SAI trip to Iceland!
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:55 pm
Just going to throw the idea out there chaps.
I've been looking into a trip to Iceland to do some shore fishing because I've seen a few articles in the fishing magazines and it looks fantastic, loads of big cod (quite a few to double figures), big haddock, plaice, whiting, lemon sole, ling all sorts!
I contacted a guy called Steve Mason who runs trips to Iceland for Irish & British anglers, he said he could cater for groups of up to 16. The best time to go is between April - September. He was telling me for all fishing tackle, bait, Airport transfers & accomodation, it would cost £550 (sterling) a man for a week, thats in or around €770 me thinks. Just pay for your own flights on the web, it'd probably come to around a €1,000 for the week.
Take a look at the link and see what ye reckon, http://www.worldseafishing.com/news/145 ... 01-29.html
Unfortunatley I won't be able to go this year but I'm really keen on going in April/May next year when Steve assures me the Cod sport is at it's best. Talk of 8 - 10lb fish a cast taking fishbaits before they even hit the bottom....Paradise
I've been in the situation before where I've gone somewhere (Dingle & Thailand for example)with non fishing mates or herself and ended up not doing as much fishing as I'd like, feeling guilty even for heading off for a few hours. This is the reason I've come down this road of organising a trip with dare I say it "Real Anglers", so that 12 hours a day are spent enjoying the sport that we ourselves had a long time ago before so many years of commercial over fishing decimated our stocks so drastically.
Any thoughts/interest in the SAI "Iceland" meet in April/May or am I going on my tobler??
I've been looking into a trip to Iceland to do some shore fishing because I've seen a few articles in the fishing magazines and it looks fantastic, loads of big cod (quite a few to double figures), big haddock, plaice, whiting, lemon sole, ling all sorts!
I contacted a guy called Steve Mason who runs trips to Iceland for Irish & British anglers, he said he could cater for groups of up to 16. The best time to go is between April - September. He was telling me for all fishing tackle, bait, Airport transfers & accomodation, it would cost £550 (sterling) a man for a week, thats in or around €770 me thinks. Just pay for your own flights on the web, it'd probably come to around a €1,000 for the week.
Take a look at the link and see what ye reckon, http://www.worldseafishing.com/news/145 ... 01-29.html
Unfortunatley I won't be able to go this year but I'm really keen on going in April/May next year when Steve assures me the Cod sport is at it's best. Talk of 8 - 10lb fish a cast taking fishbaits before they even hit the bottom....Paradise
I've been in the situation before where I've gone somewhere (Dingle & Thailand for example)with non fishing mates or herself and ended up not doing as much fishing as I'd like, feeling guilty even for heading off for a few hours. This is the reason I've come down this road of organising a trip with dare I say it "Real Anglers", so that 12 hours a day are spent enjoying the sport that we ourselves had a long time ago before so many years of commercial over fishing decimated our stocks so drastically.
Any thoughts/interest in the SAI "Iceland" meet in April/May or am I going on my tobler??