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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?
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
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
Saithe - Coalfish
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
Wolffish
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
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
Cod
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
Mackerel
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
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!
Winter holidays in Tromsø: what is it about?
Plan your next winter holidays in northern Norway at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, close to Tromsø. You will experience the most beautiful fjord in the surroundings, during a special moment of the year: the polar night, with its blue light, its cosy mood. Many activities are possible during the daytime, and the nighttime, let’s plan them together!
Jingle Bells Jingle Bells…, well well…stop, stop it now please! This is winter time since months here in Tromsø…We can’t speak about this season by starting at Christmas. Here, we consider the winter season when the snow and the polar night are coming. Discover our awesome landscapes, culture and wildlife, without any other color than the white of the snow and the blue of the sky. For that, you will definitely love our holidays’ place, Ersfjordbotn Brygge!
November Sunset from the Cable Car of Tromsø
Polar Night: such an experience of holidays
Most of the time, we start to prepare ourself to winter in October. We clean the garden, sort the garage, and put the spikes weals… Snow is coming! So, after autumn holidays, no potatoe in the vegetable garden, we are ready to ski with headlight! So join us since November, if you want to discover the polar night which start November 27th, 2020.
Don’t be afraid to live it, or sad for us to be forced every year to jump into the darkness: it is the coziest moment of the year. And please, don’t say it is dark 24h a day: IT IS NOT! You will see fantastic colors and lights. Plus, you will have time to see the Northern Lights easier, longer, and oftenly!
So plan your winter holidays in Tromsø before January 14th, 2021, to experience a life without sun rays…but green lights!
The Blue Light
So, now you know there is no dark day. There is some hours with brightness lighting up the white mountains and the flat and quiet fjords around. It is the most peaceful place in the world!
Ok we are not really objectives though! But for sure, what is stunning here, is the contrast between the summer and autumn colors and the winter and spring one, which is only the white! And then, you will see our unique BLUE LIGHT. This is a mix between the brightness, the blue sky and the white summits. This unique set has to be seen once in a lifetime.
Tromsø by day, with the moon and the blue light
With Ersfjordbotn Brygge, we are not only offering Northern Lights’ Chase, but also some activities by day to enjoy that Blue light. And since the brightness is between 10:00 and 15:00, we are scheduling our tour during that time.
Please take a look at them, different holidays’ experience are waiting for you like snowshoes, top tour ski, fjord cruise, fishing tour, fjord visit by minibus…
Kose = Cosy
As we said before, it is the coziest moment of the year! Imagine, norwegian people (in the north by the way) have spent 6 months outside: hiking, bicycling, gardening, sailing…So it is ok to calm down a bit, to spend more time with kids, family and friends in a warmful way. So, our Scandinavian winter lifestyle is “Koselig”. It means to put you in a cosy mood. For that, you need a plaid, a book, candles, a coffee (tea is ok also…!) and just relax.
Your winter holidays in Northern Norway can be also for you, the most relaxing time of the year. Discover for that our Rorbu to rent, in the most beautiful fjord close to Tromsø.
Outside activities by night with headlight
Our last trick is to ask a special tour outside by night with headlight. It is really common for us to continue to do sports even if it is dark outside.
A hiking trip with snowshoes for instance is bewitching when you just can heard every single step you do, deeper and deeper in the snow, lighted up by the moon and the city lights
Winter holidays in Tromsø is the northernmost vacation experience that you can live… Try it now with us!
What is the best to visit in Norway?
From the South to the North of Norway, we don’t imagine how it is large, contrasted and complete. From the long and narrow fjords, to the Midnight Sun and the Northern Lights, thousands of experience have to be done. Follow us to plan the best.
Magnificient nature and culture is one of the best definition of Norway.
On the one hand, magnificent nature is composed by high mountains, rough seas, and opened and deep fjords.
On the other hand, culture is scandinavian, european, and for some citizen: Sami. Rich, historical, special, you can learn, understand and experience such different ways of living.
For sure, Norway has a lot to offer. Not fashionable destination, it is however, one of the most complete.
One country, almost two
Extending 1,752 km (1,089 mi) NNE-SSW, Norway has the greatest length of any European country, you have thousands of spots to explore. So, we help you here, to focus your stay with the best of them!
To describe a such country, you can use your arm!
From your elbow to your wrist, we consider it almost like the center and the north parts. The south is your fist.
Southern Norway
We use to hear more about that part which hosts the capital, Oslo and the biggest and touristic well-known cities like Stavanger, Trondheim, Bergen…Those four locations owns more than half of the citizen: +2,5 millions. The other part of the 5 millions are spread in the other parts. Norway’s density is only 13,94 p/km2!
The country is definitely more about nature than human life!
