River Blanda in north Iceland opened at 7:00 today(05.06.18). Conditions were not ideal as the river was high in water and a little colored due to snow melt in the mountains. Still the four rods managed to catch 10 salmon on the first shift and many were lost. The largest salmon was 18 pounds and all the salmon caught were …

River Nordura open up this morning and Salmon have already been landed. This afternoon we will drive up north for the opening on the Blanda river , fishing starts sharp at 07:00 tomorrow morning. River is on high spring water and colored , but still good for fishing , we will catching them tomorrow if they are already there , …

The West and East Ranga are two of Iceland best rivers with a catch of many thousand salmon each year. For the past few years the West river has been better but we are optimistic the East river will catch up this year and the reason being that we tripled the smolt release in to the system. We have a …

In only six days river Blanda will open. Needless to say we are getting very excited, conditions are promising and we are optimistic for a good start. The record for the opening of the river was set in 2016 with 99 salmon caught on the four rods in the first two days. We are hardly going to see numbers like …

Yesterday the first salmon fishing river opened in Iceland. The river is one of Iceland’s largest glacial rivers, river Þjórsá. Þjórsá has the largest salmon stock in Iceland but it is mainly fished with nets as the water is murky. Recently they tried fishing a certain beat with rods with good success. On the first day 10 two year salmon …

Last call for Lower Yokanga 23 – 30th June next. We have 2 rods available during this prime week on the Lower Yokanga , but there is only 8 days left in time to get the Visa invitation letter so if you are keen and have the time please hurry up and contact us and we will make all the …

Spring is here and the first openings on the Icelandic salmon rivers coming up soon or around the 5th June , Blanda will open , Nordura , Thvera and Kjarra as well. For sure we have plenty plenty of water so conditions is great for June and I would guess for July as well even with out rain. Salmon have …

Last June availability in Blanda beat 1. Here is few openings on Blanda beat 1 in June , beat 1 is only 4 rods and for sure the best spring fishing in Iceland , open dates are 2 rods 7 – 9th June , 4 rods 9 – 14th June and 2 rods 20 – 23rd June. Salmon is large …

Life has a way of putting us where we need to be. For Vala, that’s in both Greenland – where she works at her family’s fishing lodge – and Reykjavík, where she teaches her daughter how to do it all on her own, too. Link to the film here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERjQ7hcVxus  Starring: Valgerður “Vala” Árnadóttir Mathilda Magdalena Production company: Tributaries Digital Cinema …

Now there are only 15 days until the first salmon rivers open for fishing in Iceland. One of the rivers is our own Blanda River up north. Blanda has a healthy stock of early arriving multiyear salmon, it is very unusual if there is not a salmon caught on the opening day in the river. During prime time it was …