This morning just before 8am, I met Bjorn from the Iceland Angling Club at the Veiðihús (fishing house) just down the road from where we are staying here in Hveragerði. Jase and I had drawn Area 3 on the to start fishing Varmá to begin our day fishing. However, we chose instead to fish the free area above the waterfall in town. In balance I think it was a good decision because, as we found later in the afternoon, areas 2 and 3 have been poorly affected by the recent heavy rain and the road works upstream.
The whole river top to bottom is filled with these little guys.
Nice little fish. But not the fish we came for.
Still fishless at 1pm, we reluctantly decided to hit the pool below the waterfall. Should have been easy pickings. Not so. These sea run trout are hard buggers to catch. But we did each pick up one.
Small, yes. But these sea run trout go hard. I think my one went as hard as some of the Salmon I hooked in the Laxá and Langá.
The rest of the afternoon we spent fishing up from the Hotel pool to the Golf course. Tomorrow we’ll go up further just to see what’s there.
Rich