The Blanda beat 3 is truly a well kept fly fishing secret of Iceland. The Blanda is such a magnificent and interesting river, with massive beat 1, one of the best known rivers of Iceland and to the different and more challenging long beat 3 – one of the best kept secrets, still only a few km away from the …
Much better fishing than last year in Iceland
We are hearing from various rivers that the catches are much better than last year. River Norðurá is back to her good old self and has now over 700 salmon compared to 924 for the whole season last year. River Blanda is still going really strong and has now over 600 salmon. We heard of one group that caught 100 …
Great catch in Tungufljot trout beat
Þorsteinn was fishing the Tungufljot trout beat recently, this photo is from now, late June of Þorsteinn with a beautiful 63cm trout. Lax-á team is proud to offer this trout fishing beat to all of our enthusiastic anglers aking for big trout. The trout beat is a combination of 3 small rivers running into one big one. As you know the …
Stora Laxa beat 4 news and photos – high water
Friends of mine started fishing the Stora Laxa beat 4, the river is massive as there is much more water there then usual. The first days were slow because of the cold and high water which made it hard to find the fish. We hope the high water will though in fact bring lots of fish in so when the …
Blanda going strong – new numbers!
Blanda river is one of the few that is a great river early season and kick starts our salmon adventure in early June. This makes it quite unique and specially given the high number of salmon caught there, not to mention how big they are. The river divides into 4 beats but beat 1 of the river produces about 85% …
Salmon fishing in Iceland , Big Laxá Nes beat.
One of the best openings in years, 4 fish on the bank, a few lost… and lots of action with fish rising to the fly. Most action was on the home beats and above, much to our surprice since the lower beats were on fire last season…. Green Collie Bitch and Night Hawk was once again succesful. Nice size of fish, …
Brown trout fishing in Iceland , lake Thingvallavatn.
Nils Jorgensen just landed this huge fat 101 cm long Brown Trout from the lake Thingvallavatn , he also landed 95 and 90 cm fishes + many others 50 to 70 cm , what a day for Nils! Arni arnibald@lax-a.is
Season start at Lax-á Rivers
We have a few rivers that have opened this week. As you may have seen on the web page West Ranga opened with 25 fish just on the first six hours this morning. A great start. Hallá began its season with one salmon, but there were signs of new fish. Langadalsá and Hvannadalsá opened the same day this week. Unfortunately, …
First three days in Hallá
Our small salmon river up North, Hallá opened the 21st of June. As in many other rivers, anglers do not know what to expect the first days. Everything started quietly the first day and a half but yesterday morning a good run of salmon had gone up the river. This resulted in the first salmon of the season in the river caught …
Good runs continue in Iceland
The rivers in Iceland have had a good opening in general. We have already told you about the fine openings of Blanda and Norðurá and recently rivers Þverá and Kjarrá opened as well. We are delighted to report that river Þverá opened with 15 salmons caught and river Kjarrá with a whopping 34 salmon caught. So far the season has …