Hvannadalsa – gin clear and perfect for the hitch

Hvannadalsa is a 3 rod river, beutifully located in a very unique and remote place, great for those who prefer relaxed and private fishing.  valgerdur@lax-a.is It is delightful to fish Hvannadalsa with the fly; the river is gin clear so you can spot the salmon in most of the places and you will for sure find some great fighters as the salmon in Hvannadalsa is known to be …

A monster salmon from Svartá

Svartá is our little gem in the north of Iceland. The river has four rods and plenty of space for every angler. Svartá has been really productive this summer with about 500 salmon caught to the five rods. In the river junction to Blanda the river is absolutely full of salmon with at least 200 seen in pool „Hólmabreiða“. One …

River Blanda sets a new Icelandic record

We have just heard that river Blanda is now up to 4230 salmon caught this summer. Not only is this a all-time record for the river, this is also a new Icelandic record for most salmon caught in a naturally stocked river. The previous record is from Þverá/Kjarará from 2005 when 4165 salmon were caught. River Blanda has been on …

Seatrout fishing in Iceland , the south coast Tungufljot river

The beautiful Tungufljot in county Skaftafell on the South Coast of Iceland , the most famous and the best big fish Seatrout river in Iceland. We are taking bookings now for 2016 , prime time is late season month of September and October is when the adventures happens! Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

Ian Bain on the East Ranga writes about a fish in 1,000

Our good friend Ian Bain wrote to us about his recent experience in East Ranga. “A small round of applause, not to speak of a sigh of relief, followed the announcement at lunchtime that a fierce-fighting little grilse I’d caught on beat one this morning had become the 1,000th salmon to be landed on the East Ranga this season. And about time too, said …

Record numbers in River Blanda

The new numbers for Iceland arrived today and River Blanda is at 2997 and you can bet that the three salmon needed for the 3000 arrived in the first hour this morning. This is a new record in the river and we are only in August.  Of other rivers, we have Miðfjarðará in the second place with 2530 and West …

Salmon fishing in Iceland , there have been some big fish caught this season

As before , every year there are more and more salmon in Iceland over 20 pounds landed , this season already good numbers , and now there was landed a 110 cm Salmon from Big Laxá up north and few days from the same river 107 cm , 100 – 104 cm long fish in better numbers , Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

Langadalsá looking good

Langadalsá in the west fjords of Iceland has been gaining moment in recent weeks. The cold weather took a long time to go but finally after almost a month we have strong runs of grilse. The river is now in 100 salmon, which is a lot better than the 57 we had the same time last year. The last anglers …

Stora Laxa – Good run

In the past week we have had good runs in Stora Laxa with all beats producing good numbers. The bottom part of the river or beat 1&2 had a good run of grilse with 5-10 caught per day. Beat three was also active and a group caught 8 salmons and after that Arni Baldursson went with a friend and they …

River Blanda has over 2000 salmon caught

River Blanda is totally on fire and is now the first river in Iceland to break the 2000 salmon barrier. All beats of the river are now packed with salmon with catches per day between 100 -200 salmon. Beat one is now well over 1000 salmon and only four rods fish the beat. We are not hesitant to say that …