The First Icelandic salmon rivers to open have now been fished for  over a week. Norðurá had a good start but was a bit slower in the days after which is normal, now the fishing is picking up again.  Blanda opened under new rules of fly only and the opening was a success when you factor in the river was …

Nordura opened yesterday, 4th June, a beautiful day with happy anglers and 10 salmon caught for the day. At lunchtime today two were added and a few lost. Blanda river then opened this morning, 5th June, and at lunchtime 5 salmon have been landed. At Thvera, which also opened this morning, 3 had been caught and 3 lost before lunch. …

A guide was walking the lower section of river East Ranga and saw a 14-16 pound bright salmon jumping in pool Bátsvað. Earlier in the same day two mvs were caught in the Hólsá which is lower in the Ranga water system. We are very excited to hear the salmon has arrived in Ranga and we are very optimistic for …

The spring has been on the colder side in Iceland this year and the water temps colder than usual.  This has resulted in salmon running a bit later than normally but now they are finally home. We have had reports of numerous rivers where the first salmon have been see, Laxa Kjos, Laxa Leirarsveit, Elliðaár – to name a few. …

We have a great variety of fishing open in September both full service and self-catering. We have for example slots in Stora Laxa in beats with both two and four rods and in Tungufljot which is sold as single rods on daily basis. We have rods in both the Ranga Rivers which are full service. The autumn is a good …

Yesterday the Icelandic government decided that the country would be open for travelers from June 15th with restrictions.  Iceland will allow travelers to arrive offering three precautionary options which they can choose from. The first one is to stay in quarantine for two weeks, the second one is to provide a virus free health certificate and the third option is …

We in Iceland have sadly not been left out of this awful pandemic which has affected our world greatly in the past months. But we can proudly say we are almost over the hill now here in Iceland with hardly any new infections for the last few days. The total number of infections here in Iceland are to date 1801 …

The Asgard beat in river Sog not only has salmon in the summer time but also a healthy stock of arctic char. The char live year long in the river and thrive in the cold water. This sporing the fishing for the char has been nothing short of excellent with now close to 200 caught. Along with the char we …

We are finally getting some good weather here in Iceland after an awful winter with heavy snow and storms. Even though we had to suffer through it still it will have good effect on our rivers for the summer as now they have plenty of snow in the mountains for reserve. We also have good news on the awful pandemic …

Dear friends,   We at lax-A wish you and your family a happy Easter holiday. We are going through strange times in this world but here in Iceland things seem to be improving with less infections each day now. According to the scientists predictions we should be out of this in May here in Iceland. We pray that is the …