Has One of the World’s Best Brown Trout Fisheries Been Hiding in Plain Sight?

A surprising brown trout from Iceland’s Blanda River. Photograph: Earl Harper through Hatch Journal

It appears exceptional that, on this age of nonstop Web fly-fishing protection, there could be a world-class fishery that remained below the radar. However it appears that evidently most folk haven’t heard of a specific gem within the northwestern highlands of Iceland. Writing in Hatch Journal, Chad Schmukler writes about a new fishing operation on Iceland’s Blanda River system, which is residence to brown trout (sea-run and resident), Arctic char (sea-run and resident), and Atlantic salmon:

How nice is the true potential of this lengthy ignored trout fishery? A lot of that’s nonetheless unknown. The approaching seasons could have a lot to disclose, as visiting anglers ply the waters of the Blanda, the Svartá, and different small tributaries within the system each on foot and from rafts (a primary in Iceland for trout anglers), casting dry flies, dry-dropper rigs, nymphs and streamers into riffles, runs, swimming pools and pockets the place, in lots of circumstances, nobody ever bothered to search for trout earlier than.

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