The Jökla system finished with 184 salmon in 2009 and has been up and coming gradually as we learn more about it. Our first experimental smolt release produced a catch of 120 salmon in 2007. Jökla is still in the pioneering phase as our clients are at times fishing pools that have no names yet and runs that have never before held salmon.

Jökla itself is a former huge muddy glacial river that has been dammed in the interior. A huge lagoon cleans up a lot of the silt and the essence of the Jökla has been transferred underground to the next valley by the company operating the hydro electric dam. We have been building up what’s left of Jökla as a salmon river. Most of the summer the river is clear and beautiful, full of likely and lovely pools. By releasing smolts we have implanted a run of salmon into the river and it’s important tributaries, Laxá, Fossá and Kaldá, all of which did have natural salmon runs but have now been injected with more salmon. Also we have Fögruhlíðará, a river close by which flows separately into the Atlantic just north of Jökla’s estuary. Fögruhlíðará is best known for its outstanding sea char fishing although it has a small run of Atlantic salmon as well. We are also working on enhancement in Fögruhlíðará.

We have a burgeoning fishery on the lower Jökla now, involving the lower part of the river, plus the tributaries and Fögruhlíðará. It is a four to eight rod unit with a lot of room and variety on each and every beat. Guests stay at one of the new lodges in Iceland, a four star fishing lodge nearly completely on par with our lodge at Breiðdalsá. After August the twentieth gees shooting may be included in the Jökla package and we have some very good shooting fields available close by.