Hofsá (, "shrine river") is a river in

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in the Northeastern part of

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. It is long and is a productive

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...

river.

Salmon fishing

The average annual catch between 1974 and 2013 was 1,119 salmon. The maximum catch during that period was in 1992, when 2,239 salmon were caught. The minimum catch was only 141 salmon in 1980. The average weight is usually between 3.0 and 3.5 kg. The exact number for 2013 was an impressive average of 3.1 kg. Hofsá has salmon for 30 km up from the river-mouth, and

trout Trout are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', ''Salmo'' and ''Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salmoni ...

for about 6 km. The salmon fishing season in Hofsá starts in early July, and ends in the middle of September.

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came to fish in Hofsá in his youth. This trip was depicted in the " Gold Stick" episode of in season 4 of ''The Crown''.

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* Rivers of Iceland {{Iceland-river-stub