Besides, you can really feel that there is almost two countries. The south where everything happened, where people are…and the north. We almost forget the middle! We consider the North starts from the Polar Circle, around Bodø!
So, you don’t need us to plan your south exploration. Visit Norway has done a really good job to put on relief the best to visit: cultural spots, restaurants, and places.
But to dare yourself to progress up to the North, you have to continue your reading down here!
Gems hidden of Northern Norway
As Ersfjordbotn Brygge is built by a local man, for sure, you read here the real, the truth of Northern Norway: the gems!
Like we have said before, we can use our arm to describe the country. The forearm is narrow and long. You can really see it by eyes, when you travel from island to others from Lofoten to Tromsø for instance… There is almost no mainland! Gems are hidden in the corner of islands…
In Norway, you can count more than 50,000 islands and a coastline of 83,000 kilometres (because of the large number of islands and rugged coastline)! Most of those numbers are provided by that complexe North part. Hinnøya in Lofoten and Senja are the two biggest islands, Kvaløya where we are located, is the 5th.
Lofoten Archipelago in Northern Norway
To conclude, you are allowed to describe Northern Norway, before coming, like a place made by fjords, islands and mountains! With that, it is logically a lot to do here ALSO!
What to do in Northern Norway?
What to do is a question not only to plan your holidays but also to understand our real lifestyle here. The friluftsliv means a passion for nature cuts to the scandinavian hearts, a real open-air living.
Are you sporty? passion by animals’ life? fantastic sceneries? Come in!
Our place concentrates every thing you can see and do in Northern Norway with good accommodations and vibes. We are really close to the 7th biggest population in Norway: Tromsø, the Paris of the North. Thanks to that, you can join us by plane from everywhere in the world. Spend times like you use to in cosy café, tasteful arctic restaurants, interesting museum.
Tromsø, Capital of Northern Norway
Polar Night and Midnight Sun
But that’s not all! Like we are up to the Polar Circle, Polar Night and Midnight Sun offer you special experiences like anywhere else: endless sunsets and magical Northern Lights!
Summer is the best to camp close to the sea or up to the highest summit for enjoying a perfect sunset with no end! Kayaking, fishing, cruising, walking, hiking are so good here.
Flora and fauna are so special. You can expect to meet species of whale, orcas, dolphins, as much as sea eagles, reindeer, moose, wolves …of course you shall taste and fish the Gold Of Norway: Cod and Salmon!
Tromsø, Northern Light Capital
Beyond that species, you have of course one of the most natural phenomenon to experience: the Northern Lights. As we are located is one of the northernmost part of the Globe, Tromsø is today the Northern Light capital in the world!
And our fjord is one of the most well-known to see them.
Come and discover all our outdoor activities to live like a real scandinavian up to tour ski equipment by winter, and on board during summer! You can be surprised by the amount of activities provided here… Don’t forget that Trip Advisor had elected Tromsø like the 1st best experience of travelling in Europe, and the 3rd in the world… This is not for nothing! Ersfjordbotn Brygge can tailor-made for you the perfect schedule for your next holidays here.
Contact us and visit our activities’ page now!
Why choosing Norway to see the Northern Lights
Ersfjordbotn Brygge advises you its place not only like one of the best place in the world for chasing Northern Lights but also to enjoy outside activities by day!
Up to the Polar Circle, it is the easiest way to see Northern Lights. The more the north you are, the better. But our goal here, is not only to offer you a good answer about the Aurora but more to advise you some tips to enjoy all your holidays.
How is a Northern Lights Chase in Northern Norway?
Actually, here in Northern Norway, we have Northern Lights all year long. But, to see them, obviously, you need a clear sky and a dark night. And that this is not on a yearly basis! Summertime here, means also Midnight Sun which is the period where the sun does not go down. Because of that, from middle of April to end of August, there is too much light to see one Aurora in the sky.
What includes a Northern Lights tour with Ersfjordbotn Brygge?
So, if you plan to see the Northern Lights, Ersfjordbotn Brygge welcomes you in one of their Rorbu from September to March. For a night chase, you start at 18:30 with our guide and his mini bus which suits for max. 7 people. With a good local experience, he is able to chase depending the Northern Light activity and the weather forecast.
Between Finland border and the north of Ringvassøy Island, he is fixing your night’s schedule. That schedule includes a training to take pictures with your own camera because special equipment and settings are required like a tripod for example. Don’t miss to take one of yours if you have!
Our service includes also some other professional pictures taken by your guide. Pictures are shared some days after by email. Depending the chase, you can be back at your holiday place at midnight or later if it is necessary. Like it can be a bit cold outside, we plan for you some winter suits and a fireball. And then, as a local norwegian, you are able to stay some hours outside waiting for the magical phenomenon.
