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.

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