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August comes to a close

The second half of August saw a mixture of Icelandic, English and Spanish clients at East Ranga. Having worked our way through a month of low clear and cold water in search of rain; in late August we got it. All of it.

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Two Thousand

The fishing has slightly picked up as a few quieter beats started produce a few more fish. We have had a few days of 50 fish as well as a few 35-40. This has propelled us to 2000 fish.

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40%

We are regularly seeing fish in the high teens and early 20s and the percentage of multi sea winter fish so far is around 40%. A staggering statistic.

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THE THOU’

Yesterday we hit 1000+ fish. The river is in great condition and was carrying a little colour. The kind of colour we like. A greenish tint of melt water but not so coloured as to require enormous fly tactics.

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SALMON ALL ROUND

If you compare the ‘headline’ East Ranga catches year on year to 2020, you might think that 2021 is very, very slow fishing! However the quality and size of the fish being landed in 2021 is truly outstanding and certainly makes up in many respects for the sheer volume experienced in 2020.

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THE MIGHTY MIDFJARDARA

There was a distinct lack of water in the rivers of the Midfjardara, but despite that the fish were pushing into many of the beats and were frisky.

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BE PREPARED

The last few days has been really interesting. We had a team of mainly outright beginners at the lodge and despite only just learning to cast they did really rather well.

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THEY ARE COMING

The last few days have been really notable for big fish. We have seen a good number of fish over 100cms and many in the 80s and 90s. We have started to catch the odd grilse but the bulk of fish are multi sea winter fish and utterly stunning

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AN EPIC AFTERNOON

Yesterday afternoon was a real treat. We met up with Neal D on beat 7 and in his words he was “a bit down in the bows”. Fishing had been quite slow from coloured water and fish were being caught but just not on Neal’s beat.

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FIRST ARRIVALS

It’s been a funny run up to the season this year but luckily we have an incredibly capable team on the ground who have done a frankly incredible job transforming the lodge ready for 2021.

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FIRST SALMON FROM Borgarfjörður

The very first salmon caught in Borgarfjörður was landed today. The fish was caught by the acclaimed restaurateur Nuno Alexandre Bentim Servo.

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COSMOLEDO FISHING REPORT FINAL WEEK

The closing week of the Cosmoledo 2020-21 season did not disappoint! The nine anglers that joined us this week experienced super moon tides and sadly they lost two days to bad weather but this didn’t stop the team spirit or the energetic anglers.

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ALPHONSE FISHING REPORT FINAL WEEK

Four eager anglers descended onto the shores of Alphonse Island to enjoy the final week of the Alphonse Fishing season. Anglers were treated to fantastic weather and tides transitioning from spring to neap.

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COSMOLEDO FISHING REPORT WEEK 13 & 14

As the week's progress and the seasons change, we never really know how it will affect the fishing. Week 13 & 14 were excellent weeks despite tough conditions.

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ALPHONSE FISHING REPORT WEEK 25 & 26

The weather was great as the tides transitioned from spring tides to neap tides over the two weeks. We were joined by only a handful of anglers but still managed to record some great catches on the St Francios Atoll and Alphonse.

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AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE MISSED

TODAY MARKS THE LAUNCH OF A MOST WONDERFUL PRIZE DRAW:

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The Atlantic Salmon Trust are thrilled to run an exciting prize-draw, offering a fantastic fishing experience on the extraordinary and prolific East Ranga River for two rods, fishing six half day sessions over four days, fully guided.

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GET YOUR TACKLE CLEANED

We have recently had notification from the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) that from January 2021 there has been an important amendment to the laws surrounding the importation of used fishing tackle to Iceland. To simplify it now means that the lodges can carry out disinfection on arrival before fishing.

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ALPHONSE FISHING REPORT WEEK 17

It has been a brilliant week on Alphonse and St Francois Atoll. A few new friendly faces visited us for the week with Covid-19 restrictions easing up around the world.

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COSMOLEDO FISHING REPORT WEEK 7

After a four-week break, the season started up again with some familiar faces and a very excited guide team. The weather was not particularly stable with scattered rain and gusty wind conditions.

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East Ranga CATCH STATISTICS 2020 SEASON

One thing Iceland is well known for is recording catch statistics. Whilst a great resource the East Ranga report linked above offers much more detail in terms of a break down and analysis of beats through the months.

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