A star pair in the Selá River in Vopnafjörður

Selá produced two remarkable salmon on the same day in Vopnafjörður, with a 105-centimeter female and a 102-centimeter male turning a Friday in the river into a landmark fishing day.

The larger fish was caught by Douglas, who was fishing with his wife, Kay, and their guide Mats in Efri Sundlaugarhyl, below the fishing lodge. The salmon took a Sunray Shadow and measured 105 centimeters, making it the largest fish of the summer in Selá and, according to the report, the biggest salmon for which there is information from northeast Iceland.

New anglers arrived in the afternoon, including Huginn Freyr Þorsteinsson and his son, Bolli Steinn Huginsson. Their guide, Sigþór Steinn Ólafsson, took them to Fjárhylur, a relatively small fishing spot below the pool known as Sundlaugarhyl. A fish jumped soon after they began casting.

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This was the fish. Sigþór just said ‘okay’ several times. Then he added: ‘We are giving everything to this.’ It was an incredible fish. We saw it so clearly when it jumped.

“This was the fish. Sigþór just said ‘okay’ several times. Then he added: ‘We are giving everything to this.’ It was an incredible fish. We saw it so clearly when it jumped,” Huginn told Sporðaköst.

The salmon repeatedly approached the fly before finally taking it on Huginn’s seventh or eighth cast. He said he immediately felt its size as it tried to pull him into the river. The fight centered on keeping the fish in the small pool and preventing it from reaching the rapids below. The male eventually measured 102 centimeters.

Huginn had caught salmon longer than 90 centimeters before, but said there was “an astronomical difference” between a 90-centimeter fish and an animal like this one. Together, the two catches formed what the report called a star pair in Vopnafjörður.

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There is an astronomical difference between a fish that is 90 centimeters and an animal like this.