Catch & release

Do you need help to arrange your Åland fishing trip? Here you'll find tips and inspiration.

Åland is special in many ways – also when it comes to fishing grounds and fishing licenses. You are very welcome as a fishing guest and to fish in many of the waters around Åland. But a fishing license is always required – sometimes one, sometimes several, depending on where you want to fish.

Get acquainted with the Åland fishing grounds together with a skilled and experienced sport fishing guide. Read more about the different guides before you make your choice.

It doesn't matter how well prepared you are – the unforeseen may happen anyway. Your fishing rod may break, you may run out of ammunition or you may forget your warm underwear. Then the hunting and fishing shops in Åland are ready to help!

We asked some sport fishing guides in Åland about what their guests have to say after their fishing adventures in Åland. Here is a selection of quotes:

Seal hunting demands much from the hunter, both before and after the hunt. In the outer archipelago of Åland there is a great population of grey seals and the exciting hunt fascinates natives as much as visitors.

In 2008, the perch and the zander are in turn to be featured on two definitive stamps. The fish illustrations were taken from the illustrated work 'Finlands fiskar målade efter naturen af Gösta Sundman' issued in the late 1800s.

Gun Ejervik won first prize in Visit Åland's trade fair competition on a theme of champagne in 2011. The prize was a fishing weekend for four people. Let's hear Gun herself tell the story: