When it comes to determining where trout choose to lie Iceland’s smaller streams are pretty much like ours. Occasionally though you come across a fish holed up in a daft corner somewhere. The arrow (right) points to where one particular fish had taken up residence. With the flow coming from upstream (top of picture), currents passed to the right on this huge boulder with a percentage of water being recycled round its left side to create a back eddy that in turn, filtered all manner of flies into the narrow channel. A little bit of trickery topped off with a slice of good fortune and he was mine. Though he did wrap my round the stonework that initially caused me to dance about as I tried to free my leader…
Up close, you can clearly see that distinctive profile of a solid looking fish
…A size 14 elk hair caddis proved his undoing…
