the best underwater footage of salmon fishing i've ever seen.

Now this is what I have been looking for on the web for the longest time. This is the best footage on the web I have ever seen!

Okay, a new additional bucket list item! Salmon fishing in Iceland! Yes! Just a thought, maybe weigh down the fly more. Here in the U.S., we wrap the shank of the hook with lead to weigh it down to get deeper into the zone. BTW, dragging it onto shore is perfectly fine. 😊😊😊😊

I wish there were more videos like this. Educational and exciting!

What beautiful underwater filming, I could watch this all day! Most educational too learning how and where they hold and how they react to our flies. Such clear water too. How spectacular that you get to enjoy that!! and we do too vicariously. Do you have more videos?

This is the Atlantic salmon or Salmo Salar in Latin. This is the only salmon species we have here in Iceland. Only one river in Iceland stocks steelhead and this is not the one. The Atlantic salmon always puts up a great fight no matter how small it is. This summer I hooked a fish well over 10 kilos but after five minutes he sent the fly back to me with the hooks all bent up.

Fabulous film love the underwater camera brilliant 🙏

Sweet fishing! Nice fish and great underwater footage! Tumbs up!

Great fishing clip! To all the people who complained about the salmon being beached, get over it! The salmon will be fine. They bang and crash against stones and rocks as they swim up the river. The most important thing is to get the hook out and get them back in the water quickly... which he did. Nice underwater shots. Good on you!

Gosh thats so clear water! Amazing video!

Sweet fishing! Nice fish and great underwater footage! well DONE 10+++++++

Great underwater shots, really interesting, thank you.

Yeap, I´ve learnt a lot these past years in this one of those. Didn´t loose one salmon last summer but cought around 50. Thanks.

Absolutely amazing footage ,just shows how the fish react when one of the group of fish is hooked and the others dont even look as though anything different is happening Question though how did you guys know the fish were there ,did you search the water first with the camera?? thank you for a brilliant peace of work

Great filming underwater! Really cool! As far as the countryside goes you'd have a hard time building a log cabin there!

I've been an avid fisherman for decades and never knew that salmon can be caught with a camera.

I'd love it at the end of each season if you were sent a report by 'the all seeing eye'! In that report it told you how many pools you fished that actually did or did not have fish in at the time. What casts you made which had fish interested etc. It's a complete fantasy but it would be great just to know. It's a really interesting video just to see how the salmon react. Amazing shots.

Wonderful video!! The best!

Thank you for that piece of info. the rod is a single handed 7. It´s perfect for grilse and bigger trout, especially sea trout. For bigger salmon it is better to have a double handed rod.

Nice Video. Wish I was there. Maybe one day. Its certainly not like the Moy in Co Mayo.

Great video. Where is it from? Is it part of a nature documentary? I had luck with one of the sisters in Scotland - unfortunately the artificial kind (i don't mean a blow up doll :)) - interested to see that if you get a 'nibble' but not a strong take to go for something a different colour. Anyway, they are wonderful creatures. Tight lines.

Nice video!

What film is this taken from ... and where can I get a copy? Fabulous film.

looks like heaps of fun!

Brilliant ... anymore footage like this ?

Nice video very informative !

I wonder what type of camera was used for the underwater shots. Seems that it captured color reasonably well; not all underwater cameras do.

hi oku66. we used a special camera that is not very disturbing to the salmon. It´s called Pole Cam. But it took us a month to learn how to approach the salmon with the camera.

Do steelhead move for a fly like this as well?

probably never. I just did a series about a fishing competition btw me and my twin brother but the production quality was not like you can see here. The DVD from the series is coming out in the fall. But thanks for the positive comment.

Only took KZfaq 13 years to finally put this in my recommended

Nice footage

Cool video... 5 star. 8)

HI . No we didn´t search with the camera. we just went up and down the river - very carefully - and used our eyes...and polaroid glasses. we thought there might be a couple of fish in the pool! we didn´t see all of them until the camera was in the water.

nice video!!

We have same fish in New Brunswick Canada.Nice footage hope to see more

Great video gunnheil. Can you post up some more like this?

What type of camera did you use? Great quality.

beautifull!

Very Nice I love it

we get this close with a 12 feet pole and a small lense on the end but the camera recorder on the other end. everything is on a tripod where the screen and the controls for everything are. you can buy one for 20.000 pounds! The water has to be relatively clear though.

@ardrankin: there's a little program called Downadhelper. You can install it in you toolbar and then easily download all kind of films by just klicking the little icon. I use it for years now. Greetz, OQ

nice im going to Iceland tommorow

thank you very much sir.

thank you very much.

Thank you

The reason there's not many salmon there is the fact that Iceland still net Atlantic salmon

Jolly good show, old chap. More vids should be like this 😎

I would like to save this film to my iphone so that I can watch offline. Any idea how I can do this?

Aside from the horrible landing, that was a fantastic piece of work. Don't think I've seen anything like it. Thank you.

zymbotictoot you just got owned, and sweet video.

