Lake Thingvallavatn 12. June 2022

Me and my wife had been working hard in our garden the whole weekend but after midday, on Sunday we grabbed our fishing equipment and threw it into the back of our car. Then we drove to lake Thingvallavatn. We parked the car east of mountain Arnarfell and walked north to the end of the mountain and down to the lake to a spot called Olafsdrattur. I have three times fished there and have not been especially successful. My wife found the spot very beautiful and it didn´t hurt that we had it all to ourselves. There was a light breeze that blew from the west. The temperature was 16 - 18 degrees when the fishing started but had dropped to eight degrees when we stopped fishing around ten o'clock.

I started casting north of the fishing area.The Pheasant tail fly was the first to be chosen. Right from the first cast, a 2.6-pound trout takes my fly and shortly afterward a 1.2-pound trout takes the spinner from my wife. Then I decided to wade along the north side of mountain Arnarfell and finally a wading stick I won in a lottery thirty years ago turned out to be useful. The stick had been lying unused since then but now I decided it was time to use it. Lake Thingvallavatn can be tough to wade because of how rough the bottom is. In the summer of 2020, I caught a beautiful charr in the bay east of a place called Búr (cage). This time I caught nothing there but a little to the east one charr took the fly but it escaped. A little later another one took the fly Frisco and that one did not escape. She was 1,5 pounds.