A sensational brown trout from Iceland’s Blanda River. Image: Earl Harper through Hatch Publication
It appears exceptional that, in this age of continuously Web fly-fishing protection, there would be a first-rate fishery that stayed under the radar. However it appears that the majority of folks have not become aware of a specific gem in the northwestern highlands of Iceland. Composing in Hatch Publication, Chad Schmukler writes about a new fishing operation on Iceland’s Blanda River system, which is home to brown trout (sea-run and resident), Arctic char (sea-run and local), and Atlantic salmon:
How fantastic is the real capacity of this long neglected trout fishery? Much of that is still unidentified. The coming seasons will have much to expose, as checking out anglers ply the waters of the Blanda, the Svartá, and other little tributaries in the system both on foot and from rafts (an initially in Iceland for trout anglers), casting dry flies, dry-dropper rigs, nymphs and banners into riffles, runs, swimming pools and pockets where, oftentimes, nobody ever troubled to try to find trout before.
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