Lake Þingvallavatn

ION fishing offers two private beats which are among the best in the world for big Brown trouts. There are some of the worlds biggest brown trouts in the Lake and just last year fish over thirty pounds was caught on one of our beats. It is quite common to catch a fish between ten to twenty pounds and several fish between twenty and thirty pounds are caught every year.

Þingvallavatn is a rift valley lake in southwestern Iceland. With a surface of 84 km² it is the largest natural lake in Iceland. Its greatest depth is at 114 m. At the northern shore of the lake, at Þingvellir (after which the lake is named), the Alþingi, the national parliament, was founded in the year 930.

The lake lies partially within Þingvellir National Park. The volcanic origin of the islands in the lake is clearly visible. The cracks and faults around it, of which the famous Almannagjá canyon is the largest, is where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates meet. Silfra fissure is a popular scuba and snorkeling site. The only outflow from lake Þingvallavatn is the Sog River.