Do You Catch Fish on an Ice Fishing Trip in Rovaniemi?

Sometimes, and no one promises it: catching fish is not guaranteed on Arctic GM Experiences OY’s lakefront trip or on the others, and reviews from Rovaniemi include whole groups who caught nothing. If the fish is the point, book time on the ice with a fisherman; if the day is the point, book Safartica’s Snowmobile and Ice Fishing Adventure with Lunch, where the snowmobile and the soup lunch by the fire make the day whatever the hole gives you. It costs US$186.44 per adult on November dates, US$219.34 in December and US$208.32 from January to March (checked November 2026).

What is promised

A “Guarantee of catching fish (we try our best, but nature decides!)” is among the things not included on Arctic Safari Guides’ trip with a local fisherman, and catches are not guaranteed on Uncle’s Fish’s evening trip. On Safartica’s day the fish goes into the lunch “if you’re lucky”.

What they do promise is the method: you drill your own hole (or watch the guide drill it), get a rod and bait, and fish a frozen lake or river chosen by the guide. Perch and pike are the fish you might catch at Arctic GM Experiences OY’s lakefront, and perch or other freshwater fish on Apukka Resort Oy’s Ice Fishing like a Finn, where the guide cooks any catch as a snack.

What reviewers report

Safartica’s snowmobile day. In February 2026 one guest wrote “ice fishing was nice experience even though we did not catch any”, and another was “glad that we didn’t catch any fish”. In January 2025 a reviewer noted that “some of our other participants caught fish”; in December 2024 another “didn’t catch anything but someone in our group did”. The fishing is one stop in a 5-hour day, and a guest in December 2024 felt it was only about twenty minutes.

Wild about Lapland’s 3-hour Ice Fishing Experience. Of its 350 most recent reviews, from February 2023 to May 2026, 268 give five stars and 40 give three or fewer, and much of the text in the low ones is about the fishing. “No one caught anything, and I know that’s not guaranteed but live bait would have been much better,” wrote a guest on 24 February 2026; others in January 2026 reported plastic bait and nobody in the group catching anything, and on 28 February 2026 a reviewer said the guide left the group on the ice for about an hour while he fetched wood and made a fire. Then there are the lucky ones: “I caught a fish. so it is great!” (December 2025), and in February 2025 “one guy caught a huge pike” that the guide cooked on the fire.

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If the fish matters

Choose time on the ice and a guide who fishes. Arctic Safari Guides’ Premium option gives about 3 hours on the ice against about 1.5 on its shorter option and about an hour on Wonderlapland’s 2-hour trip, and the company was founded by a lifelong Lapland local and fisherman. Uncle’s Fish goes out in the evening for burbot, which it describes as most active on midwinter evenings, fishing from a heated tepee on the ice with the permits included.

Prices, ratings and review counts from the listings (GetYourGuide checked November 2026), per adult; the second card’s From price is its 2.5-hour option for two adults. Prices are a guide, not a quote: the price for your date shows in the calendar before you pay.

If it does not

Pick the trip for the rest of the day: the snowmobile and the soup on Safartica’s day, the photos on Beyond Arctic’s Ice Fishing on a Frozen Lake with BBQ and Photos, or the quiet of a private lakefront with Arctic GM Experiences OY. Snowmobile and ice fishing compares the snowmobile days, and ice fishing prices every trip by price.