Published Sep 1. 2015 - 8 years ago

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Iceland, 5½ days

Iceland is best known for its salmon fishing, but the island has some of the world's best brown trout fishing too... and arctic char... and sea trout. So GFF partner Martin Joergensen and his friend Asger Olesen had 5½ great days of fishing the summer of 2003.

Read their story here with pictures, patterns and a slide show

An odd salmon fly favoured in Iceland.

Pattern type: 
Modern salmon fly
Skill level/difficulty: 
Easy
Instruction: 
Species: 
atlantic salmon (sea run)
Materials: 
Tube
1 inch copper tube
Thread
Black
Rib
Oval silver tinsel
Tail/antennae
4-6 brown hackle stems
Tail
A small bunch of chocolate brown arctic fox
Body
Black wool
Central hackle
Brown rooster
Head
Yellow varnish

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