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Sarah Cuynet 15/04/2021 Sarah Cuynet 15/04/2021

Rent a boat for fishing in Norway : a fishing holiday package

Rent a boat for fishing in Norway is possible at Ersfjordbotn Brygge in Northern Norway, close to Tromsø. Actually, our holiday place is not only providing a rental boat but a fishing holiday package with accommodation, fishing room, a team at your service and transports.

Here, in Northern Norway, it is about struggling against cold waters and big amount of snow. But, it is also about midnight sun and billions of fishes! Thanks to midnights sun by spring and summer seasons, everyone here takes more time to enjoy outside activities like (shoveling!), top tour ski and fishing. For that last one, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, we suggest you to rent a boat for discovering what means sea fishing in Norway! Our great fishing holiday package can include a genuine cabin called here Rorbu, and a boat to enjoy thousands hours of fishing experiences.

At only 20 minutes by boat to the sea, you can have the opportunity to visit those awesome coasts, and even to fish in deep water the biggest Cod and Halibut. You can really expect several kinds of fishes. From a Cod personal best to a land of a huge halibut, there is so many exciting moments to live.

From the coldest months of February and March for Skrei (biggest et tastiest cod) to the warmest months for halibut and many others, we are sure that once you taste a Norway sea fishing holiday, you will return year after year. So if you are like Norweagians with seawater in your veins, be ready for that, you should have patient and strong power to lift out some of them!

Why to choose to rent a boat for fishing holidays in Norway at Ersfjordbotn Brygge?

It is a fact that in Norway you can find thousand of cabins (rorbuer) including a renting boat for sea fishing holidays. But you will not find everytime all our great services provided at Ersfjordbotn Brygge.

A fishing package with a team at your disposal and a fishing room

First and foremost, when you take a sea fishing holiday package at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, you have at your disposal a team who can help you with tips to stay focus in good spots to fish. You have also a specific equipment to suit our arctic weathers and trips.

When you come back at the end of the day, Ersfjordbotn Brygge offers you the service to tank your boat until the next trip. You don’t take care of the boat, but only your fishes!

After that, you just have to carry your fish in the fishing room. This fishing room helps you to make the fillets. Ersfjordbotn Brygge offers you the service of putting them in vacuum bags before freezing them and sending them to your own place.

Ersfjordbotn Brygge offers you the best: Cod from your fjord’s trips to your home!

Many of our guests uses to come back every year to fill up their freezer for the all year: cheaper, better, and a high sentimental value.

Meet different species with guided day trips

It is also possible to ask a guide on board with you to find all best spots. As a real sea fishing destination in Northern Norway, guided tours by Ersfjordbotn Brygge can help you to save time. Tours are perfect to learn all our specific fishes available here, but also spots to find them in order to never get bored !

Remind you too that you can enjoy sea fishing all year long. Of course, the summer months are the prime season notably because of the midnight sun and days that never gets end. But, on the other hand, coming before, during and after the polar night can offer not only time to fish the best Cod ever: the Skrei Cod, but also time to enjoy visits and other outdoors adventures like whale safari, northern lights etc…

About fishing restrictions

Finally, contrary to Oslo area, Lindesnes to Swedish border, there is no restriction to fish in Northern Norway cods or other fishers. You are just limited in the amount of Skrei that you can fish.

Thanks to the Norwegian country restriction, this is now the WORLD MOST UNSPOILED TRAVEL AND SEA FISHING DESTINATION for fishing salmon for example. Actually, it is hard to fish salmon in the fjord, but you can find some of them between June and August. Our salmons are easier to land in our lakes in the surroundings.

A cabin as a perfect accommodation for fishing holidays, and transport in norway

Escape from your daily routine, and choose a cabin, a Rorbu here, with all comfort and equipments included. We can also provide you the transport from the Airport to our place. From 1 to 8 people, it is possible to enjoy the way to, and back, Ersfjord, with us.

So now, you understand more why choosing us for a sea fishing holidays’ package. This is the best place to rent a boat for fishing in Norway! For sure!

Discover a lifestyle along a fjord in Northern Norway

Actually, Ersfjordbotn Brygge is dedicated to people who want to enjoy our lifestyle along a fjord in an arctic place. Our village is quiet but perfect for enjoying midnight sun and northern lights. Surrounded by big mountains, you have plenty of solutions for experiencing outside activities like hiking, camping, skiing and fishing. Our company Arctic Booking is dedicated to them.

And yes, just front of, the Ersfjorden is waiting for you (full of Cod!). It is appealing you with that long straight way until the sea, and its unlimited horizon line. For a genuine holiday experience, there is nothing like staying IN a village where fishing is still an important part of lifestyle.

Ersfjordbotn brygge for sea fishing holidays

At only 20 minutes by boat to the sea, you can have the opportunity to visit those awesome coasts, and even to fish in deep water the biggest Cod. You can really expect several kinds of fishes. From a Cod personal best to a land of a huge halibut, there is so many exciting moments to live.

Please leave us a comment or contact us for any questions about sea fishing holidays in Norway.

Rorbu and a boat for all your stay.

