First day on Kola river , bright sun and warm , water is rather high but conditions is perfect for good fishing , they are coming … 65 fish released from the trap on the lower river yesterday … we could not find them and we landed only 2 to day … 22 pounder and a 8 pounder to 4 …

Our Canadian friends landed 32 Salmon from beat 1 Blanda for the last two days all on the floating line … fantastic to see this big springers rush to the surface grabbing the fly  , great runs coming in on every tide … close to 300 salmon already through the counter to the upper beats , beat 2 – 3 …

Arrived in Murmansk to day and now in Camp on the Kola river , fishing starts to morrow morning and I will stay for 2 weeks , meet the anglers coming back from the river .. just now , river have been rising last 2 days and fishing slow , now steady and starting to drop to night so fishing …

Salmon have already been seen in few places on the West Ranga , that is very very early as West Ranga is not open until after 3 weeks , but great strong sign for a great start!  Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

Great start on the Nordura river , first five hours of the beginning of the Icelandic Salmon fishing 8 salmon landed and numbers lost as well …. looks great and must be the best start for a long time , Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

They are already having good action and catching fish on the Kola river , conditions are great and river already getting close to summer levels  ,  next 2 weeks will be fantastic on the Kola river that is for sure , Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

It looks like there is a reasonable start for Salmon fishing , I was told that in Gaulfossen at Gaula Norway they did well the first day 23 large salmon , Alta opening they landed some Salmon , here in Iceland every day fresh news on Salmon being seen all over the place , I guess our openings will be …

The Salmon counter at the waterfalls at beat 1 Blanda was put down last Monday , the first 24 hours there where 27 salmon counted going through , upper beats .. beat 2. beat 3 and beat 4 will not open until 20th June , if keeps on going like this there will be Rock and roll up there on …

The East Ranga lodge will be open in the next few days .. after great great improvements that we have been working on all winter long , our carpenterGuðmundur Sigurbjörnsson and is crew have been doing such a great work! 🙂 …. this morning we where testing the breakfast buffet from cheff Björgvin … great treat!   Arni arnibald@lax-a.is

My good old friend from Austria Wilfried Striessnig caught this big beautiful Salmon from Lower Crathes / West Durris beat early May. I meet Wilfried first time in 1988 on the bank of Laxá in Kjos where we celebrated all time fishing record for the Kjos 3900 Salmon. Wilfriend then introduced me to the river DEE where we have been …