Veiðimaðurinn - 01.12.1943, Side 29

AN ANGLER’S DREAM FULLFILLED
Eftirjarandi grein birtist í brezka veiSitímaritinu The Field og þykir
rétt aS birta hana eins og hún þar er framsett en ekk‘ « þýSingu, sem
tœplega myndi ná hinni nœmu tilfinningu og ánœgju veiðimannsins, sem
greinarhöfundur lýsir svo vel. PaS er mikils virSi fyrir islenzkar laxveiSiár
aS hljóta sl'tk ummœli í jafn víSlesnu blaSi og The Field.
The ,.Dream“ river rises in the hills
try“ in The Field of July 3rd has im-
pelled me to write of a river „Some-
where in Iceland“ which might almost
be called the „Dream’s Fulfilment11, so
near does it come to all that one wishes
for.
Early in 1937 a kind friend, R., wrote
to tell me he had taken a river in Ice-
land wich, owing to the fact that, until
quite recently, there had been no road
to it, had never been regularly fished.
„Would I care to take a chance and
come with him?“ There was no hesi-
tation in my reply, and so towards end
of June we duly set out. R. had the
river for June and July, whilst a íriend
inu er þá soglegu sögu að segja, að
gersamlega hefur reynzt ókleyft að fá
upplýsingar um það, hve mikið hefur
úr þeim veiðst. Er hér átt við Sogið.
Stóru-Laxá og Brúará.
Veiðimaðurinn vill leyfa sér að
benda hlutaðeigendum þar á, að við
svo búið má ekki lengur una, og
verður að krefjast þess hiklaust af
hverjum veiðimanni að hann hlýðnist
fyrirmælum laga um það, að skrásetja
og telja fram veiði sína. Er þetta vin-
samleg áminning bæði til þeirra, sem
laganna eiga að gæta, svo og hinna, sem
ekki hafa hlíðnast fyrirmælum lag-
anna. Ritstj.
of his had taken it over for August
and Seþtember. Soon after we started
the wireless gave out „Gale warning
north of the line, etc.,“ wich for us,
busily heading for it, was certainly a
necessary one. Consequently, we were
late in arriving at Reykjavik, not bert-
hing till 12 p.m. on a Saturday night.
However, the Icelandic officials were
most helpful in getting our stores,
through the Customs, and we were able
to catch the small boat to Borgarness
at 6 a.m., otherwise a day would have
been wasted, as these boats do not run
daily. From Borgarness the journey
was continued by bus, quite comfor-
table, except that the road, which is
only gravel and earth, was very bumpy
in places, and this did not agree with
some of our fellowtravellers. The farm
in which we lodged is close to the river
and situated about the centre of the
fishing, so that with a car the different
beats are easily reached. The first year
a somewhat ramshackle car was hired,
but afterwards R. brought his own car
out, and both the journey and the fis-
hing were much easier. The house, too,
was grealty improved by the addition
of a bathroom.
The charming article by „West Coun-
some ten miles to the south of the
farm, but soon comes to a big fosse,
impassable for salmon; thence it runs
with an average width of about 30
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