I visited Deplar Farm in the north of Iceland to fish the Fljotaa River at the request of my friends at Eleven Experience, who have built a first rate lodge near its headwaters. The Fljotaa River is not far from the town of Siglufjordur in the north central part of Iceland. Up until the 1950’s the river flowed freely through the valley floor, but a hydroelectric dam was built, which provided an unnatural halt to the salmon migration.
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I awoke to the sound of the wind blowing outside my window. It was 0730 and the sky was grey and the rain was driving. This was not what I wanted to see for my first day of fishing on the Myvatnssveit section of the Laxa River. Then I recalled that I have no pull with the Big Man as to what fishing conditions that I get when I go out on the water.
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