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Private ice fishing in Sodankylä: how to arrange a trip of your own

A small yellow and blue ice fishing shack with a stovepipe standing alone on a wide snow-covered frozen lake under a white sky

Illustration photo: a fishing shack on a frozen lake in North America, not in Sodankylä.

Lapland Handbook Staff How we research this

The short answer

For a couple or a family, write to Arctic Wonders and ask for its snowmobile and ice fishing trip for your party alone: it invites private groups to e-mail. For a group of eight or more, ask Arctic SISU for a group offer on its remote lake trip or its long day. Ask both for a single total and whether the date can move with the weather.

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.

Arctic WondersArctic SISU Experience
Private route Private groups on request Group offer from 8 people
Suits A couple or a family A party of eight or more
Getting to the ice Snowmobile, two to a machine Driven to a remote lake

Nothing is ranked: neither company prices a private fishing trip, so the table shows the way to ask and what the trip would be built on.

Where these figures come from
  • Arctic Wonders: Takes guests out by snowmobile to fish, two to a machine, and invites private group requests by e-mail.
  • Arctic SISU Experience: Drives small groups to a remote lake, at most eight, and prices groups of eight or more on request.

A private ice fishing trip in Sodankylä has to be asked for, and each of the two companies has its own way in.

For a small party

Arctic Wonders invites bespoke requests and private groups to write to it.1 Its fishing trip already rides out by snowmobile with two people to a machine, so a family’s request is mostly about keeping the departure to yourselves.

For a larger group

Arctic SISU Experience offers tailored pricing to groups of eight or more,2 which at that size means its remote lake trip or its long day for your group alone.

The shared trips are compared on the best ice fishing in Sodankylä.

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Questions people ask

Could the private snowmobile safari include fishing?

Not as listed: the private safari is three and a half hours of riding with no fishing gear in its inclusions. Since the same company already sells a ride out to fish, ask whether the two can be combined for your group, which would give you the private departure and the fishing in one trip.

What would a private fishing trip cost?

Neither company publishes a figure. The shared trips cost from 170 to 350 euros a person on the platforms, depending on length, so expect a private trip to cost at least what your party would pay for places on a shared one. Ask for one total that includes the transport and the equipment.

Can a private trip go to a particular lake?

Neither company names the lakes it fishes. On a private trip you can at least say what matters to your group, such as a short ride for a child or a spot sheltered from the wind, and ask the guide whether a lake that fits is possible on your date.

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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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