Fishing Geography

When you look at the map of Finland, you can see right away that there is much water here: lakes almost everywhere, many rivers and countless small brooks and creeks. Finland is a long country spreading over 1 000 kilometers (more than 600 miles) from south to north. That means that we have many areas with vastly different geography and climate.

The Finnish watersheds reflect these differences. In the south we have quiet rivers flowing through hardwood thickets and cultivated fields. Central Finland has extensive lake formations with only some longer rivers in softwood (mostly pine) forests. When we go further north, we find vast spruce forests, low wetlands and numerous long rivers. And finally in the northern Lapland we get into high arctic fell country dotted with small lakes and brooks. With this kind of setting it's no wonder that flyfishing has lately become a very popular sport in Finland.