Confirmed total catch from Laxa in Dolum is 1.717 salmon. Best pool on the river in 2016 was Home pool (15) with 261 salmon landed. Silent pool (7) produced 227 salmon. Hofðafljot (24) produced 167 salmon, Höskuldsstaðastrengur (11) 96 salmon and Donustadagrjot (26) 85 salmon. Many pools had 60-80 salmon landed, and fish was well spread through the system. The only dry spell we had was late august, beginning of September. This affected the catch numbers for two weeks, but numbers of salmon in the river still made sure that all partys had fantastic fishing. Average weight was higher than for many years, and we belive this will be the case in the future.

Laxa in Dolum had a fantastic season. The last group of the season ended with 134 salmon for 3 days of fishing, putting the total up to 1.717 salmon. This is fantastic fishing for only 4-6 rods (496 rod days). On top of that we had very high average weight, with hundreds of MSW salmon being landed. Dolum is finally back to the stage where we want it, having an outstanding season for the second year running (1.570 salmon in 2015).

The south/west coast rivers did not have a good season this year. Laxa in Kjos and Grimsa just passed 600 salmon for the 90 days season. Poor runs of grilse are the reason for this outcome, but it seems like the smolts did not go out to sea in the cold spring of 2015. As a result, double amount of smolts left our rivers this spring, expecting to show up as grilse in the 2017 season. We had very high average weight in 2016. Good runs of MWS fish in June and beginning of July kept anglers busy throughout the season, with largest ones being over one meter. Kjos had very good runs of sea-trout, and hundreds of fish up to 17 pounds landed. Over all. Not a good season. Laxa in Kjos had a drop from 1.400 salmon to 601 and Grimsa 1400 salmon to 606. We are expecting a very good one next year as it seems we are seeing two age groups of smolts overlapping .

The fishing on the Hofsa has been slow this year. But we are seeing large fish, and yesterday a fish of 104 cm was caught on beat 7. Hofsa is up to 440 salmon today, September 5th.

Laxa in Dolum has been very good this summer. Today we went over 1000 salmon for total for the 4-6 rods fishing. We still have this month to fish, and if we get good conditions we will get close to last years total of 1.400 salmon. There are large salmon being caught - and lost. Biggest one up to date is 22 pounds from Gislakvorn and 20 pounds from Kristnipollur. Large salmon was lost on Wednesday when angler played a monster for 2 hours and 15 minutes in Hofdafljot. The fish was lost in landing.

The first group on the Svalbardsa caught 26 salmon. This is the best opening since 2010. However, the group that came after did even better and landed 30 salmon, with 13 large salmon from the canyon in one afternoon shift. This is a fantastic start of the season and the river is full with big fish and high average weight

Last week produced 103 salmon for only 4 rods on Laxa in Dolum. This was mostly large salmon, with only few grilse amongst them. The river is up to 131 salmon already after only 9 days of fishing for 3-4 rods. Grilse runs appeared on Wednesday, so we are hoping that this good fishing continues for the coming groups.

The fishing on the Kjos is better than last year. We are 60 salmon ahead compared to last year's statistics. The difference now is that fish is spread all over the system and average weight is much higher than in previous years. We have a good number of fish between 80 and 95 cm in the river. Anglers are seeing the first signs of grilse and large sea-trout, and the meadows are now building up with large sea-trout in the 5-12 lbs range.

Looking back over the 2015 season is quite something. Last season produced 760 landed salmon for 2-3 rods, and only 75 days fished. We had very strong runs of grilse, with average weight of 7 lbs. This is unusual for Svalbardsa, since average weight has often been around 12 lbs.
Multi sea winter salmon were 244 in total, 32.2% of landed fish. We have seen this up to 80% in recent years.