News
Tungulaekur: Sea trout and a big salmon!
Tungulaekur has been producing good sea trout catches over the past few weeks and the runs are getting steadier and bigger by the day. A twenty pound salmon was caught on the river a week ago!
Good going on the Grimsa
Grimsa has been doing very well this season despite some long draughts. Grimsa has a more stable flow than most westland rivers and so has kept its high standard better.
Svalbardsa doing well
Svalbardsa in the northeast is doing very well and has good runs containing both grilse and mws‘s. There was a spell when long standing draught were beginning to tell, but the problem passed and the river has been healthy.
Minni very lively these days
Brown trout fishing on the Minnivallalækur has been normal this season and two main topics make for great news. There are more very big fish around than in recent years, and there are more small fish as well which bodes well for the coming season.
Anglers first is seasons biggest!
The season biggest salmon so far was recently landed and released on the Nes beats on the „Big“ Laxa in Adaldalur. It was a whopping 109 cm cock fish, weighing aprox 26 to 27 pounds. It was the anglers first ever salmon, so many an angler has started off worse!
Big one from Midfjardara
Many Icelandic rivers have boasted more big salmon than usual comparing to the recent decade. Recently Midfjardara popped up with a 108 cm salmon, the rivers biggest for quite a few years. It is also the second longest so far pulled out of an Icelandic river this season.
Vatnsdalsa: High average weight
Most rivers in Iceland are doing very well this season despite some draught disruptions, however there is a lack of grilse in many of the northland rivers resulting in higher average weights than we have seen for many years. Which also means of course that there are more mws's around.
More huge fish than usual!
We had a talk with Orri Vigfússon, the chairman on the NASF, we actually met him without a plan in the northeast Vopnafjodur. He told us of an astonishing average weight on the “big” Laxá this year.
The editors unforgetable fishing trip!
Bob Sherwood, one of the main editors of the Financial Times had the time of his life the other week as he was the guest of the NASF's Orri Vigfússon on the Sela and Big Laxa.
Svalbardsa bucks the trend
Svalbardsa has opened with a bang. Its first day was July 1rst and already over a hundred salmon have been landed which is among the best starts ever for the river. Most of the fish so far have been mws's which is also great news.