Northern lights outside the apartments (Copy)

Sarah Cuynet 28/10/2020 Sarah Cuynet 28/10/2020

Fishing Camp with Ersfjordbotn Brygge in Northern Norway

Are you passioned about fishing. If yes, come and experienced our fjord and deep sea fishing from one of the most beautiful place in northern Norway. Come in this post and discover what you are expected to catch: halibut, cod, salmon, redfish, saithe, wolffish, mackerel…

Ok let’s go for a Fishing Camp with Ersfjordbotn Brygge! Are you ready? Wait wait, maybe you need to be prepared on what you are about to catch before? Discover with us here, all informations about a fishing tour with Ersfjordbotn Brygge in Northern Norway, close to Tromsø.

First of all, have you seen the main page of that website and our services of rental boat and fishing tour?

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Our customers are used to come and stay in a Rorbu during the week, and rent by themselves a boat, to go fishing at anytime. This is the easiest way to fish here following tidal, light and weather forecast…

But, you can also come and ask for a guided fishing tour with us! You will discover our secret places to catch the best and the biggest. We are not lying, Ersfjordbotn Brygge is an international well-known place to fish between fjord and deep sea.

It is also well-known because of its fishing room. Indeed, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, you can bring your own fishing rob but we borrow winter inflatable suits, and a place to take care of your catches. This fishing room helps you to make the fillets and out them in vacuum bags before freezing them and send them to your own place.

From our fjord to your home!

So, enjoy not only the fishing tour, but also the time to prepare them, to measure them, to sort them.

What kind of fish can be caught in Northern Norway?

So, a comfortable way of fishing ok, nice, but what are you expecting to catch? Let’s discover with us some details about the most commun fish easy-to-fish.

Sebastes viviparus - Norway Redfish

A redfish can be caught in the Ersfjorden. Usually, it lives on deeps between 80-1000 meters, in large shoals. It eats small fish and shrimps. Its weight can reach over 20 kg and a length up to 1 meter. But the most common here, is a 20 cm and 2 kg. Use your basic lures with 3-5 hooks.

You can cook it simply with a butter sauce: grilled, pan-fried, on the Half-shell with salt and pepper, but cumin, curry and chili sauce are welcomed!

Saithe - Coalfish - Pollachius virens

The saithe is the one and only one enough strong to swim through the strongest tidal in the world, the Northern Norway one. During its migration, Coalfish eats herring, sprat, krill and other prey which makes it tasteful for us. Trust on us, Saithe is the easiest to catch from Ersfjordbotn Brygge. Indeed, each year, 300.000 tons are caught by the country everywhere around. Size: up to 120 cm and weight up to 30 kg.

You can cook it with grated potatoes, onion or in a soup.

Wolffish - Anarhichas lupus

For us, definitely the ugliest but the strongest and the most dangerous one: even a severed head can bite you! We called it also Catfish. A Wolffish feeding mostly on mussels, crabs and sea urchins. May and July are the best time to catch it in the Ersfjorden, between 20-50 meters deep. Use baits like blue mussels and coolish fillets. You can expect to get up to 140 cm and 25 kg…

The meat is delicate and often served as chops.

Halibut - Reinhardtius hippoglossoides

Halibut is for us the best! Not only because of its weight and size up to 400 kg and 350 cm but because of its taste. It prefers the cold and deep waters (200-2000 meters). It is easy to recognize because this is the biggest flatfish and most stretched body shape than other flatfish.

It eats cod, herring and coolish, but it is able to feed on octopus and crabs. You can catch it on sand, gravel, stone from 5 to 2000 meters deep, in current water between high/low tide.

Cod - Gadus morhua

The Gold of Norway from decades!

Only in saltwater, primarily this is a sea bottom fish, you can find it over 600 m deep. Its size is up to 1,8 meter and 56 kg. There are two kinds of cod.

The first one which stays below the weed into the coastal areas, eating crabs and crustaceas. A really tasteful one! It is red, orange and brownish.

The second one, is coming from the Barents Sea. It accrosses the northern sea during its first years. Through that cold water, it will feed, grow, thick itself until arriving to Lofoten. We use to dry it in cold and clear weather during March/April. But we use also to cook it fresh; frozen fried and salted. It is only brownish.

Valentine’s Fish, the Skrei

To finish, you need to know the Valentine’s fish, the Skrei. It is a kind of Cod, but this one is the strongest and the first to come into the Norwegian coast. But also the hardest to catch by fishermen into dangerous seas during winter…and the romantic month, February.

Full of firm muscles, firm and delicate white meat, this is the highest quality of cod you can taste. It’s suitable for various preparations.

Mackerel - Scomber scombrus

The easiest fish to cook, the Mackerel.

Maximum 66 cm and 3,5 kg, it is a fast and muscular swimmer. It uses to live in large shoals in seawater from Morocco, to Norway where it is more in summer and autumn. You can find it at the surface eating krill, herring and sprat.

Salmon

Last but not least, the Salmon. The second gold of Norway, known and eaten everywhere in the world.

Thanks to the Norwegian country restriction, restoration after the parasite gyrodactilys Salarius, this is now the WORLD MOST UNSPOILT TRAVEL DESTINATION. Salmon is used to be caught into rivers but we are used also to fish them in the Ersfjorden. The best time to fish Salmon is from June to end of August. Early in the season is the best to catch the biggest.

Now you are ready to go…in case of you don’t trust on our experience…Take a look at our gallery below and enjoy your next fish camp with us. See you soon!