Yesterday evening some of the Lax-Á team went on a few hours of fishing in Þingvallavatn. The winds were very calm and the evening sun shined beautifully on the surrounding mountains. Our Director of Sales, Jóhann Torfi Ólafsson performed very well and caught this beauty. Well done! // LAX-Á TEAM

West Ranga is one of the best known salmon river in Iceland. It is not only known for its quality fishing and great variety of fishing pools but also for the high volume of salmon caught there every year. The quantity of salmon speak for itself as the West Ranga usually ends as the most productive salmon river in Iceland.   …

We have to offer great opportunity to fish the legendary Norðurá River in Iceland this summer. The river has 170 marked pools to fish and is divided into two beats, one full service and one self-catering. Norðurá, along with Blanda River up North, offers the first Salmon fishing possibilities in Iceland every season, as they both start early June. The …

Arni Baldursson caught a beautiful salmon at Birse beat on the Dee yesterday, another one was lost shortly before. Both were at the Tree pool. Although the fishing has been slow on the Dee this season we have been lucky that the Lower Crathes beat has been the most successful on the river and in fact has had better catches …

We went and opened our beat in Lake Þingvallavatn yesterday. The weather conditions were pretty awful as you can see from the picture below shot through the car windshield. But when in Iceland you just dress accordingly and go fishing! I have never in my life caught anything sitting in the car! At first the wind was blowing so hard …

Many of the Trout Rivers and lakes in Iceland opened for business on the 1st of April. Spring is prime time for the sea-trout rivers and most of them yielded very good catches during the opening days. Some rivers were unfishable simply because they were still frozen solid but the winter in Iceland has been extremely harsh with more snowfall …

To us fishermen size matters. We are always after that large one – the trophy fish of our dreams. In Iceland a few of those monsters are caught every year, sadly they are less common now than in the good old days. But there is hope, with catch and release more widely practiced the large ones are returning. Many over …

Not quite, but still with the opening of the season around the corner we feel just like kids before Christmas… The trout fishing season in Iceland starts in just a week from now when many rivers and lakes open for business. April is a prime month for sea-trout fishing and the opening slots in many of our top sea-trout rivers …

The most common freshwater fish in Iceland is the good old brown trout. If you see a lake in Iceland you can be pretty sure that a few brownies reside under surface. But not all brown trout are created equal. In a few lakes in the country the trout can grow up to enormous sizes and one of the lakes …