Dear anglers, We bring you the first top ten list of the season. It is still early days but the fishing in general has been quite good and we are waiting for the first big grilse runs. River 27.6.2018 20.6.2018 13.6.2018 1 Þverá + Kjarará 452 238 124 2 Urriðafoss in Þjórsá 391 278 211 3 Norðurá 350 175 95 …

Beat four was the first beat to open in river Stora Laxa yesterday, the lower beats open on July 1st. Some may find it strange that the topmost beat opens first but the reason for that is that the early going salmon tends to go straight up. Salmon had been seen long before the opening and indeed there was salmon …

River Tungufljot opened yesterday. Only one rod fished the river on the opening day with very good results. Two salmon were landed in two hours, a 75 and 82 cm females. This is an excellent start to the river as usually it is best later in the season. We are optimistic for good runs in Tungufljot this summer and we …

Little Leirvogsa opened yesterday, June 24th for the season. And it did open with a bang, the two rods caught 11 salmon for the day and lost plenty as well.  The anglers reported that they had seen plenty of salmon in the lower part of the river. This is an excellent opening and hopefully and indicator of a good summer …

West Ranga opened this morning. Anglers were very excited as fish had already been seen in the river in the days before the opening. And the West did not disappoint, 10 salmon were caught in the first shift – all healthy MWS up to 100cm. Yes you read correctly, one of the fish was a stunning 100cm fish estimated well …

The Kola river in Russia opened in the beginning of June and the catch so far has been good. Up until now the fish are all massive MWS and the largest ones so far a three 107 cm fish. In the week from June 10-16th 54 salmon were caught with an average size of 89 CM or  8,8kg – that …

Now there are almost two weeks since the first rivers opened in Iceland and the catch so far has been good. River Blanda and Norðurá were the first to open and for the first 8 days Blanda gave 52 salmon and Nordura 95. The largest salmon so far is a 97cm 10kg male from Blanda, pictured with this article. We …

My great friends Rafal Kaminski and Grzegorz Loszewski are having a great time on the Kola river Russia Kola Peninsula , fighting and landing great silver fish!!!! I am leaving with in a week for the same adventure ! 🙂  Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

I was going out of Reykjavik and had a short stop below the bridge on the little Leirvogsa looking for Salmon , and what a surprise I spotted 3 big fresh beautiful Salmon in the pool Mohylur , it is very early as Leirvogsa opening is not until end of this month , great news!!! Leirvogsa https://www.lax-a.net/salmon-fishing-iceland/leirvogsa/  , Arni arnibald@lax-a.is  

Now the first rivers have opened in Iceland. River Nordura opened first and the opening there gave 24 salmon, next in line was our very own Blanda which gave 23 salmon from the opening two days on four rods. River Þverá/Kjarrá opened yesterday and the opening day gave 30 salmon which is an excellent result. The remaining rivers will open …