Fishing in Iceland; Svarta doing good

Good fishing trip for an angler fishing Svarta up north. He was fishing the beat Grundarsteinn and landed seven salmon and lost another three and all this in just an hour. After he headed to the beat Armot and there he landed another one and lost two. Its safe to say that this angler had a very good first shift. …

Fishing in Iceland, Blanda doing good

We heard from Þorsteinn guide at Blanda just now and he told us that fishing continues to flourish in this river up north. Blanda is just reaching 1400 salmon now and anglers are easily catching the day’s quota which is 50 salmon per day for four rods or about 12 salmon a day per rod. The prime time for next …

River Dee fishing report

LAST WEEK Having just returned from the wilds of Alaska pursuing sport with the Pacific species of Salmonids it was interesting to observe that their rivers were suffering from similar problems to our River Dee-a distinct lack of water due to a warm dry spell of weather-thankfully fishing was productive! With the Sepa river level gauges reading between 1 inch …

Stora Laxa news

Stora Laxa is now at 70 salmon this summer which is very good for this time of year since this river is known for being at its best in late summer. About 30 salmon have been landed at beat four and beat 1&2 have given similar numbers. Arni Bald was fishing beat four yesterday afternoon and caught three salmon. He …

Fishing Story from East Ranga

Jose L. Mallo was fishing the East Ranga a few days ago and he just sent us this email telling us about his fishing experience in the river. “I am sending you this mail to thank you for a wonderful trip. I got back from East Ranga a couple days ago and had a great time. I enjoyed very much …

News from Asgardur Sog

There are some big fish running in Asgardur Sog now. Arni and fellow angler are there now fishing and they have landed 4 salmon and lost 3 in only one and a half hour! The fish they have caught are all good fish in nice sizes and all with sea lice. Here you can see a photo of one of …

Blanda river doing extremely well

I just heard from our head guide in Blanda river. Anglers are very happy as the Blanda beat 1 is going very well, they are catching over 40 salmon a day on 4 rods. So far since the river opened they have caught 550 salmon on beat number 1. The salmon is spreading well over the river so there is …

More news from Halla river up north

We just heard from anglers who were fishing in Halla yesterday. They lost a big salmon, around 15 pounds and saw 3 salmon around 5-10pounds. Anglers fishing there last friday we heard from caught 6 salmon in 1.5 days but in total 7 salmon have been landed. The Halla river is a small and sensitive river that holds only 2 …

Sog-Ásgarður news

We heard from Stéfan Viðarsson and fellow angler, who were fishing in Asgarður-Sog. They had two great shifts and finished the day with nine salmon. The later shift yesterday was a real treat but then they lost fifteen salmon and landed seven. They caught all the salmon on a Sunray Shadow and Francis Conehead, red and black. All of the …

Fishing in Iceland: Good news from East Ranga

Good new from East Ranga river in recent days but as of yesterday 164 salmon have been caught and registered in the fishing book. According to the East Ranga facebook page 161 of those 164 salmon caught have been big salmon. Skúli Sigurðsson, guide at the East Ranga, mentioned that salmon is in good shape and being caught all over …