much respect, i started fly fishing when i was 8. started to tye my own flys at the same age too using my dogs hair for the flys.. heh, bluegill were perfect to learn to fly fish on.. once you learn to fly fish you are hooked for life.. i lve big fish on light fly gear. thanks for sharing your part of the world.. i grew up in the northwest of usa.. in oregon.. off the nehaliam/rock creek river. im in arizona now.. and fishing in the desert just does not work.. so my fly rod has been retired for 10 years now.. maybe one day ill get to get her wet again. rock on.

@knrst9061

2 жыл бұрын

Get her wet, bud!

2lb line? why not use 6lb fluorocarbon, its just as thin but 3x as strong? dumbass

@mungo911

10 жыл бұрын

Agree...9 wt. rod with 2 lb. tippet is just dumb.

Ah that beautiful sound of the reel when big fish is pulling out all of your fly line.Priceless.

Extremely beautiful fish. Well done Gummy Bear!

Excellent film. Beautiful and mystical country.

Gummi is a great guy and a great guide.

nice fishes,nice lake,nice country ! thank you ! from France

Great video and beautiful Iceland I have been two times for fishing at Laxa river and on the north eastern area for trouts around Husavik and nearby. Hope to travel there the soonest. Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏👏🏻👏🏻👋👋👋

those brown trout are the best looking I have ever seen, thanks

That trout at the end was unbelievably beautiful. Big & silver and good fighter, you did a nice jobs. Thanks for having ur video. B.C. Canada.

This is a great video showing the importance of catch and release.

wow that is what you call fishing thank you for video

Maybe I should make this one of my bucket list to check out, awesome size brown and full of vibrant colors, look healthy.

my favorite place in the world for Atlantic Salmon fishing....

Iceland really does produce the goods!

Amazing, after a few Iceland documentaries including Brown Trout farms replenishing fish stocks every year, I was merely searching for what Brown Trout look like and and their size and found this video...fantastic.

Very professional video- thanks

Can't wait for July with you

"One misstep could flay him to the bone..." More like, it could rip his waders and hurt like hell, but that wouldn't be as dramatic, would it?

Guðmundur Atli this is so cool. Well done.

@simplehumblelifephilippine429

8 жыл бұрын

Gunnar hvar er þetta þingvillumvatn sem Guðmundur var að veiða urriða?mig langar profa það 😊

Thank you very much . Mar. 20th 2022 Sun. 09:37 am from Yokohama City Japan

I watch a lot of fishing vids and agree about release on most occasions but what I don’t see is real honest fisherman who keep the occasional fish yet it happens in the real world all the time. Are the majority just trying to produce videos with a theme of look how good I am ? Man is a hunter!

go to 9.47 see the tippet against his black jersey as the fish is being held, never 2lb might be 2kg looks thicker though . Very good film excellant pic quality fantastic fish. well done

I so much want to visit Iceland!

Great vid, cheers

dude's good, saw him cast with both hands at different times.. nice skill

Fantastic video!!

Fantastic fish

the commentary was pretty sweet

Really good video.

Great Stuff.

Awesome!

2lb tippet is a great idea for monster trout lol.

@pwned555

9 жыл бұрын

They probably spook very easily and if you use heavier they wouldn't take your fly... I'd rather have a fish on and break off than never catch a fish.

@billyc2572

6 жыл бұрын

jtoddjb I know right bud? Guess some ppl feel like over tiring and over fighting a fish is warranted by having a more subtle presentation. Smh. It's stupid and unsportsmanlike

@boblove6865

4 жыл бұрын

@@pwned555 lmao those fish do not get that big being picky eaters. That lake has virtually zero pressure. Many of them fish have never seen a fly. You could easily bump up to 6 pound floro. I'd probably start with 8.

awesomeeeee!!!!

I hate it when anyone loses a fight with a potentially big fish! I know the feeling. Better luck next time. :)

Looks nice! The lake trout around 100 mile house British Columbia is about the same size. You don't need to sneak past a gate! I fished there most of my life. Easy access.

@Charactermatters650

Жыл бұрын

And cost a fortune to fish as well and then pay for guide - I’ll take Canada any day Kind of like Ireland as well, most waters are private - Canada and America have done well to give access to the common man.

simply excellent.

HI Good Fishing man.

The warmer the water, the faster the fish grow. As they digest the food faster, they eat more than cold water fish. A study showed that a Great Lakes Largemouth takes about 4 years to reach 9". In Florida, they take only 9 months!

nuestro planeta tiene lugares muy hermoso es el paraiso

Fantastic! great. I subscribed. Greetings from New York.

Crazy cool

awesome!!!

I caught a 22lb brown trout Ina great Lakes tributary from Lake ontario in western new York. I centerpin fish for steelhead and brown trout here

I was only catching the small fish in the lake. :-) They can be over 3 times bigger.

amazing......

