Strengir

Hello clients and friends!

Following a long and rather difficult winter, the season of 2015 is finally upon us. Over the first two days it stayed dead winter, minus ten celcius, stiff northeastern winds, but then the degrees started to build up gradually. All in all we have had a cold, yet successful opening.

As usual the main focus in April is on the sea trout that are retreating from the rivers over the months of April and May. Very many of them are in amazing condition, especially following a cold winter as we have had this year. Most of the sea trout rivers are in the Southeast, close to the village of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. One of our rivers, the Tungulækur is not as suspect to frost as most of the others and it started with a bang despite the sub-zero tempertures. The first group landed 300 sea trout, the biggest ranging to a whooping 90 cm and very many being 60 cm-plus. As the wind died down at dusk, several were even taken by hitching small tubes! About 400 fish have now been caught totally on the first six days of the season and on 3-4 rods only!

But April does not only involve sea trout, several non migratory trout fisheries open up as well, one of them being one of our main flagships, the Minnivallalækur, with its worldwide reputation for huge brown trout. April the 1rst was a minor disaster though, as the people fishing the river encountered  double figure celcius statistics plus an icy northern wind. They spent most of the day in the hot tub at the lodge! However, the next day was fairly warmer, and the trout reminded everyone that they were indeed there. One angler landed three over the day, one of them a huge old brown, 78 cm. Lost another one of similar proportions. The next group did even better, had landed six and lost as many in one and a half days when we heard from them. So, Minni is back.

The salmon season is still a long way off and we are quietly optimistic despite last seasons shock downturn. Many of the vital signs tell us that we might well have a little faith in the returns this year.  Having said that, we still have openings in some of our major rivers, notably Breiðdalsá and Jökla. We could even put together a thrilling combo, fishing both of them in the same trip, as they are not that far apart. Actually very close to each other. Also, we can still put you up with the world class sea trout fishing of Tungulækur this year and the unique fishing for ice age browns in Minnivallalækur as well, also a great combo of both. You just have to contact us and we will make it happen

Hope to be off assistance planing your dream trip in 2015!

Throstur Ellidason