Another week and many salmon caught. The East Ranga is absolutely on fire with almost 1000 salmon caught in one week. We still have some last minute rods there this summer. Johann David – jds@lax-a.is River Final number 2019 5.júl.20 16.júl.20 1 Eystri Rangá 3048 667 1572 2 Urriðafoss/Þjórsá 747 589 633 3 Ytri Rangá 1635 378 575 4 Norðurá 577 …

Dear anglers, We gladly bring you the first top ten list of 2020. As you can see the East Ranga is absolutely on fire in the top place. We heard that just on the morning shift today they caught 82 salmon from the river! Tight Lines Johann David – jds@lax-a.is River Final number 2019 5.júl.20 1 Eystri Rangá 3048 667 2 …

We the inhabitants of this small island nation have thankfully been very successful in handling of the Covid pandemic and now our borders are open again for travelers. To enter the country you must take a test at the airport and then go straight to your Hotel room to await the results. If you are healthy you are good to …

The First Icelandic salmon rivers to open have now been fished for  over a week. Norðurá had a good start but was a bit slower in the days after which is normal, now the fishing is picking up again.  Blanda opened under new rules of fly only and the opening was a success when you factor in the river was …

Nordura opened yesterday, 4th June, a beautiful day with happy anglers and 10 salmon caught for the day. At lunchtime today two were added and a few lost. Blanda river then opened this morning, 5th June, and at lunchtime 5 salmon have been landed. At Thvera, which also opened this morning, 3 had been caught and 3 lost before lunch. …

A guide was walking the lower section of river East Ranga and saw a 14-16 pound bright salmon jumping in pool Bátsvað. Earlier in the same day two mvs were caught in the Hólsá which is lower in the Ranga water system. We are very excited to hear the salmon has arrived in Ranga and we are very optimistic for …

The spring has been on the colder side in Iceland this year and the water temps colder than usual.  This has resulted in salmon running a bit later than normally but now they are finally home. We have had reports of numerous rivers where the first salmon have been see, Laxa Kjos, Laxa Leirarsveit, Elliðaár – to name a few. …

We have a great variety of fishing open in September both full service and self-catering. We have for example slots in Stora Laxa in beats with both two and four rods and in Tungufljot which is sold as single rods on daily basis. We have rods in both the Ranga Rivers which are full service. The autumn is a good …

Yesterday the Icelandic government decided that the country would be open for travelers from June 15th with restrictions.  Iceland will allow travelers to arrive offering three precautionary options which they can choose from. The first one is to stay in quarantine for two weeks, the second one is to provide a virus free health certificate and the third option is …

We in Iceland have sadly not been left out of this awful pandemic which has affected our world greatly in the past months. But we can proudly say we are almost over the hill now here in Iceland with hardly any new infections for the last few days. The total number of infections here in Iceland are to date 1801 …