Bill Teesdale (on the right) landed this 100 cm 20 pound beauty from the Fossbreiða on Selá this week, helping with the dispaly is his guide Ólafur Már.
Another week another with anglers trying to grind out results in the midst of the lowest water conditions „ever“ as some of the older generations say. The new weekly statistics are along the same lines as before. Some rivers though are doing ok and there is more long awaited rain up and coming. So cross your fingers that the coming days will fruitful and the statistics next time will reflect on that. The problem is not no fish, it is to little water.
When you browse through the list below, it is plain to see that the larger volume rivers are where things are going more along the lines of what was expected. The Northeast stalwarts Selá, Hofsá and Jökla are in good condition and delivering at a rising rate. Miðfjarðará (in the western part of the north)is surpsisingly sprightly as there is extreme low water in the river system. Others in the region are desperately trying to go the the next level, which would be just south of average. Others doing well are mostly on the south coast, both the Rangá rivers, more notably though the East Rangá. The Urriðafoss beat on the mighty Þjórsá is also going well and tops the charts in Iceland so far.
Again, when you browse through the list, you will see that there is also the odd river that has been ok at best. Most of the West coast rivers do not make it to that though, there the draughts and rainless weeks have mostly devestated the fisheries. The fish are there but not the water. Salmon are also waiting in shoales outside the river mouths, waiting for the rain gods to loosen their grip. Which they might be thinking of doing over the weekend and into next week.
And so finally, the list. As before, the first numer is the current total, the next number is last weeks total. The following numbers are earlier week totatls, the newest coming first and so on.
Urriðafoss – 502 – 75 (108 – 63 – 72)
Eystri Rangá – 405 – 170 (142 – 63)
Miðfjarðará – 202 – 84 (55 – 39 – 24)
Blanda – 175 – 40 (25 – 25 – 31)
Ytri Rangá – 164 – 71 (36 )
Elliðaárnar – 153 – 72 (81 – 45)
Haffjarðará – 133 – 42 (51)
Brennan – 122 – 15 (15 14 -39 – 19 – 35)
Laxá í Aðaldal – 114 – 44 (26 )
Grímsá – 94 – 28 (35 – 21)
Þverá/Kjarrá – 91 – 62 (17)
Norðurá – 83 – 28 (26 -18 – 4)
Selá í Vopn – 62 – 46 (16)
Flókadalsá – 58 – 25 (33 – 16)
Víðidalsá – 57 – 21 (16 )
Hofsá í Vopn – 54 – 37 (13 – 4)
Langá – 51 – 16 (21 – 12)
Laxá í Kjós – 42 – 17 (19 – 3)
Jökla – 48 – 33 (14)
Vatnsdalsá – 42 – 21 ( 8 )
