Lapla Fishing Tours
Reading the water - Lapla Journal

Notes from 65° North

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From the water and the lodge

Fly fishing on a Lapland river

Fly Fishing in Swedish Lapland: the complete guide

Rivers, seasons, flies and tactics - everything you need to plan a fly trip to 65°N, from ice-out grayling to September browns.

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Spin fishing at golden hour

Spin Fishing in Swedish Lapland: the complete guide

Pike over a metre, char in the mountain lakes and perch that never stop - how to fish the open water around Storuman with lures.

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Winter Fishing in Swedish Lapland: the complete guide

Heated tents, snowmobiles and the hunt for the "Red Gold" - what winter fishing at 65°N really looks like, month by month.

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Ice fishing morning at 65 degrees North

Ice-out is coming early this year

The lake ice is thinning three weeks ahead of schedule. What that means for May's Arctic Char window - and why the early slots are the ones to book.

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Fly fishing the summer river

Guide's notebook: five flies for June grayling

Our head guide opens his box before the midnight-sun season - what's working on the riffles right now, and what the grayling are ignoring.

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Lapla Villa Swedish Lapland

A week at Villa Lapla, in photos

One family, five rods, seven days of water and sauna. A photo diary from the lake house at the edge of everything.

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Garmin Livescope sonar unit in the boat

How we rig our boats with LiveScope

Forward-facing sonar changed pike fishing on the big lakes. Here's our setup - and when we deliberately switch it off.

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Arctic Char - the Red Gold of Lapland

Red Gold: a beginner's guide to Arctic Char

Why the char turns crimson, where it holds under the ice, and how to land your first one without leaving the heated tent for long.

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Villa Lapla under snow in golden light

What to pack for a Lapland winter

The honest list after twenty winters: what you actually need, what we lend you, and the one thing everyone forgets.

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Evening cast on the river at Lapla Fishing

Stop reading.
Start casting.

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