Blanda at its best !

by Eduardo Medina: ” We fished Blandá beat 1 from 8th to 11th July and expectations were topped. Many fish, 26 good sized salmon for a shared rod during 3 fishing days, most of them over 5 kg, all fresh sea liced fish. It’s remarkable so powerful these Blanda fish are. Lodge is cozy and comfortable.  The lodge staff and …

Some 20 pounders and bigger have been landed in Iceland.

There have been some big fish landed in Iceland ,  every year it seems that we land more and more fish over 20 pounds ,  now it is not a great news any more  as it used to be few years back ,  this increase must be because of the catch and release for the last few years in Iceland …

East and West Rangá

Best spring fishing ever on the East and West Rangá ,  since last week of June East Ranga is now at 200 salmon and West Ranga just behind at 150 Salmon ,   looks very promising season for the Rangas. Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

One more new Lodge at Tungufljot river

Yesterday we opened up the second new fishing lodge on the Tungufljot river , this lodge is 2 bedrooms , bathroom , kitchen , dining and sitting room ,  large veranda.  All comfort comes with this new lodge. This lodge will accommodate the 2 rods fishing the East bank on Tungufljot ,  the ather new spacious lodge  is 140 squere …

Fishing Scotland: June good at Lower Crathes

Our Lower Crathes beat in River Dee is producing good fishing this month with the total of 37 salmon caught and only 2 days left of the month. The five year average is 25 salmon in June so acceptable fishing this year. This week has produced ten salmon with six of them caught on Tuesday and the largest a 21 …

Salmon on all beats in the Blanda river

The middle and upper beats of the river Blanda opened on the 20th of June, beats 2 and 3 are generally referred to as the middle beats and beat 4 is also known as Refsa. On the opening day on beat 4 (Refsa) 2 salmon were caught by anglers that had never been salmon fishing before – they hadn‘t even …

East Rangá, best opening ever 2012

Fishing in East Rangá river in Iceland usually starts around July 4th or there about.  This year salmon already arrived early June and even though the river is not yet officially open. We are having the best start EVER! 25 salmon  have been caught on 2 rods in East Rangá for the last few days.  But we will open with …

More fishing in Blanda

Fishing continued to be very good this weekend in the Blanda river. On Saturday only two salmons were caught, 10 and 11 lbs, but those were caught by beginners. The following day more advanced anglers took over and caught seven salmons and the average weight was excellent. The smallest one was 9 lbs and the biggest ones were 18 and …

Lake Thingvallavatn – Monster Brown Trout

Iceland , the lake Thingvallavatn in the National Park Thingvellir is the place for trophy Brown Trout ,  the lake seems to be better and better every year.  We are talking of Brown trout from 10 to 25 pounds! Several of the Lax-a guides are fishing the lake almost every evening of the week and coming back to office with …

Svarta, self catering salmon fishing

Svartá is an amazing 4 rod salmon river. It is located in North West Iceland above Blanda river. Svartá is 25 km long, a fly only river with great number of good pools. It has a large number of loyal customers fishing there year after year. The Svartá river is one of the country’s best-kept angling secrets for Salmon. Situated …