Lower Crathes best beat so far this season

Lower Crathes & West Durris has had the best catches so far this season with Ballogie and Invery closely following. The Lower Crathes has produced 96 salmons, Ballogie 90 and Invery with 81 salmon. The fishing in River Dee has been under the average in March and April with after a great start in February. The main reason for that …

Iceland Fly fishing: River Sog

Is the biggest clear water river in Iceland and one of Icelands best salmon rivers with fly water as good as you can find. Last few year have produced excellant fishing in river Sog. At river Sog beats we have spacious and comfortable self catering lodges. We offer very reasonable price for the fishing and you can choose to fish …

River Dee: Pictures & News from Lower Crathes

We got more news from Lower Crathes, this time its from last week when angler Lars Dam Nielsen was fishing. Here is his story… “Just back from Lower Crathes after 3 wonderful days. Difficult conditions in this water level – but a wonderful place and wonderful  people. Saturday gave action for me with one landed and to very nice springers …

24 pounder from Lower Crathes on DEE

24 pounder was landed on our Lower Crathes beat on river DEE last friday.  Conditions on DEE have been very tough for the last couple of weeks. Very very low water makes the fishing so difficult. Still last week about 58 salmon was landed from DEE. Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

River Dee Report 26th of March

Recent Catches A continuation of drought conditions on Deeside coupled with unseasonable and remarkable daytime temperatures has made fishing extremely difficult for anglers and Ghillies. With the mercury rising to over 22 degrees yesterday on Deeside, I looked at the river from my balcony and haven’t seen the water as low for the time of year. Anglers fished extremely well …

Svarta River – a fly fishing gem

The river Svarta in the north-west is one of the most fun fly fishing rivers that can be found. Her flow is very fast on the upper part, but she calms down on the lower part. The pools are very diverse, a canyon with the traditional rapids and swirls, fast flowing rocky stretches and calm pools are found almost side …

River Dee Report 27th of February

Recent Catches This was a big fish week for some anglers on Deeside this week with my nomination for an Oscar going to Jamie Hammond for his tremendous effort in catching two salmon in excess of 20lbs, more of this later. FishDee beats reported 65 Salmon for the week with Lower Crathes once again finishing the week with the highest …

Lower Crathes with 16 salmon last week

The fishing at Lower Crathes beat is going very well this season and now the second week in a row the beat had the best fishing on River Dee. According to River Dee weekly newsletter the conditions look ideal for anglers fishing the River Dee this week with a very favourable weather forecast allied to high spring tides which should …

Fishing in Greenland

Greenland is the wildest place on earth for char fishing. This is the biggest island in the world, and in fact one of biggest countries as well. Greenland is inhabited with only 55.000 people, sharing thousands of rivers and lakes, full of Arctic Char.  This means that many of those fishing areas are hardly fished at all, some rivers have not seen …

Many come to Iceland for its great Salmon Fishing

And for good reason.  But Iceland also boasts some of the best Brown Trout, Sea Trout and Arctic Char fishing on Earth. And it is easy to fish all on the same trip. In fact, it is only 5 hours door to door and you can be fishing the same day you arrive. And while Iceland is a relatively small …