We are now in the final days of the 2020 season. As of yesterday 8,544 salmon and a few hundred sea trout have been landed in 115 days to an average of around 16 rods per day.

The ’prime’ season at East Ranga has ended, the all time record catch of 7,473 has been exceeded, and the lodge has now closed for the winter. The final month of fishing will become increasingly autumnal, and numbers of fresh fish entering the river will decrease to a trickl

We have been very lucky. The run this summer has been extraordinary, the season has gone past 6,500 salmon and still the river is receiving fish fresh off each tide.

As the total catch for the East Ranga passes 5,000 for the season, maybe its as good a moment as any to take a deep breath of fresh Icelandic air and reflect on the past 2 months.

It has rained so heavily, with sustained strong winds, that any fisher would have been forgiven for not venturing outside. Luckily no forgiveness was required as our intrepid fishers put (large) fly to water and landed over 600 salmon for the week.

This week we lost a couple of days’ fishing to impressive storms and rising coloured water. So to end the week with 680+ salmon landed to 12-17 rods was a great result.

July 26 saw records fall on East Ranga. The guides had whispered that if conditions were kind we could see a record daily catch. It happened. 223 Atlantic salmon landed in a single day

Thursday and Friday last week were all but written off due to huge rain, but Saturday saw the sun return and the fishing go utterly crazy.

The truth is we just don’t know why so many fish are running at this time. To land 900 Atlantic salmon is a week is not normal

This has been a staggering weeks’ fishing. Great conditions and very strong runs of fresh fish resulted in 503 salmon being landed

Please forgive so many updates in a short period of time, but we are getting excited.

The early season continues to get more exciting day by day. Reports are of lots of fresh fish running into the lower beats

The final days of June have been very encouraging with clearly good numbers of salmon

The opening days of the season were among the best for many years

At the time of writing we have some fantastic availability for fishers looking to catch some salmon this summer.

Iceland has been open and welcoming tourists from 15 June. There are of course some regulations

Despite heavy rain and gusty conditions, the East Ranga 2020 season started with a bang!

East Ranga Sporting ehf is delighted to announce that a new long term river lease has been agreed with the East Ranga River Owners Association.

In the back of your mind you are always aware that a volcano may erupt, or a earthquake shudder the ground, but this is something completely unexpected and more insidious.

Total Salmon Landed: 3048 Largest Fish: 25lbs x 2 (early July, released for the hatchery).