It has rained so heavily, with sustained strong winds, that any fisher would have been forgiven for not venturing outside. Luckily no forgiveness was required as our intrepid fishers put (large) fly to water and landed over 600 salmon for the week.

This week we lost a couple of days’ fishing to impressive storms and rising coloured water. So to end the week with 680+ salmon landed to 12-17 rods was a great result.

July 26 saw records fall on East Ranga. The guides had whispered that if conditions were kind we could see a record daily catch. It happened. 223 Atlantic salmon landed in a single day

Thursday and Friday last week were all but written off due to huge rain, but Saturday saw the sun return and the fishing go utterly crazy.

The truth is we just don’t know why so many fish are running at this time. To land 900 Atlantic salmon is a week is not normal

This has been a staggering weeks’ fishing. Great conditions and very strong runs of fresh fish resulted in 503 salmon being landed

Please forgive so many updates in a short period of time, but we are getting excited.

The early season continues to get more exciting day by day. Reports are of lots of fresh fish running into the lower beats

The final days of June have been very encouraging with clearly good numbers of salmon

The opening days of the season were among the best for many years

At the time of writing we have some fantastic availability for fishers looking to catch some salmon this summer.

Iceland has been open and welcoming tourists from 15 June. There are of course some regulations

Despite heavy rain and gusty conditions, the East Ranga 2020 season started with a bang!

East Ranga Sporting ehf is delighted to announce that a new long term river lease has been agreed with the East Ranga River Owners Association.

In the back of your mind you are always aware that a volcano may erupt, or a earthquake shudder the ground, but this is something completely unexpected and more insidious.

Total Salmon Landed: 3048 Largest Fish: 25lbs x 2 (early July, released for the hatchery).

If there is are two recurring complain about the guestrooms, they would be about some f the beds not being big or comfortable enough, and that there is no sound insulation between the rooms.

What a winter! Relentless snow and high winds battered Iceland for many months, causing risk to humans and livestock and damage to buildings.

For the first time the 2020 fishing rotation will be standardized for all 18 rods, ensuring fair rotation for all fishers through the nine upper, middle and lower river beats.

We were delighted in the summer of 2019 to complete the purchase of the Aurora Lodge Hotel from our friends Arni and Vala at Lax-a.