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I am back in Iceland for one of my favourite times of year. My 19th year on the Sela with friends. I often try and visit other rivers before arriving at Sela or try and do a little extra fishing. But this year, instead of ‘gunning’ it to a river, I planned to research more what many of my clients …
Record salmon in Selá The biggest salmon ever caught at Selá was landed this morning in Skipahylur. Cockfish 109 cm in length and 28 lbs in weight. The salmon was caught on a 7 weight LOOP rod 9,6 foot and took a hitched fly on hook size 14 with a 12 pound nylon. Salmon catches have been good this year …
In some ways arriving at Alta is the absolute best bit. It is when all the anticipation is at its greatest and it is a chance to simply enjoy the town of Alta, the place, the atmosphere, the characters that I fish with as well as those I have grown to know over 22 years. That in itself is crazy. …
I am pleased and proud to say that I took the grouse photo for the front cover of this quarter’s Summer Edition of Fieldsports Magazine as well as the pigeon shot on page 144!
This is about as classic as it gets for a spring Home Pool evening. The glow of the midnight sun, wonderful water, good aggressive fish fighting hard. The first fish is a 10lbs summer run, the second that rose first time and eventually took the skater but did not hook-up was also a summer run of the same size or …
This is fishing below camp on Upper Gold Beach beat or 'Pilots' beat as it was once called. No longer fished by the pilots! The fish is about a 9lbs fish. It arrived in the autumn early enough to colour somewhat but is as aggressive and strong as ever as you can see. Here, at this height, one simply walks …
This is a good example of what guests can enjoy any evening or morning on the Ponoi as well as Home Pool. Walk up or down river, here a walk up river for about 15 mins. Look for interesting water, of which there is tons and start fishing. Note the walking in the tundra is easy and along the bank …
The last time I had dealings with the Norwegian Flyfisher’s Club (NFC) was way back in 1990 or so. It was at a time when it was just getting going and things were a little disorganised for my taste! But, hat’s off to Manfred Raguse who kept it going and here we are today celebrating 25 years and a new …
I have been very lucky to be a guest of my good friend Dieter again this year. I am days away from being able to comment on my first stop in Norway but I arrived at Alta airport on 27th and picked up the car which was kindly lent to me and headed the 2 hours north to Lakselv. It …
I have just got back from Iceland where I went to see the ThveraKjarra rivers for the first time. Having been to Iceland for over 20 years, it might strike you as odd that I have not been to these prestigious rivers that so many seek to get on. Well, the reason is that they have been an almost closed …