Iceland Adventure

[Marty.E.]

Hi folks, just back from a flying visit to Iceland with my wife a a few friends. Whilst there I managed to meet up with Steve Mason of Icelandic Fishing Adventures. As the holiday was mainly a family affair I was restricted to a few hours on Sunday morning. We were there from Thursday lunch time till Sunday 2pm. The sun shone brightly for the firdt three days and then the snow returned for my fishing trip. Steve picked me up at 7am and headed off to one of his favourite marks. Arrived and set up tackle, pulley rig with 5/0 pennel. Bait was a combination of nice big lugworm, big mussel and the favourite of the longlining fleet , bluey. It didn't take long to get started with this haddock of about 1.5 lb.

Steve with a similar size haddock

Me into my first wolffish ( we call them catfish over here ) weighind 6 lb 8 ozs

First wolffish at 6 lb 8 ozs

Smiling for the camera

A nice dab that tipped the scales at 1 lb 3 ozs

My second wolffish ( a doubler ) weighing 10 lb 8 ozs

A nice set of teeth

My one and only codling

Steve with a double shot of haddock

My third and biggest wolffish weighing 12 lb 13 ozs, I also had a dab of 1 lb on the top hook of the pennel at the same time

This one weighed 12 lb 13 ozs

Me pleased as punch

Last wolffish weighing 4 lb 6 ozs

Last haddock before calling time due to impending flight home

All these fish were caught in a two and a half hour session on the baits mentioned above. I would of loved to stay longer but had a plane to catch. Steve provided the rod and baits and I took along my trusty slosh 30. If anyone is interested in giving it a go you can contact Steve on the link below.
Cheers
Marty
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[Marty.E.]

Oops forgot say that all of the fish were returned and swam off even the wolffish with all the blood leaking out of their mouths.
Cheers
Marty

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

An excellent report and fantastic pics Marty ,it does look great over there and I've given thought to having a look over myself in the past and spoke to Peter Thain about it.

 

[willywetegg]

Cheers for that Marty, some great pictures there mate. Those Wolffish are cute things, sort of reminds you of Alien lol.

Jim.

 

[steve ifa]

icelandic adventure

icelandic adventure

Cheers marty good report nice to see you could post the pics it was nice to fish with you hope we can do it again

CHEERS

Steve mason

 

[jordy]

That looks amazing,would love to go and have a bash over there myself.

 

[seanyrooroo]

Fantastic report Marty, shame you couldn't have had a longer session. Excellent photos too!

 

[tonynufc]

cracking fish and pics mate well done

 

[KeithB]

Fantastic report Marty, looks great over there.

Welcome to NESA Steve!

 

[STEVO]

Crackin report mate not bad for 2 hours fishin eh and another doubler thats every year for the last three now
Dya wreckon we can get davey to change the annual trip from borough head

 

[J.J.]

brilliant report marty good couple of hours fishing and some nice wolfys

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Excellent

Do the Wolf Fish fight like crazy?

 

[johnf]

Excellent session Marty. That's getting on for 40lb of fish in 2 hrs. Just been watching Henry Gilbey catch an 8lb cod on a spinner from the shore in Norway and "housewifes favourite" John Wilson haul up 40lb cod & coalfish from a Norwegian Fjord. Makes you realise how f*cked up our fisheries are. Chances are in the not too distant future we'll all have to get on a plane or ferry to go sea fishing.

 

[eddie t]

Excellent report and pics marty.

 

[milton]

nice 1

nice 1

hiya mate nice catch a mint pics i wish i could get a catch like that 1 day

 

[Marty.E.]

Steve thanks again for the experience, it rounded off a fantastic time in Iceland.

Wallsendo the wolffish took there time in taking the bait but they did give a decent account of themselves when winding in. We were fishing in about 100 foot of water. The only tackle I lost was the hooks that were cut off close to the mouths of the wolfy's when releasing them.
Cheers
Marty

 

[sless]

very nice

whats that white stuff on the photos
hehehe

nice pics mate

 

[YoursTruly]

Marty, would it be fair to say you had a good time.

Looking forward to my little trip out there in June.

 

[alan]

Excellent report Marty,Cheers

 

[tommy_leeuk]

grats on the catches m8

them wolfish are real ugly buggers, hope you enjoyed ya hols.