was not all the time but a more than competent low-angle pow board with super easy float.

To talk about the setback on board, the 157 had a 7.25″ setback at a 22″ stance width if you measure from the center. If you measure from the tail, it’s more like -5.325″ back from the center of the board, but I’d say it’s in between those two. It’s probably more on the -7.25″ side. I like that there are 7×2 inserts in the front, so you can set it back a little more. I also like that the tail doesn’t sink so much that it can bottom out as many more pronounced swallowtails can on those days where it can be hard under semi-deep but not full-on pow.

Final Thoughts

So before, I liked the Salomon Wolle Nyvelt Fish, but the chatter and lack of reliability from the cork/bamboo sidewalls made it hard to recommend. Moving forward, I’ll be recommending the 2025 a lot.