The video mentions 2 pound tippet on a 9 weight fly rod. Does anyone else find this a bit iffy? Gudmundur, you deserve all respect and thanks. The narrator needs to keep in mind that knowledgeable fishermen are going to be most interested in this video ; so they need to keep their remarks realistic. Love to come fish for anadromous char and salmon with you!

@ptuffgong8504

7 жыл бұрын

Natural Ponds Lakes & Streams by Spring Creek Aquatic Concepts I agree. Maybe he meant 2X? 2kg? I have trouble landing 3-4 pound trout on 2lb (7X). He had to be mistaken.

@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists

7 жыл бұрын

Ptuffgong, my money is on your conclusion. Nice job!

Congrats 2 nice fish and video! Can you give me advice where to ask for fishing there in holidays??

They mention he was using light tippet... No way was he using anything under 3x

Well, I know which guide I would choose when visiting Iceland.

Never lower your standards for golf .

Reel looks like a sage

is my dream!

@surethingsfly

10 жыл бұрын

Awesome place!

@TheOrmsson

10 жыл бұрын

you can go there, costs about 80 dollars if you buy a special were you can fish in 36 lakes in iceland

@TheOrmsson

10 жыл бұрын

TheOrmsson special card

@icesar8211

9 жыл бұрын

we icelanders hope you like it 😄

its wrong in the film. if I remember right its 2.5 kg maxima tippet I also used 5.5 kg

@Imxaxmac

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clarifying Gus you are a great angler and can cast a fly rod very well much appreciation for your angling and the fish you have caught

@Guide504

4 жыл бұрын

I love the yanks doing Iceland with all the deep and meaning full VO... Sounds like hollywood! The Icelanders however are so cool and understated with great humour.

Quite a lake...

who cares whether there browntrout or seatrout they're fantastic trout and i'm envious. You always get the begrudgers making smart comments. Great video, well done. i just subscribed.

@EclipseStar

8 жыл бұрын

+Vincent Donnelly Aren't they the same species? And seatrout is just searun brown trout, like steelhead/rainbows?

@johanlarsson7592

8 жыл бұрын

All trout are the same species, their colour and size depends on where they live,rainbows are another case, they are a product of man ..

@h9mpus

8 жыл бұрын

No, Johan they're not. But I can understand why you'd think so since you're swedish (so am I), but the fact is rainbow trout could actually spawn in some of our rivers not so long ago. Nowadays though, the pH of our waters is waayy to low.

@johanlarsson7592

8 жыл бұрын

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@davidbeckenbaugh9598

7 жыл бұрын

Wow! Come to America's west coast and see some NATIVE rainbow/steelhead. All rainbow NOT on America's west coast are transplanted. But, if you think they are somehow genetically altered by man.. .well, then the west coast native Americans (indians) had some awesome genetic facilities 3,000 years ago. And we have quite a few species out here. Native species include rainbow, cutthroat, and golden trout. Tough not technically trout, we also have some different species of char, including arctic char and dolly varden char. Good luck with your belief that no trout are anything but man-made....

That's some amazing fishing ! - when is the next flight to Iceland ?

As everywhere in the world - best places are PROHIBITED & PRIVATE.....

Great stuff. Let’s fish Heidarvatn one day, ok?

ahahaha gúmmí haha þetta er svo fyndið!!

great video Gummi . what strength tippet do you use for streamers? and hope you don't mind me asking , but what materials do you use for the body on the rainbow ghost as I really like the look of that flyRegardsRaymond

Nice.. I cought a Trout were u got ur last one in the video, My was 6-7kg, Really nice in Iceland. that was the only fish a cought in 6 days.. but it was worth it.. =)

Compared to rainbows Browns are like catching logs. Very little fight. I've only had a very few Browns jump or make more than 2-3 good runs. Some rainbow strains are awesome. Pound for pound the best fresh water fighters.

@AngryGaper

7 жыл бұрын

I'd have to say from my experience that an Atlantic salmon will outfight a rainbow pound per pound.

@bigpapi3636

7 жыл бұрын

AngryGaper I've never had the opportunity but if they fight harder than the Kamloops rainbows I fish for in Utah I'm all in. Thanks

We get 20lb trout in Wales occasionally too.

@PYakMan1

9 жыл бұрын

Been watching the Wicked Tuna series. WOW! 1,100 lb Tuna beasts, me catching my little bass etc and being excited seems puny. Though in my life it seems any decent fish on sporting gear is a blast.

@kevinchamberlain7928

9 жыл бұрын

PYakMan1 Those bluefin tuna were regular in the Irish sea and still show up occasionally! I'm gonna hit the sea bass on the fly in the next few days. Never caught one with a fly but have with jelly shads and peeler crab etc.

