We have two small rivers up in west Iceland – Langadalsa and Hvannadalsa.  They  are sister rivers and share the same river mouth but like many sister they are totally each to their own in character. Langadalsa is the more productive river with an average catch of close to 300 salmon. The river hardly has any rapids just slow flowing …

Another week has gone and the fishing has been better in some rivers after it finally rained. We have a new entry in the 10th place – Laxá í Dölum with a weekly catch of 215 salmon on its six rods. River 10.8.2016 10.8.2016 Weekly catch Rods Per rod per day Final 2015 1 Ytri-Rangá & Hólsá 4664 5467 803 …

We have been crunching the numbers from East Ranga this summer and have discovered a very interesting fact. In the summer of 2016 the river has given 2481 salmon but only just over 300 of them have been grilse, the rest all multiyear salmon! Over 2000 multiyear salmon have been caught in East Ranga this summer and some of them …

I am at the Stora Laxá beat 4 at the moment , water have gone up from 5 cubic meters to 12 cubic meters , now falling again , I hope that this rise of water have produced some good runs on the lower river , up here we are catching a few fish. Tómas Sigurðsson Sonur Óbyggðanna did very …

Great afternoon on the Tungufljot river , I spend couple of hours with Jonas our river keeper at the Tungufljot river this afternoon , and there was some nice two winter salmon running , with in two hours we landed 6 good salmon , I think good 6 weeks of fishing is coming up at Tungufljot river … Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

Salmon running Tungufljot , fish are coming in bigger numbers now , 3 landed yesterday , 6 the day before , and on Thursday and Friday landed 4 salmon each day , good news as the best time for Tungufljot is coming up now , Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

I have just updated our photos and information on Blanda river beat 1. Here you can click the link and see new photos in all tabs from this season: https://www.lax-a.net/blanda-beat-1/ For more information about the Blanda please contact: valgerdur@lax-a.is All my best, Vala

As you might have heard fishing has been a bit slow in many rivers in Iceland the last weeks.  Not entirely because of lack of salmon because there is indeed salmon in healthy numbers in most rivers. The trouble so far has been lack of water. We have had hardly any rain in the past month or more which is …

I am at the Stora Laxá beat 4 to day , interesting day , in the morning i hooked 6 salmon at the Lower Homepool and landed 4 , all on the riffling hitch , this all in one hour , and then no action for the rest of the day … !!! This is what makes salmon fishing so …

Another week and another list. The total catch from our top ten rivers was 1895 salmon. Not a massive catch but still with conditions as they are quite okay, 1895 memories made! Now it is finally starting to rain, lets see if the fishing picks up. River 3.8.2016 10.8.2016 Weekly catch Rods Per rod per day Final 2015 1 Ytri-Rangá …