Laxá í Kjós Day Two

Two more beautiful Salmon today.

I think that the Bugða river, which is a tributary of the Laxá, is underrated. My biggest fish yesterday was caught in the Bugða, and I caught another there today. A hen of 68cm.

Released unharmed back into the river to breed more Salmon.

But my biggest and best fish of the trip came from a run just above the gorge on the Laxá.

A cracker of a fish. 86cm of pure muscle. A deep body. And look at the hook jaw on him! I saw him jump a metre clear out of the water, so I knew where he was. It was just a matter of getting the cast, the presentation and the drift of the fly just right. I got him on a fly tied by Siggy, my guide in the Langá. A simple fly tied in the black treble hook; a silver wrap with a bright orange wing. That fly is somewhere in the gravel on the bank of the river. Busted off when extracting this monster from Olli’s net. The catch made even better when the fish was released back into the stream.

Another stand out day on the Laxá. Jase and I have one more session tomorrow before we head off to the Varmá to target sea trout.

Rich