For sure, this is an unforgettable northern journey! The cherry on the cake is stories and tips shared by your guide. His passion for the Northern Lights is really not boring. With him, you reveal your child part that lies dormant in you! Emotions of a chase are just a training before your big meeting with the Green Lady.
Why choosing Northern Norway more than an another country?
In our days, there is not only one best place in the world to see Northern Lights since they have their own activity and movement around the upper part of the Globe. Don’t forget by the way, there is the same phenomenon in the South, named Aurora Australis. A place even colder for human life…
So, with some apps, you can follow the Northern Lights’ forecast: their movements, their strength (KP), their polarity (Bz). All that indexes are important to chase good. But as we said before, the weather forecast is also important. It is Nature, there is no button to push to switch them on…
Finally, you know now that you need t:
Choose a good guide in a good company (like us!),
Avoid the city lights
in a place the northernmost you can!
Hidden gems are waiting for you in Northern Norway
Where up to the Polar Circle, would you enjoy Northern Lights easily then?
Your best option is definitely Northern Norway. Over there, there are so many hidden gems waiting to be explored, in an area that is absolutely stunning and like nothing you've ever seen. So don't miss out on the experience of your lifetime because you're too busy trying to cross an item off your bucket list!
Northern Norway is more and more famous as one of the best travelling experience
Don’t think only travelling to see Northern Lights, but also to visit and enjoy by day. With that, you optimize your holiday’s investment and you collect fantastic memories by day and luckily by night if the weather and the aurora's activity allows you to.
Indeed, our local place, Ersfjordbotn is known as one of the most beautiful fjord around Tromsø. Tromsø city is an island welcome tourists in hotel. Our place is the most cosy village for doing outside activity without the massive number of people starting their day from a same pick up point.
Besides, most of them are located in our island Kvaløya, next to Tromsø, at only 25 min by the road. But the best is to start from there, and save time, isn’t it?
A family friendly place to experience thousands of outside activities
Activities you can find here are most of the time outside’s ones: top tour ski, husky and reindeer sledding, fishing tour by boat with or without a guide, fjord visit by boat or by bus. Definitely it is a family friendly place where to enjoy together!
Don’t trust people who had heard that it is really cold and really dark!
One the one hand, concerning the darkness, even if it is the Polar night, you still have light. No sun rays but still lights. All our activities follow daylight to schedule them the best.
One the other hand, concerning the coldness: it is not here either! Thanks to the Gulf Stream which is protecting us since it follows the Atlantic current. So Lapland, Finland, Sweden and Norway’s inner lands are thoroughly colder! Our basic temperatures during winter are between -10 to -3°C by day and night… You can handle it easily for sure! Have a look on our specific post to prepare rightly your luggage.
To finish, we advise you also our second websites dedicated to Arctic activities and booking. You will find the Northern Lights Chase and all the others to do by day here in the same time. With that from now, you can plan all your holiday’s schedule!
What do you have to plan if you want to come in Tromsø in autumn?
Between August and October, here it is autumn, for it is more from September to December. So let’s see what is possible here to plan as outdoor activities from Ersfjordbotn Brygge, and maybe a rorbu to rent and stay.
What kind of autumn are you talking about? We hope, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, you think about a european basic one, because here, up to the Polar Circle, autumn appears from August 15th to October 1 st! So, for a traditionnal autumn from end of September until December, there is a lot to experience, and you need to plan a bit to do the maximum you can!
Temperature and light in autumn in Northern Norway
Any case, our outside temperature change from up to 18°C to less than 10°C in the middle of august. But you can expect still, to have a nice weather with only some rainy days. By the way, as we use to say here:
There is no bad weather, only bad clothes!
So between August and December, here in Tromsø, you can expect a temperature between 9°C and 0°C. With that, it is not so freezing, you can stay outside and be active! Fortunalty for you, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge, we tailor-made a lot of outdoor activities and vacation homes to rent. With such packages, you don’t need to run from the fjord-side to the city center each morning! Just relax and enjoy yourself with our autumn / winter tours.
After the temperature, we can speak about a second important point here: the light. At the end of July, the Midnight Sun is finished. It means that the sun is going down the horizon line each night sooner and sooner. And then, in November, it will stay under the horizon line 24h per day, until January. This is the Polar Night.
So, if you have good clothes, and if you can manage to be outside, even if it is a low light, we have thousand ideas for you! Let’s see them below and what you have to plan to be amazed by our place.
10 activities to do around Tromsø in Autumn
When you tell about your visit to Northern Norway, for sure, you describe a country of thousand islands and reliefs. The best way to explain a scenery is to put a large part of sky to take a breathe of fresh air, surrounded by high mountains, and some large fjords. Everywhere you are you can experience some activities in nature, mountains or up to the water.