@PYakMan1

9 жыл бұрын

Kevin Chamberlain I've caught some nice Bass on Jelly lures and love it when a 3lber grabbed it, with my carp rod and litttle baitrunner reel was a great fun fight, even felt had to let him go, he did look delicious, but felt it disrespectful at that moment, as he gave me so much fun. Will get me his father/mother soon ;-) 10lb Bass, plus surf, and carp rod with 10lb line will be helluva fight.

@kevinchamberlain7928

9 жыл бұрын

PYakMan1 My kinda fishing! Never caught any double figure bass but hopefully will soon. I've had quite a few perch and they eat exactly like sea bass. They are the same anatomically.

@billyc2572

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah those stupid overly fat, farmed and pellet fed abominations

that's what he gets using 7x tippet. at least that's what the narrator states he is using. "a 9 weight with 2lb tippet."

big fisssssss

im try many times on that laks the biggest trut that i cach was b 5 and 8 the have som monster but you need fishing at night

All that talk of a 20 pound monster and we are treated to an 8 pound guppie at the end

I want to live there.

The dramatic music in this video is too much.

What time did he catch that last fish at? Probably 2:30am

i was just wondering what reel were you using?

Good video but very misleading caption, a more accurate one would be "No monster trout were caught during the making of this video" and 2lb tippet is just daft.

So what the weight of your leader?? 5-7 weight 1X .010 inches 7.2 pounds size-4 to size-8

Be careful with the light leaders....you are the only one fishing in a private lake! Hmmm

First discovered by monks in the dark ages, then norsemen..... LoL

Look at the sky at 3.47 - there are several meteorites burning up in the sky.

Torstensvik in Thingvellir is a prohibited place for fishing,.

Those first few Trouts were not really Brown Trouts though, its Sea Trouts. Same fish yea but the non-stationary sea migrating Brown Trout is called a Sea Trout... hence the silver color and they grow larger... Thingvellir is connected to the sea through river from where the trout migrate to/from sea...

@jhelm49

9 жыл бұрын

Óttar Finnsson google maps tells otherwise :p

@xxwhatevahxx

9 жыл бұрын

Óttar Finnsson You are right, but in some cases the migration doesnt need to happen to form a brown trout into a sea trout looking trout because if Sea water is (or has been) connected to a vast & deep lake that simulates many of the sea inlet/bay life & biotopics and can therefore transform many brown trout in the lake to look/be/grow like sea trout... Brown Trout who are stationary in only lakes grow already very huge & change their looks somewhat (compared to them being stationary in rivers/streams/creeks), you add a bit of sea water/biotopics and voila it can create some hybrid sea/brown trout patterns... Whatever the case may be, trout is a trout & grows/looks like based on what/where it is living & eating and this is FANTASTIC TROUT WATER! Þingvallavatn is amazing.

@Frosk-vz9pz

6 жыл бұрын

Browns in the mountains are silver colored aswell. Doesnt need to be sea trout trout becouse it's silver. It's the conditions that matter.

Fighting a fish to its exhausted absolute death

Flott taka

Do you know who any company or specific guide who could take me out to fish Thingvallavatn for a couple days for a cheaper price as I’ve looked around but they all seem to be over 200,000 Icelandic krona

it was made for USA TV.

Glæsimynd! Hvada linu/stangarvikt notardu? Gefur manni enga sma H E I M T H R A!! :) Takk fyrir ad deila thessu gaurinn, kvedjur fra Noregi

iff you used a boat and downrigger with a large savage gear rubber trout you could well be into a 40 pounder plus . there,s too many elitest fly fishermen in the world , i,d love to go there and troll the hell out the place yee haar

brutal pronunciation of reykjavik

@robmusser1144

8 жыл бұрын

+Kiel Jones sounds like rake-a-vick right?

M.

þetta er svo fucking flott myndband sæll plíss gerðu fleiri svona ;) awesome

who are the 38 people who have disliked this video . ive been to Iceland . its an amazing country . i will fish Laxamyri this summer. idiots who disliked

@spiritualmeditationmusic2177

8 жыл бұрын

what you will find with youtube is that as soon as say, 10,000 or more have viewed something there are nearly always some dislikes. You could have the best video ever made and it will have dislikes. Maybe in this case its people who disagree with fishing and dont give it long enough to see that the fish are released back without harm. we live in an ignorant world. best concentrate on the positives rather than the people who dislike videos!!

"one slip can fillet him to the bone". This music and commentary is so over dramatic

Geggjað Nafni

@GummiFalk

10 жыл бұрын

Gummi flottur ;)

Narrators voice pisses me off

He does everything wrong. Why go fishing for monster trout with 2 lb tippet. Why are you struggling through razor sharp larva rocks with a fish on, you can't control that take. No wonder you lost it. The whole thing from the start is hyped up and not the norm for an enjoyably fishing video. Monster Trout click bait.