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Day tours from Reykjavik

We specialize in first class tours for both individuals and small groups of anglers preferring personal service.
Experienced guides providing instructions on demand.
Tours Including:

Pick up/drop off from your location, fishing permits, fishing equipment as well as light refreshments.

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Fishing around Iceland

Iceland offers the traveler an adventure in a spectacular landscape of stunning natural beauty with almost endless oppertunitys for fishing.  

We arrange for permits concerning self guided fishing tours. Variety of fishing permits available in all price categories.

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Fishing in Iceland

Iceland is young geologically. At the close of the last ice age, the island was completely covered by a thick ice sheet, which depressed large areas of the land below sea level. When the ice and snow melted, freshwater species expanded northwards and settled in Iceland. This is the main reason why they are able to live in both sea and freshwater.

Only five wild freshwater species are found in the wild in Iceland.

ATLANTIC SALMON
Atlantic Salmon
(Salmo salar)

Brown trout
(Salmo trutta)
ARCTIC CHAR
Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
TIDDLER
Stickleback
(Gasterosteus aculetaus)
EEL
Eel
(Anquilla anquilla)

Fly fishing on rivers and lakes is a very popular sport in Iceland and anglers don’t need to go far from Reykjavik to find various salmon and trout rivers or excellent trout and arctic char lakes.

All parts of Iceland offer a large variety of rivers and lakes, whether in the lowlands or the expansive, uninhabited highlands. Wild brown trout and arctic char are the target species of game fishing in Icelandic lakes. The target species on rivers are atlantic salmon, brown trout, sea run brown trout, arctic char and sea run arctic char.

The fishing season in Iceland starts on April 1st on several sea trout & brown trout rivers as well as a few lakes. The main brown trout & arctic char fishing season starts on May 1st, except for the highland lakes, which open in mid June. The season for the lowland lakes ends in mid September, and the highland lakes’ season ends in late August.

The salmon season starts in June and extends into mid-September.
In a number of late-run rivers, fishing ends at the close of September, but few ocean ranching salmon rivers are open until October 31st.
The prime and highest-priced season is in general from mid-July until mid-August.

The prime sea trout season is September & October.

Preliminary 2009 salmon catch figures.

Useful information concerning fishing in Iceland

Visit Iceland - practical information

Photos showing many of the natural highlights
by the south shore

 

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gofishing@internet.is

tel: +354-551-2016 +354-866-9354


The Angling Club of Reykjavik

 Has a variety of fishing permits available.
In all price categories.
For many of the most prominent fishing spots in Iceland.

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Veiðikortið 2010

Fishing Card
Access to 31 lakes located all around Iceland

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