Return to the Salmon Waters of Iceland

by | Aug 17, 2016 | saltwater fly fishing in Iceland

blog-Aug-17-2016-1-jeff-currier-salmon-fishing-in-icelandAfter hours of delays leaving the USA yesterday Granny and I arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland this morning.  We’re here to Atlantic salmon fish with our friends of Icelandic Fly Fishermen.  You may remember I fished here in 2014 with my friend Ingo Helgason.  It was an epic trip where I caught one of the most memorable fish of my life.

 

blog-Aug-17-2016-2-reykjavic-harbor-icelandThis is Granny’s first trip to Iceland.  She does few cold water fishery trips because her job rarely allows her to leave during summer.  But this is Iceland and on this trip my friends invited her too – there was no way she was missing this.  Furthermore, last summer she went to Labrador and did extremely well swinging flies for landlocked salmon.  Atlantic salmon fishing just might be one of her sneaky forte’s!

 

blog-Aug-17-2016-3-iceland-fishnchipsAfter a scrumptious fish and chips lunch with Ingo and our other friend Siggy who is a guide and partner in Icelandic Fly Fishermen, Granny and I checked into a room in Reykjavik for the night and hit the town.  As you know from reading this blog, life of Currier leaves no time for jetlag!

 

blog-Aug-17-2016-4-granny-currier-in-IcelandThe weather today in Reykjavik was cool and drizzly with some scattered rains.  I showed Granny around the city and each time the rain got hard we ducked into a pub.  After a few tasty drafts Granny returned to the room.  I decided to get in a little saltwater fly fishing on the public docks.

 

 

 

blog-Aug-17-2016-5-flyfishing-for-pollackI rigged my 8-weight Jungle rod and my 300 grain and headed for the docks to loosen the shoulder.  For kicks I put on a traditional Atlantic salmon tube fly Ingo gave me last trip.  I hooked several fish and landed my first ever pollock (ufsi in Icelandic) on the fly.  As a kid growing up near Plum Island in Massachusetts I caught hundreds of BIG pollock off the beach on Hopkins Lures.  Those mighty schools of the 1960’s I’m sad to say are gone.

 

blog-Aug-17-2016-6-reykjavik-icelandGranny and I hit the town for a few hours again tonight and ended with some filling Thai food.  I speak for the both of us – we are flat out exhausted.  I just read over this blog and can’t remember writing the last paragraph.  That’s what 20,000 miles of travel in fifteen days will do to you.

 

We’ll drive north and east tomorrow with Ingo and Siggy to begin our salmon fishing escapade.

 

Jeff Currier Global Fly Fishing

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I started fly fishing at age 7 in the lakes and ponds of New England cutting my teeth on various sunfish, bass, crappie and stocked trout. I went to Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where I graduated with a Naturalist Degree while I discovered new fishing opportunities for pike, muskellunge, walleyes and various salmonids found in Lake Superior and its tributaries.

From there I headed west to work a few years in the Yellowstone region to simply work as much as most people fish and fish as much as most people work. I did just that, only it lasted over 20 years working at the Jack Dennis Fly Shop in Jackson, WY where I departed in 2009. Now it’s time to work for "The Man", working for myself that is.

I pursue my love to paint fish, lecture on every aspect of fly fishing you can imagine and host a few trips to some of the most exotic places you can think of. My ultimate goal is to catch as many species of fish on fly possible from freshwater to saltwater, throughout the world. I presently have taken over 440 species from over 60 countries!

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