The Lagan is one of the four great salmon rivers of Sweden's south-west coast, running two hundred and forty-four kilometres from Tahesjon near Taberg down through Varnamo and Ljungby to the Bay of Laholm on the Kattegat. Its middle and upper course follows a line of crustal weakness, the Protogine Zone, straight across the southern uplands. Hydropower transformed it in the early twentieth century — the dams drowned the old spawning grounds, and the run is now sustained by a compensatory hatchery releasing some ninety thousand smolts a year — yet it remains among the country's better salmon fisheries, the lower river giving up around three thousand fish in a good season, the heart of it at the Karsefors falls above Laholm. The character is broad, regulated, lowland water over a glaciated bed. Wading is steady on firm gravel and rock through the lower beats below the dams.

Wading: Regulated levels below the dams

Halland cluster sea-trout-first river — restoration and estuary protection matter more than headline salmon catches