Iceland – trout fishing

[Henry Gilbey]

I suppose that Iceland is known mainly for it’s awesome level of Atlantic salmon fishing, but there is some seriously cool fly fishing for big wild brown over there – they have taken them to over 13lbs on the river we fished/photographed for a couple of days !! Technical stuff, dry flies especially good, here are a few photos from last week (my first time there) :

[Henry Gilbey]

Here are a couple more photos :

I also found out that there is some outstanding sea trout fishing over there (do you guys call them sea run browns ?) – fish over 20lbs taken every year.

A load of photos from the trip are here (salmon and trout) :

http://www.henry-gilbey.com/fishing_pictures/iceland_salmon_and_trout_fishing.html

[lauren]

Wow!  Henry – some really nice shots there!   😮

[Corey Kruitbosch]

Awesome shots Henry! I particularly like R_DI2065.jpg for the scenery alone.. What a stunning setting.

[Ben Cochran]

Great shots Henry!!!! Love the feel that they all posses and the landscape is amazing, guess I must of misplaced my invite :D. Glad to see you and some of your work on this board :).

[Henry Gilbey]

Thanks so much for the kind comments – what a place, and we lucked out with the weather big time. But I am always prepared to shoot virtually whatever the weather does. Every piece of water seems to have its own character – they are having a huge run of salmon this year, saw loads of them in the clear waters.

Have not experienced 24hr daylight for a couple of years, forgotten how strange it is. The first three photos were taken at around 10 or 11pm – after a fairly grey flat day, the light suddenly started firing closer to midnight. Kind of messes with your head a bit.

Going to try and go back next year, so much more to do…….

[David Anderson]

Wow !

Iceland looks awesome in these shots and others I’ve seen over the years – would love to fish there.

(sitting now)

Is it expensive ?

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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.

[Henry Gilbey]

I’m not quite sure how to gauge “expensive” – the trout fishing I know tends to work out cheaper than the salmon fishing, and getting to Iceland is pretty straight forward, from the UK anyway. I believe it is fairly easy from the US as well……..

I would hazard a guess that this year especially there are some deals around.

Speak to the guys I went with if it would help http://www.aardvarkmcleod.com – they do Iceland big time. I will be going back.

[Bryan Gregson]

I just added Iceland to a ‘must’ do to the life list [was a ‘hope’ to do]… great capture of what looks to be an amazing place.

Great post… thanks!

[Henry Gilbey]

Apart from the insane trout fishing, they are having a seriously good year on the (Atlantic) salmon front – lots of rivers are stuffed full of small-medium fish, but a few of the rivers are known for throwing up bigger fish……..

Gotta go back.

[John Bennett]

Sweet stuff Henry.

/adds Iceland to the bucket list

[lee church]

Sweet!

[mark s]

Henry, did you by chance ask them if prices or the tourism has been affected since the essential collapse (and bankruptcy) of their economy?

[Henry Gilbey]

Mark – I was expecting the place to be horribly expensive, but as you say, things seemed to be fairly cheap. The guy who was helping us out was really upbeat about life, but then he is more often than not working with foreign clients coming in for the fishing………

This same guy is the person who has had sea trout (sea run browns) of 21, 22, and 23lbs from a river in Iceland – got to see me some of them !!

[mark s]

I think this:  

This same guy is the person who has had sea trout (sea run browns) of 21, 22, and 23lbs from a river in Iceland

equals this:  

The guy who was helping us out was really upbeat about life

At least it would for me….

[Henry Gilbey]

Could not agree more – the world could collapse around me and I would be just fine if I was catching fish like that……

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