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 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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Fishing on the Hruta started on the first day of July and has been ticking along nicely since, although the water is now starting to run low. The fishing has been good and there have been some big fish lurking around.

One of the very biggest salmon landed off an Icelandic river so far this season came from the Breiddalsa a few days ago. It was a massive beast of 106 cm, weighed in the net at 12,5 kilos, 25 Icelandic pounds.

The usual huge suspects are being hooked and landed and released again on the Vatnsdalsa, as the fishing is picking up following some hot weather. Three of over 20 pounds were recently registered.

A huge salmon was caught on the famed Nes/Árnes beats on the Big Laxá several days ago. It measured 102 cm and weighed 23 Icelandic pounds, something like 25 lbs or so. It is one of the biggest so far in Iceland.

Breiddalsa was opened up for fishing at the turn of the month and despite heavy rain causing a flooding, there were several salmon hooked and landed, so everybody is happy out there in the east!

We reported earlier on Grimsa's outstanding first day as the catch exceeded 40 salmon. Well, it did not stop there did it? Following two days of fishing, 84 salmon had been landed and people were saying that it was perhaps the best start ever on Grimsa....

The fishing started on the Laxa in Kjos last Friday and despite low water conditions the fishing got off to a fine start, 13 salmon being landed on the first morning shift.

The Nes beats of Laxa in Adaldal have already produced the biggest salmon of the Icelandic season so far despite not having been formally opened yet. The fish, a 105 cm monster, was landed over the weekend on the famous Vitaðsgjafi pool.

Langa had an astonishing opening catch. A best ever record of 50 salmon for the starting party. The best previous starts have been somewhere around 25-30 fish so we will be wondering where this will lead us.

Fishing the remote northeast Hafralónsa started wedensday morning and the anglers on location reported that the river has some very strong early runs this year. They had landed ten mws's on two rods on the first three shifts.