That’s why you can’t be bored here. Between a fjordtour by day in minibus to visit the corner, and by night to chase the northern lights with us, discover below our suggestions.
What to do in norwegian mountains at Kvaløya, our island?
Depending if you are coming early in autumn or not at Kvaløya island, you can’t see the same world! With or without snow, it is completely different. Without, you can hike in wet grounds, like Nåttmalsfjellet, Håtten or Buren. Those 3 mountains are our playgrounds all year long!
Håtten Summit
From Buren Summit
Nattmålsfjellet, called Klokka Ti here
So come with our guide up to the summits and discover our berries, our stories and tips & tricks!
When the snow appears we can do the same, with snowshoes and after, with a big amount of snow, we start finally, to do top tour ski…
What to do up to the water of Ersfjorden, our fjord?
Like we rent some Rorbu, you can live also like a fisherman, fishing the Gold of Norway: the cod, but not only. For that, you can go fishing with a guide, to enjoy the best spots, or you can drive on your own a rental boat. You will enjoy our fishing room on the way back, to save properly your fishes!
If you are not fond of fishing but still you want to experience a cruise, we organise also a 2-hours-tour by boat to cruise along our coast until the Norwegian Sea.
Call us and tell us your dreams, we can organize them together!
Why call we a cabin, a rorbu in Northern Norway?
Come and learn more about those cabins close to the fjord, with a special nordic architecture…!
Maybe you are looking for a place to sleep in Northern Norway for your next holidays, maybe you come back from there, with still some questions. Here is an answer about our norwegian architecture: what is a rorbu? What does it mean? Why do we call that a cabin?
First of all, if you have heard about Norway, you have seen them for sure! You know, those cabins close to the fjord in a special nordic architecture…
Modern and comfortable vacation homes is named Rorbu at Ersfjordbotn Brygge
At Ersfjordbotn Brygge, we rent vacation homes for 1 to 5 people that we called RORBU. But a Rorbu is really not like our comfortable and modern place.
Actually, we really advise you to read all the little lines of rental cabin called like that, because sometimes it could be an authentic one without any details of our contemporary furnishing!
Hva er en RORBU på norsk?
What is a Rorbu in norwegian?
A rorbu means a fisherman but if you divide the word, å ror is to row, and en bu means a little house.
Firstly, outside, that picturesque stilt house is generally built on a rock plus a use of poles, and made by wood. That architectural design is well-known and very used from 1100, up to the polar circle. The red color comes from the cheapest materials easy to buy at that time: the fish oil plus ocher pigments.
Then inside, typically, a rorbu consists of two rooms: a storage room for the cod and the food, and a living room with a bed.
King Øystein decided, in 1120, that rorbuer (cabins in plural) has to be built for fishermen. It is true that a long winter season of fishing requires a place to dock, and to deliver the fish. It is also right that the cod is still now the Gold of Norway. They had to take care of their fishermen!
However a fisherman cabin is not built to live but just to rest between two fishing times. That’s why it is, at the beginning, not so cosy and comfy. Still now, you can find cabin without water and electricity. Some scandinavian people are used to go in that authentic style, for holidays, to find again a simple and minimalistic life. It is also very good for kids to experience an another lifestyle without technology and so on…
Nevertheless, today, most of the rental rorbu you can find, are modern. They used to keep the wooden inside style, and the architectural shape for outside.
Come and experience the new lifestyle of a rorbu with us at Ersfjordbotn Brygge!
Our freshest offers are now online!
Discover what are the new offers since this summer 2020!
We hope our freshest offers through Arctic Booking and this website, appeal you to come or to come back again! Ersfjordbotn Brygge is not only a place to sleep but a real experience of arctic holidays.
Outdoor activities’ offers all year long
Since this summer 2020, we develop some news outdoor activities. In order to enjoy at its best the corner, and following the several kind of customers we can have here, the offers suit for everyone.
Indeed, it is possible to hike up to Kvaløya summits with snowshoes and top tour ski during snow time or without, for an hiking and guided tour.
If you are more fond of to be closest to the water, we provide now also different tours like a fishing guided tour, a fjord cruise by boat, a diving guided tour, or basic rental motorboat and jet ski to breathe the freezing air!
Last but not least, if you don’t want to be closed neither to the sky or to the water, you can be inside our country side, visiting by day, or chasing the northern lights, by mini-bus.
Take a real breath of fresh air
We have plenty of solutions to tailor your holidays, from Ersfjordbotn Brygge! Those family-friendly experiences allow you to discover the strong and powerful nature, this possibility of taking a real breath of fresh air!
“Stay active and curious is our TIP & TRICK to enjoy the most your arctic experiences from Ersfjordbotn Brygge. ”
Stay tuned, some new other adventures are coming soon… More news are still available on NEWS page.