The salmon season is upon us! The first two rivers kick off on Saturday morning. In the west Nordura starts and up north the huge Blanda.

The eleventh day of September was the last day of the season on Nordura. For most of the season, long draughts have ravaged the water levels, rendering the fishing „difficult“. The long wait for the autumn rains was though finally over....on the 11th of September.

Nordura has been plummeting these past weeks due to the heat and lack of rain. However things are not as bad, water level wise, as the last two years, the fish are running and although the fishing is difficult due to the conditions, very respectable statistics are being filled into the catch book every day.

Nordura earlier this month became the first river in Iceland to reach a three figure catch when it slid over the 100-line. This morning the first three day fishing party of the season landed exactly 100 salmon from Nordura.

The rivers are opening upp one after another these days and the fishing is gradually picking up in the first starters. Yesterday, Nordura became the first to reach triple figures. Overall the first days and weeks have been pretty good and the signs are that substantial grilse runs are starting.

We had a very promising start to the start of the new salmon season. Six were landed on Nordura, one of our listed rivers, while another up north, Blanda, had two landed today.

The salmon season starts next Friday morning as two of Iceland‘s main rivers will be opened for fishing. They are Nordura in the west, and Blanda in the north. Salmon have been spotted in several rivers already so things are looking really good.

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.

Norðurá 2008 season was brilliant. The river finished with an astonishing total of 3.308 salmon which is a record catch for the river. It‘s former record was established in 2005 and totalled 3.138 salmon. This was not the least a superb season due to the fact that the water levels became very low for several weeks during prime time. It was much the same as in 2007, the main difference being that the runs this year were far, far more powerful and the fish were starting to run at an earlier date.