(Sigvaldi Eggertsson) wrote in message . com...
(Kevin Brooks) wrote in message . com...
Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
I had dinner last night with a couple from Tierra del Fuego, the big
island to the south of Argentina (and part of it). They mentioned a
trout-fishing stream where an all-inclusive package ran $1,000 a day
(but not including airfare to Usushia!).

I had plans to go to Iceland after arctic char a couple of years
ago--but when told the daily fee for a section of stream was going to
run me $900 (that would allow up to four fishermen, or "rods", on that
section), I decided that Wyoming was a better destination for this
fly-fisherman-on-a-budget...

Brooks

In what river?!!
This is around the price of the most expensive salmon rivers in
Iceland.
Trout fishing is much less expensive, $ 100 - 200 pays for a river
with a hut or a summer house included, smaller lakes and streams cost
much less.

The Icelandic guide I corresponded with must have given me some bad
info; we exchanged a few e-mails, and I specifically asked him (after
picking my lower jaw up from the floor upon reading the $900 quote) if
that price was not directed at salmon, which I was not interested in
pursuing--he said it did not matter. Kind of nixed my plans to go to
Iceland, something I had been looking forward to for some time; I
remember running into a USN P-3 crew dog while fishing a stream in the
mountains of my home state many years ago, and talking fishing with
him for a while. He had pulled a couple of 179-day TDY rotations (this
was back during the bad ol' days of the Cold War) in Iceland, and
talked about catching char on his flyrod until, in his words, he
actually got *bored* with pulling them out of the water. Having been
raised eating its close relative, the brook trout (which IMO is much
more flavorful than any brown or rainbow trout), I always wanted to
try some fresh char (finally did so in a local seafodd restaurant--it
was IMO better eating than salmon), and especially was interested in
smoking some. But even at $200 a day I can find cheaper locatins,
either in Alaska or Canada, to go after the char. Euros who are used
to paying significant money to fish good streams might find Icelandic
fishing a good deal, but to an American who is used to fishing
thousands of miles of public or publicly accessable waters throughout
the US for free, the cost seems a bit high.

Brooks