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.

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.

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.

Fishing on the Nes beats has not yet started, however beats further downriver on the Big Laxa in Adaldal were opened for fishing yesterday morning. Two huge salmon were landed!

Iceland‘s biggest salmon so far was caught this morning on the Big Laxa in Adaldalur. The river already had the biggest one this season, so it now has the two biggest salmon of 2009. The fish this morning was a 107 cm long cock fish weighed in at 13 kilos, 26 local pounds, and over 28 lbs.

Recently the big Laxa in Adaldalur had registered 700 salmon which is a better total than at the same point last season. 200 of those were caught on the Nes beats that we represent on this web. Both beats have had their fair share of overweight salmon and this river is beyond doubt Icelands best „big fish river“

The Nes beats on the big Laxa have been enjoying the luxury of having few if any grilse interfearing with the average weight of salmon caught on the beats so far. The weight has been close to 17 pounds which is remarkable but will not last once the grilse arrive.

The Nes beats on the big Laxa in Adaldalur are producing their usual huge supsects these days. There have been grilse running the lower beats of the Laxa but for some reason they have not added to the big fish on the Nes beats. So, the average weight up there is quite awesome at the moment.

The fishing has been picking up gradually on the big Laxa in Adaldalur over the past several days. The river is more quality than quantity with big salmon featuring more regularly than on most other rivers. There have been several 20-pound-plus so far this season.

So it begins on the Nes beats on the Big Laxa in Adaldalur. Over the weekend three 20 plus pounders were caught on the beats and the group that was fishing had one grilse out of fourteen landed salmon, with each and everyone of the mws‘s 12 pounds or bigger.

The first twenty pounders have been landed already as the trend from last season starts again. Early last season saw more than usual very big salmon in various rivers and it looks like the same again.

We hear that the Big Laxa in Adaldal has had a very promising start to the new season, with two rods starting below the Aedarfossar this morning landing four very good mws‘s on various tube flies. The Big Laxa is a fly only catch and release fishery these days so all were released.

We earlier ran an item about Iceland‘s rock star in chief, Bubbi Morthens, writing a book about the Nes/Árnes beats of the famed Laxa in Adaldal. The project has since gathered a head of steam as he has aquired huge amounts of old movie footage, never before seen or shown publicly.

The Atlantic salmon season of 2009 is fast building on the horizon. And it comes on the back of such a stunning record season that hardly anybody knows what to expect this year. But for the most part people have concluded that the coming season has a considerable margin for slipping from 2008 without losing a label of excellence.

Icelandic rock icon and avid fly fisher Bubbi Morthens is writing a book about the Nes beats on Laxá í Aðaldalur. After his introduction to the Nes area he hooked and landed several big salmon and lost amonster estimated by the guides at being somewhere in between 30 and 40 pounds.