Podcast: Snaevarr Georgsson – Iceland Family Project
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Snaevarr Georgsson is an Icelandic angler whose family owns a trout stream in the northeast corner of the island. Don’t miss his amazing personal journey as he set about tagging and tracking his family fish!
Here is an album of Snaevarr’s amazing photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/snaevarr
This interview was a ton of fun.
Zach
That was a good listen. Thanks Zach.
I’m pretty jealous! I’ve hopefully another trip to Iceland next summer. A new airline is doing direct flights from Dublin to Reykjavik now so its actually become quite affordable.
I fished the Varma river which flows through the town of Hveragerdi. Its only 40mins from Reykjavik. It hold’s sea run browns and resident browns. Pretty reasonable priced fishing as well.
http://www.anglers.is/index.php/trout-and-arctic-char-rivers/varma-river
Finally got around to listening to some of the season 9 episodes on my drive home from Cleveland yesterday. Really enjoyed this episode, and was anxious to get home and check out the photos. Hope to see some followup posts on this family monster trout factory.
Thanks. I was posting regular updates last summer on reddit( http://www.reddit.com/user/Urridi/submitted/ ) where Zach noticed me. And I wouldn’t call it a trout factory, the river is cold and not rich of insect life so the population isn’t big. There are a lot of small trout but they seem to hit some kind of size barrier around 14″-16″, those who however do get big enough to eat the char can get really big.
Snaevarr have you checked the PH of your stream by any chance? I wonder if you have an acidity issue.
Actually yes, the PH in 2012 was around 8. Acidity is not a problem in Iceland. There have been done some studies that showed that the river is really suitable for small and young fish, there just isn’t enough food to sustain many big fish(unless they eat other fish). The conductivity is from 80-90 µS/cm which is good on Icelandic standard!
When I was a kid we were catching nice char in amongst the brown trouts, now with the warmer climate the brown trout have completely taken over(arctic char is … well, arctic, and likes colder water) and you don’t see any char anymore(other than the small ones that get swept down river and eaten). But in cold summers and summers that have a lot of snowmelt the river is still pretty cold for brown trout. Actually, 3 of the last 4 summers have either been really cold(2011) or had a lot of snowmelt throughout the whole summer(2013 and 2014). I’m hoping for normal water levels this summer with a bit less and warmer water for my trout 🙂
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