We just heard from our guys in Blanda that the fishing there is still going strong and new fish are pouring in on every tide. Usually the fishing slows down a little after the opening but not this year, the river is absolutely full of salmon. Over 300 salmon have now gone upstream thought the counter which is a record …

Now guides are fishing the East Ranga to take the big early springers for the hatchery …. fish are so early and already in numbers in East Ranga , yesterday there where 18 good salmon landed ! Looks very promising for the summer indeed …  Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

Kola river to day , we are not catching numbers but what we are catching is very big fish , here is my super guide Pasha holding my morning catch , 106 cm long 56 cm over the belly , LOOP Cross 1 15 foot and my strong LOOP Evotec reel did great job on this fish. Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

49 salmon landed in the morning from Thvera and Kjarra river  , and 80 Salmon played  … this is amazing opening , Iceland is cool this spring big fish all over the place …. Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

First day on Kola river , bright sun and warm , water is rather high but conditions is perfect for good fishing , they are coming … 65 fish released from the trap on the lower river yesterday … we could not find them and we landed only 2 to day … 22 pounder and a 8 pounder to 4 …

Our Canadian friends landed 32 Salmon from beat 1 Blanda for the last two days all on the floating line … fantastic to see this big springers rush to the surface grabbing the fly  , great runs coming in on every tide … close to 300 salmon already through the counter to the upper beats , beat 2 – 3 …

Arrived in Murmansk to day and now in Camp on the Kola river , fishing starts to morrow morning and I will stay for 2 weeks , meet the anglers coming back from the river .. just now , river have been rising last 2 days and fishing slow , now steady and starting to drop to night so fishing …

We at Lax-A are proud to introduce a new river for the 2017 season. We have just leased river Leirvogsá for the next four years. Leirvogsá has constantly been one of Iceland’s best rivers when you look at salmon to rod ratio. In fact there has only been one two rod river slightly better in the country – the famous …

We have just started the season here in Iceland with an absolute Bang with a big B. River Norðurá opened on June 4th with 27 salmon caught on the first day and a total of 76 salmon after two and a half day. All very well kept two year salmon over 70 Cm, four grilse were also reported. This is …

After  the first 2.5 amazing days there have been 99 salmon landed in Blanda river beat 1 up north in Iceland. This was only on 4 rods and all salmon were from 78 to over 100cm long! The opening party has been nothing but smiles since the last shift ended and that was with a bang. We had 98 salmon …