Norðurá broke its record this season
Excellent mws from Munaðarnes beat. Photo by Ólafur Vigfússon.
Norðurá 2008 season was brilliant. The river finished with an astonishing total of 3.308 salmon which is a record catch for the river. It‘s former record was established in 2005 and totalled 3.138 salmon. This was not the least a superb season due to the fact that the water levels became very low for several weeks during prime time. It was much the same as in 2007, the main difference being that the runs this year were far, far more powerful and the fish were starting to run at an earlier date.
The fishing was simply amazing. The top group on the main beats caught over 300 salmon which would during a normal fine season be a respectable tally for three prime time groups. One day produced 136 salmon. To put things into better perspective, the average catch from Norðurá over the past ten years is 1.853 laxar and last season the river totalled 1.447 salmon. At the time of writing we do not have the exact statistics for Norðurá 2, but we do know that its part in the record was substantial and important and many of the beats pools were packed with salmon.
