Jokla is looking like a great success story
The Jokla beats are coming alive these days, at a far earlier stage than before. Already fifty salmon have been landed but at the same stage last year only a handful of salmon had been caught. The runs are good these days, and despite these rivers being cold, hitching has nevertheless been given results.
Kalda is one of the Jokla tributaries. Kalda means literally „cold river“ and two foreign guests were not expectiong much having taken the rivers temperture and found it to a mere 5 centigrade which is true to the rivers chilly name. However, they hooked and landed five salmon by hitching on the first pool they tried. They also found that there were fish in various pools on the river. According to Throsyur Ellidason, the outfitter and architect to the smolt rleasing project on the rivers, the news is almost to good to be true, as July has so far been a sort of a sore thumb, with anglers not wanting to try the beats out at such an early stage fearing that the fish were not in. This year several anglers have indeed given it a go and found that the fish were in and running!
In the photo, a fossilized troll seems to be observing the pool on the Kalda, jokla's biggest tributary, somehow watching over it however ridiculous that may sound. But the face is there and the Icelandic countryside ipacked with these stone faces. The photo is by our staff member Jón Eyfjörð who fished the Jokla system last season and had a great time, catching both salmon and stationary brown trout and char.
