Big one from Midfjardara

108 cm cock fish from the Austuira tributary. Biggest for Midfjardara this season so far.

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.

Very few of the biggest fish are weighed these days as most of them are put back into the rivers and very few rivers have guides equipped with landing nets with built in scales. So the weight of individual fish is guessed according to a pound-per-centimeter formula cooked up by the leading Icelandic fisheries biologists. According to the formula, the salmon, caught in the tributary Austura, might have weighed 12,4 kilos, or just under 25 Icelandic pounds, close to 27 lb.

Midfjardara, which had a stunning record season last year, producing 4.004 salmon, is doing very well again although the new record is set to be intact. Still the river has produced around 2.000 salmon at this moment and will go far above the average catch over the last decade.