Skoga: Big one, good runs and a humpback!
Big one from Skoga this week.
Skoga is doing well these days and yesterday the rivers biggest salmon so far was landed, a huge cock fish weighing in the excess of 9 kilos, over 18 pounds Icelandic. Skoga also had a rare visitor recently, a humpback salmon, the fourth recorded in Iceland this season.
An angler we spoke to told us that the last three day group had landed over forty salmon and his group had 29 over the space of two days. One of them was the big one. Most of the salmon running these past several days have been fresh, either recently entered or with sea lice hanging on.
The humpback was a small specimen, they all are. We have four at least this year and most years several are recorded. These date back to Stlins regime in the Soviet Union when he for some reason decided to implant the humbacks into several rivers on the Cola peninsula. They were probably thought to be cheap and easy to access food for the starving . But ever since they have been straying to rivers all over the North Atlantic. It is said that they breed in some of the Russian rivers. Perhaps elsewhere. Only the male salmon are recorded for their distinct look. The female looks very much like a sea char so they may well have been caught in Iceland every now and then, while the anglers have failed to notice that there was somthing different going on!
