The Hofsa Angling Club adds two years to their current deal
One of Hofsa's elder statesmen...about to be released amid a duel of who's lower hook is bigger!
The Hofsa Angling Club, outfitters of Hofsa over the last decade have recently struck a deal with the rivers owners to hold on to the river to the end of 2011.
According to Edda Helgason, fronting the outfitters, the collaboration with the landowners has been fruitful and successful and the river itself has a top billing in Iceland as one of the most sought after, not the least for its big fish reputation. Nevertheless the harsh economic climate has changed things. While most of the foreign clients have stayed on some of the locals have been forced to put salmon fishing to one side as they strive to get thrpugh the reccession. „That means that this formerly as good as closed river now has on offer rare opportunities for new anglers to come in and stake their claims,“ Edda told us.
While mws salmon have been in a sharpe decline in Iceland as well as in other countries, several rivers in the country have actually kept their stature with the mws‘s and one of them is Hofsa. Edda thinks that is down to the catch and release policy for all mws salmon over the last decade. Some of the other rivers in the same grade have similar rules in place which gives weight to the theory. Last season 46% of the catch were mws‘s and among them were 58 over 90 cm and seven in the ultra heavyweight class of exceeding 100 cm. The average catch for the river over the last five years is an excellent 1.604 salmon on 7 daily rods.