Crystal clear water, beautiful. Spare a thought for us Irish Anglers who fish peat stained rivers and can never know if we are actually covering a fish as we can't see if they are present or not.

A large full colour new book in our Canadian library features hand-tied saltwater tied flies. It features a dozen famous fly tie people form a lady in Scotland to the Mirimashi guy in NB Canada and down into Maine. Atlantic salmon, of course. The flies are incredible.

I like salmon there interesting

@05tech because you remove scales and a special slime that protects them against bacteria.

@horizanadventures thanks very much.

Some interesting notes 1) many takes could be unnoticeable for the angler 2) salmon rarely chase the fly too long, most takes happened when fly was very close to the fish 3) fighting of one hooked fish doesnt spook the rest of the crowd

Nice video! Let's get a group together to go to Mongolia for Taimen! -trouttrek-

good job dragging the fish on the gravel and rocks.

tak ska du ha. I´ll check out your site.

Nice video! Let’s be friend!

Get a net!

Nei maður er ekki alltaf klár í lönduninni. Besta flugan er Sunray Shadow að mínu mati.

I've been draggin fish out of our rivers for a good 50 years, at least. Trouts.

I appreciate salmon 'bash' themselves against the gravel on the river bed when making their redds but that landing ffs.

Ég ger i ráð fyrir að þú sért Gunnar Helgason ef ekki bendi ég á höfundaréttinn. Efnið er að ég held úr "Svona tekur laxinn." En alveg frábært efni.

Manic

Won't see clear river like that in California

@05tech Damages it's mucus layer and leaves the fish very susceptible to infection and disease.

Þessa á þekki ég eins og hendina á mér. Ólst upp í Nesjahverfi og þarna lék maður sér mikið. Er mögulegt að kaupa þetta á disk eða eitthvað slíkt? Var þetta gefið út?

Nice eating size salmon

@OMGitsme3335 . Oh, My God, the rod is Loop Grey Line and the line is Loop shooting head floating lIne. Everything number 7

I want to go

Why can't you drag the fish on land? Sry ima beginner

Hi Bjork, I have been ask to pass this to you as Bill isn't to good with technology. Gary. Hello! We are a charity based in Scotland and who operate a salmon fishing museum in the town of Kelso(see website) We would like to use a film clip of your video of the salmon underwater taking a fly on one of our screens in the museum and would be very grateful for your consent to copy this, and of any other underwater video which you might have Bill Quarry River Tweed Salmon Fishing Museum

I have been a flyfisher for years..i can tell you....fish dont feel pain, ! say what you like, i know the facts, ok, so i would not have landed a fish in this fashion, but it would still be fine if released , in any case he probably kept it, there are two catches on this vid as far as i can see,looks like a trout rod ? nice footage

No idea! Sorry!

Salmon But

hvað er besta laxa fluga í heimi firir þér plís svara :)

Fucking paradise

Don't get it! Right handed angler uses weaker left arm to play fish so that the simple process of winding can be done with the right. Too much unnecessary arm swapping for me! Never understood why any right handed angler needs to do this.

Cast are so bads ... But The vid is realy interesting !

@backwinter hvað heitir þessi veiðistaður

4:25 "There comes another one covered with gray lice and looking spritely" sea lice are nasty. Did he say what I thought he said?

Should have gone to spec savers LAND ??????????

That last fish won't make it

Thanks. My aim is to go to Mongolia to do similar stuff. Just need some sponsors. Any volunteers? já þetta er Gunni H og þetta er úr myndinni Svona tekur laxinn.

To me it looks like fisherman is not expert in his thing.

why the fuck is he taking som much time, can some1 enlight me, he got the fish, just pull it quickly.

The commentator knows nothing about fly fishing for salmon...... His idea is to change the fly when the salmon took the fly already on the line........ Ridiculous. A lot of mumbo jumbo is bandied about re the correct fly. Two flies are needed to catch salmon a light colour and a dark colour but in different weights. The weight is of paramount important because the depth at which it fishes is crucial........ The salmon pictured are ready to take in any case and are seen to rise quite a lot through the depth of water but the angler is not in touch with his fly. Fishing as such he will miss takes on a regular basis. Obviously he has not caught many salmon on the so called Fly.

sharpen your hooks

I can answer you if you could tell me first what is the time you allow for a landing? Are there any rules? About 5 minutes? or...what the fuck...???

This is "For Fun Fishing" right? Fishing for food, a bucktail spinner is faster and more successful. If you are hungry.

Dear zymbotictoot. I always pictured fly-fishers as beeing gentlemen. But obviously I was wrong. You are not a gentleman. I suggest you find another channel for your anger my friend. And remember. It wasn´t your fault your father drank! You were just a child! And for your information...there is nothing like a fresh wild salmon. And we can actually afford to keep them here in Iceland.

Ya you don’t know what your doing lol