Minnivallalaekur: Yet another huge brown trout
The latest of a long line of umbelievable brown trout from Minnivallalaekur, an 81 cm cock fish in great condition! The estimate for this fish is 15 to 16 pounds. Could be more but hardly less.
Yet another huge, huge brown trout has been recorded from the Minnivallalaekur in south Iceland. It was a stunning specimen of 81 cm and an estimated 15-16 pounds! It is the second in this immense size catergory this spring and there haave been several very big ones as well, although not THIS big.
The huge fish was caught at the weekend in the Stöðvarhylur pool. It took a home made improvised streamer fly and was landed only after a titanic struggle. For those more aquainted with inch measurements, this is a 32 inich monster and in great shape as well. The group hooked up with several big browns in various pools, the best of the rest being a 68 cm, 27 inch, brown that managed to pull out line despite the reel brake being put on full stop to prevent it running under an barbed wire fence crossing the river! The angler had to bend over and crawl under the fence in mid-river in order to get back on level ground with the fish. He eventually landed it and released it.
Fishing in a dramatic setting. How often do you fish with an erupting volcano as a backdrop?
It was a memorable fishing trip for this group, as the Eyjafjallajökull volcano is in full view from Minni on a clear day. By day they fishing with the eruption right in front of them, end in the evenings they sat on the veranda watching the flashes of fire and lightning over the volcano in the dark as they reflected on the days fishing!
Of note: The eruption in Eyjafjallajökull that has disrupted flights all over the world has lost a lot of power and is belching far less ash. The ringroad has been opened to traffic again which means that we will soon have some news on the sea trout rivers in the Vestur Skaftafellssýsla region. Several of Icelands main spring fisheries are in that region and they have been unaccessable up to now due to closed roads, the immense ash fall and the general unpredictability of the situation.
