A surprising brown trout from Iceland’s Blanda River. Picture: Earl Harper through Hatch Journal
It appears exceptional that, on this age of nonstop Web fly-fishing protection, there can be a world-class fishery that remained underneath the radar. However plainly most folk haven’t heard of a selected gem within the northwestern highlands of Iceland. Writing in Hatch Journal, Chad Schmukler writes about a new fishing operation on Iceland’s Blanda River system, which is house to brown trout (sea-run and resident), Arctic char (sea-run and resident), and Atlantic salmon:
How nice is the true potential of this lengthy ignored trout fishery? A lot of that’s nonetheless unknown. The approaching seasons may have a lot to disclose, as visiting anglers ply the waters of the Blanda, the Svartá, and different small tributaries within the system each on foot and from rafts (a primary in Iceland for trout anglers), casting dry flies, dry-dropper rigs, nymphs and streamers into riffles, runs, swimming pools and pockets the place, in lots of instances, nobody ever bothered to search for trout earlier than.
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