Just to let everyone know, I have just received confirmation from Charlie at Roxton’s that our forthcoming trip to Varzuga has been cancelled. For the first time in the 23 years I have been going to Varzuga, the river is still frozen half way through what should have been the first week running now and […]
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East Ranga, Iceland trip 2016
How would you describe what a perfect few fishing days should be like? Nice fishing conditions but challenging at times? The fishing not too easy and so all the more rewarding when success comes through putting in the effort and searching the water? The chance of not only a nice run of Grilse but some bigger fish too? Well East […]
Iceland East Ranga August 1st 2016
Nice fishing day, overcast and mild. We struggled on beat 2 with just 1 grilse for a lot of hard work, but we did see a good run of fish come past. They obviously stopped in beat 3 (ravens Rock) because Cecil D managed 5 and Eric W 2 With 4 fish from beat 3 […]
Iceland East Ranga 31st July 2016
Better fishing day today with broken cloud and not so much sun. We got 8 fish off beat 4 this morning with a red letter day for John M landing 4 of 6, 10, 12 & 14lbs and losing another. Over on beat 5, Eric W got 3 and Cecil D 1 fish. Not sure […]
Iceland East Ranga 30th July 2016
Blisteringly hot and sunny today without the wind that we had yesterday. Catches this morning correspondingly thin on the ground with only one fish reported from John R’s party lower down and nothing other than a couple of tales of woe from my team. Yesterday afternoon and evening session ended up with 2 more Grilse […]
ICELAND update 29th July 2016
East Ranga nice and clear but bright sun and strong winds not helping our cause. None the less the river is giving us some good sport with 5 fish for our first session last evening including a couple of 12 pounders and a magnificent 17 pounder for Eric W. This morning we have had 10 fish, 5 […]
ICELAND before we go
News just in from Charlie White, who returned from East Ranga this afternoon. His group had 125 Salmon for three days, which whilst (by East Ranga standards) not record breaking is still good fishing. The serious additional fact is that nearly all the fish they caught were between 10 and 20 lbs and they also caught a […]
Iceland 2015 report
Iceland has had the coldest winter for many years and certainly I have never seen the mountains and volcanoes covered in so much snow before. Good news for the glaciers which have recovered a lot of lost ice, but not such good news for East Ranga which has been running at barely 4 degrees for […]
Varzuga 23rd to 29th May 2015
Our team of 9 (sadly without John M) arrived at the Sabbachi camp after a trouble free journey to find the river just coming down to a perfect height – the Shark-fin stone on the Heli-Pool just under the surface – but a little warm for my liking at 9 degrees. Fish run through fast when the […]
Varzuga just before we go
Just come off the phone with Charlie who spoke to Christopher this morning. You can get the publicised blog on Roxtons site, but the inside line is 60 fish from Middle yesterday fishing only 7 Rods (?) and 34 fish from Lower fishing 9 Rods with a number more lost. The water is already several […]
