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Ice fishing price in Muonio: the costs you can and cannot see

Close-up of gloved and bare hands holding a small pike just lifted from a hole in the ice

Illustration photo: a catch on the ice, not from the trips priced here.

Lapland Handbook Staff How we research this

The short answer

To know the cost before you go, book in Ylläs or Levi: the walk onto Lake Ylläsjärvi costs from 73 euros a head with clothing and gear, the campfire trip from 74 with transfers from Ylläs, and the Levi soup trip 89. For a Muonio trip, ask the price and the cancellation terms first. Fishing alone is cheapest: one rod on a lake is free, and anything more needs the 6-euro day fee for adults.

How the operators compare

Prices are the operators' own published starting prices as of the date this guide was updated, and they change through the season.

Northwind: Lake Ylläsjärvi on footLapland Safaris: Ylläs campfireKeo Wilderness: Levi
Price €73 – the lowest price per person €74 €89
Length 1 h 30 min 2 h 30 min 2 h 30 min
Clothing Included Included Not in our record
Food Hot drink, biscuit Coffee, snack Salmon soup
Cancelling Free until 24 h before €25 fee from 72 h, full price after Not in our record

Highlighted figures are the best in that row: the lowest price per person. All three price per person and are 46 minutes' drive from Muonio. No Muonio trip is in the table because none published a price on the reading date.

Where these figures come from
  • Northwind: Lake Ylläsjärvi on foot: An hour and a half on the lake a short walk from the safari house, with winter clothing, gear, a hot drink and a biscuit.
  • Lapland Safaris: Ylläs campfire: Two and a half hours by a campfire after a short drive, with a thermal outfit, coffee and a snack.
  • Keo Wilderness: Levi: Two and a half hours from a heated wooden shelter, with hot salmon soup, for up to eight people.

Three kinds of price sit behind ice fishing from Muonio, and only two of them can be read today.

The Muonio trips: not priced yet

The resort’s outing and the heated-tent trip both exist, and neither had a price attached in late September: the resort lists its ice fishing without one, and the tent company opens its sales nearer winter. What each includes is on ice fishing in Muonio.

The trips in Ylläs and Levi

The cheapest priced trip within reach is the walk onto Lake Ylläsjärvi, from 73 euros a head with clothing, gear and a hot drink.1 The differences between the three are less in the price than in the length and the food.

Fishing without a guide

A single rod through lake ice costs nothing on a lake. With a lure or more gear, adults from 18 to 69 pay the national fee, from 6 euros a day.2 The Ylläs trips are set out in full on ice fishing in Ylläs, and the Levi prices on ice fishing price in Levi.

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Questions people ask

What do two adults pay?

At the published prices, 146 euros for the walk onto Lake Ylläsjärvi, 148 for the Ylläs campfire trip and 178 for the Levi soup trip. Add the drive from Muonio, about 46 minutes each way to either resort. The Ylläsjärvi walk includes transfers only within Ylläsjärvi and charges extra for them from Äkäslompolo, so check where you would have to meet.

What would a week of fishing on our own cost?

With one rod through lake ice, nothing. If you fish with a lure or more gear, each adult between 18 and 69 pays the national fisheries management fee: 16 euros for a week, 6 for a day or 47 for a year. On the Muonio river the border river rules apply, so check them before drilling there.

What will cancelling a Muonio trip cost once it is on sale?

More than the Ylläs trips. The resort takes the full price in advance and its terms keep the whole amount if you cancel. The heated-tent company keeps five per cent up to 30 days before, half from 30 to 7 days and all of it in the final week. The walk onto Lake Ylläsjärvi can be cancelled free until a day before.

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Lapland Handbook Staff

Lapland Handbook is written by its editorial staff in Rovaniemi. Every price, age limit and group size in a comparison is read from the operator's own page and marked "Not stated" when the operator does not publish it. Each guide names who should not book, and names the operator that suits each kind of group, whichever it is.

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