We had a pretty frozen start to the season of 2010. Early March was very promising, it really looked as if spring had come early, but no, we seem to to need remembering that we live in Iceland and not someplace far further south!

So, as April 1rst arrived we had seen several days of intense freezing. Rivers and lakes that had shed their ice, where again under an ice sheet, making fishing very testing indeed. Finish anglers fishing Tungulaekur landed 15 sea trout but only after the high noon sun had upped the tempertures considerably. On Minnivallalaekur, things where also difficult, although the group that opened the river landed eleven browns, among them two specimens of 70 centimeters each, 7 to 9 pounders, according to their condition. On the morning of day one, the temperture said 11 below zero celcius plus the wind factor, pulling it all up to 20plus below zero.

So, as it was, the weather was nice, only to cold to fish so our guests hired aircrafts to view the volcanic eruption on Fimmvörðuháls, which is close to our rivers. It is a real tourist‘s favorite, a complex of gushing craters and awesome lava falls in a LordoftheRings like landscape.

The cold snap is expectred to end next week and it  is not to late to book a trip to Iceland and even to see the volcano on the way to our rivers!