Kautokeino, Finnmark, Norway
Finnmark Trout Week
A week of wild brown trout fishing on the rivers of the Finnmarksvidda, with grayling and Arctic char alongside. Seven nights in Kautokeino, six days on the water.
The trip in brief
- The week
- A hotel base in Kautokeino and six guided days on the rivers of the Finnmarksvidda, a different stretch each day.
- Who
- One to three rods, one group per week. Two weeks in July, our first season.
- Included
- Hotel with breakfast and dinner, packed lunches, the guiding and all the driving, airport transfers, the fishing permit.
- Price
Price / 7 nights
- 1 angler
- €4,900
- 2 anglers, per angler
- €4,250
- 3 anglers, per angler
- €3,450
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The fishing
The Finnmarksvidda is the high plateau at the top of Europe: a day's walk of river for every angler in sight, lakes nobody has a name for, and summer light that never switches off. The brown trout are what the week is built around. They hold in the necks and seams where the rivers pick up pace, they take dries, nymphs and streamers depending on the day, and the good ones are the kind you remember. This is wild, unstocked trout water. The grayling eat dry flies all day long. When the wind lies down we can go after Arctic char in the colder lakes: a mysterious, beautiful fish most travelling anglers have never caught. Gear is simple: a single-hand 5 to 6 weight, a floating line, dries, nymphs and a few small streamers. If you can fish a dry fly on a stream you will be fine. The guide handles the rest: the water, the walking routes, the flies that work here, and the daily call on where to go. We've fished this country for years on our own holidays. This is the week we'd want to buy, so we built it.
The water
The rivers of the Finnmarksvidda around Kautokeino, at 69° north. Open plateau country: slow tea-coloured bends, fast gravel necks, and long seams of trout water between the birch and the bare fell. Most days are river days, and there are clearwater lakes along the way worth checking out, char in some of them. You will usually have the water to yourselves.
Best timing
July is the vidda's high summer. The midnight sun holds until late in the month and the big insect hatches are on. The trout fish best in the mornings and through the long bright evenings, and because the sun never sets, those evenings go on as long as you do. Grayling feed on top through the whole endless day, and the char sit in the cooler lakes, coming up when the wind lies down.
From the water
Where the wild trout jump
This film was shot on the waters this week fishes. Dry fly fishing in Finnmark at its best: the brown trout were in a jumpy mood that day, and we got the jumps on camera.
Watch the film →
Dates and prices
- 1Pick a week below.
- 2Hold it free for seven days while you check flights and talk to the others.
- 3We email you within 24 hours to help you plan. The deposit link comes with it, for when you're ready.
Price / 7 nights
What's included, and what's not ↓
One group per week, 1 to 3 anglers.
30% deposit, balance 21 days before departure. Terms →
Open weeks: 2027
July
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Included
- ✓7 nights at the hotel in Kautokeino, with breakfast
- ✓Dinner every evening and a packed lunch on fishing days
- ✓6 guided days on the water, a different water each day
- ✓All driving to and from the water during the week
- ✓Transfers from Alta Airport (ALF) both ways
- ✓Your Finnmark fishing permit for the week
Not included
- –Flights. Alta (ALF) has direct flights from Oslo
- –Travel insurance
- –Fly fishing gear. Bring yours
Day by day
Land at Alta. We meet you at the airport and drive two hours south across the vidda to Kautokeino. Check in, eat, rig the rods and talk through the week over a map.
Six fishing days. Each morning we pick the water where the trout should feed best that day, and the day is shaped around them: a stretch of river necks and seams, grayling rising around you all the while, and when conditions are right, an evening going after char on a lake. In July the sun doesn't set, so the day ends when you've had enough, not when the clock says so.
Breakfast, then the drive back to Alta for your flight home.
