Management change on Langa
Fishing the Kattarfossbrún pool on Langa. Photo by Heimir Óskarsson.
Changes have been made on the management of Langa, as the Angling Club of Reykjavik has overtaken the former tenants deal following mutual consent. This is a direct relation to the hardships that most if not all angling outfitters in Iceland have been dealt by the economic crisis in Iceland.
The outgoing outfitter Lax ehf, one of this webs listed clients, was hit hard by the crisis and following several developments has found out that it cannot continue management of the river. The Angling Club of Reykjavik was in close collaboration with Lax ehf, purchasing half of the available rods on the river and following talks it was decided that the ACoR would overtake the management as their foundations are historically more founded, many of Lax ehf's clients being financial companies that have ceased to exist or are at best, in administration
“It was best this way, we couldn't carry on and this way the land owners and the rivers clients will be less affected,” Lárus Gunnsteinsson, Lax's chairman told us. Despite the setback concerning Langa, the outfitter continues to manage its other host of rivers, Hafralonsa, Laxa in Kjos, Svalbardsa, Vesturdalsa, Grimsa, Ulfarsa and Gljufura, all rivers listed on this website. Larus told us that despite the setback and the current state of affairs in Iceland, things were looking better on the selling front, more foreign anglers were coming to Iceland and many Icelanders were picking themselves up following the disaster and casting longing glances to the pristine rivers which will again be full of silvery torpedoes in four months time.
