The salmon fishing season officially started this morning on the Norðurá river in Borgarfjörður and Blanda in Húnaþing, but the first catch is yet to be made. The Reykjavík Angling Association was keenly out fishing for salmon on the river, but came back empty handed.

Guðmundur Stefán Maríasson, president of the association, has spotted at least one fish however. The water level has reached a historical low, and has never been so low at the beginning of the fishing season before.

Guðmundur and his friends cast the line out over Brotið, according to tradition, but didn’t spend very long there before moving onto another fishing spot. According to a news reporter for Morgunblaðið, the water level is currently very low in Norðurá, more like it would be at the height of summer. Anglers at the Reykjavík Angling Association say they have never seen the water level so low at this time of year before.

Update: The situation is obviously very dynamic! Just minutes after this post was published, a report reached Morgunblaðið saying that the first salmon has been caught. Bjarni Júlíusson was the lucky angler, landing an 80cm fish.

Source: mbl.is
Image: offiof

Labels: Fishing, Nature