Here are some pics of fish we caught in Iceland in June - all beautiful but very variable

This is a typical fish from a shallow lake where Browns are the most abundant species all are finely spotted and a lovely yellow colour - some more yellow than this


This fish and the next one are both from a deep water lake where Char are predominant. This next fish is typical for this lake very silvery - almost like a seatrout.

This is an average sized Char - we caught them upto 4lbs plus - they too vary in colour quite a bit - usually in depth of the orange under belly.



All in all lovely wild fish - caught when we went on our annual trip with my Icelandic friend Skuli Kristinsson

Steve Cooper aka Cookshill

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The second picture / brown looks superb ! Well done. SF

I agree, the second brown trout is fantastic. Must have been a good trip.

Tups,
if you want to fish for Artic Char, St. Mary's Loch in the Scottish Borders has some because of it's depth.

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Roddy

"Sod it! I am going out to sink a klink!"

is trout fishing very expensive over there? I ask because the salmon fishing seems to be truly extortionate! Maybe the trout fishing is more accessable? Those trout are stunning.

Proper tails on those beasts.

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Cromie

Nice pics. Considering Iceland for my 40th....I hear it costs an arm and a leg for food and booze?

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Stuuning looking fish.
Are the tactics the same as you would emply over here?

Tupps,

There are charr in Llanberis North Wales; maybe a bit nearer for you?

Much prettier than the Icelandic pic - sorry Cookshill, the wild brown pics were quite superb.
The Welsh call them 'torgoch'; this means 'red-belly', quite apt when you see one. Every fin tipped in black, white, and red.
Easy to catch in August. Set out for the lake middle, must be crack of dawn: Paternostered maggots dangled over the edge of a dinghy, depth set at between 10 - 11 metres.

Not fly-fishing I know; but the forum has expanded recently. Perhaps this is: Welsh tradition more than Classic coarse .



PiB

Go stand in the corner PiB! Maggots indeed!

The Artic Char in St. Mary's can be caught on a DI7 or HiDi with normal wet flies, one of the Selkirk AA members used to fish for them and they have popped up in competitions before.

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Roddy

"Sod it! I am going out to sink a klink!"