Municipality · Nordland

Fishing in Vestvågøy

Vestvågøy has 104 named lakes in NVE's lake database. The full list is below. A water on the list is not permission to fish it: check rules and fishing cards locally.

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Facts about Vestvågøy

County: Nordland
Named waters: 104
Fishing-card offer nearby: 0 of 104
Elevation: 2–338 m above sea level
Total area: 16.2 km²
Largest waters: Urvatnet 2.24 km², Farstadvatnet 1.25 km² and Ostadvatnet 1.22 km²
Species recorded: Brown trout, Atlantic salmon and Arctic char

Species recorded here

The number is how many occurrence records GBIF holds, not a measure of how much fish there is. It says the species has been observed in the municipality, not that it is in any particular water, and not that fishing for it is permitted.

Watercourses

The main watercourses the municipality’s waters drain into, by number of waters. The watercourse often decides which rules apply, since regulations are written per watercourse.

Vestvågøy kommune65
elv fra Farstadvatnet13
Ballstadelva5
Storfjordelva4

Bite table for Vestvågøy

In a browser, this block shows first light, dusk and the moon periods in Vestvågøy for today and the next two days.

Largest waters

Urvatnet2.24 km²3 m
Farstadvatnet1.25 km²3 m
Ostadvatnet1.22 km²23 m
Lilandsvatnet0.94 km²13 m
Lyngedalsvatnet0.82 km²18 m
Nedre Heimredalsvatnet0.69 km²8 m

Named waters

Almenningsvatnan
Bjørnskardalsvatnet
Bogtjørna
Brasetdalsvatnet
Brutjønna
Bøvatnet
Dalsvatnet
Dalvatnet
Farstadvatnet
Forsdalsvatnet
Forsvatnet
Geitvatnet
Grønnlivatnet
Gårdsvatnet
Haugvatnet
Heivatnet
Holdalsvatnet
Håtindvatnet
Høgpiggsåstjønnan
Indre Lyngedalsvatnet
Innervatnet
Justadvatnet
Kjekstjønna
Klevatnet
Kretjønna
Kvanndalsvatnet
Lilandsvatnet
Limstrandvatnet
Linndalsvatnet
Litl-Svarholtvatnet
Litle Kringlebotnsvatnet
Litlgeitvatnet
Lomtjønna
Lomtjønna
Lomtjønna
Lomtjønna
Lomtjønna
Lyngedalsvatnet
Lågvatnet
Løvdalsvatn
Midtre Heimredalsvatna
Molandstjønna
Molandsvatnet
Mons Johantjønna
Mørkdalsvatnet
Mørkdalsvatnet
Mørkdalsvatnet
Nakkvatnet
Nedre Heimredalsvatnet
Nedredalsvatnet
Ner-Storfjordvatnet
Nertjønna
Nervatnet
Norddalsvatnet
Ostadvatnet
Otertjønna
Penningvatnet
Ramnflogvatnet
Ramsvikvatnet
Reppvatnet
Risjordtjønna
Sevtjønna
Sevvatnet
Sjøvatnet
Skimtvatnet
Skjerpvatnet
Skrådalsvatnet
Skullbruvatnet
Smedvikvatnet
Solstadvatnet
Sortenvatnet
Spengersvatnet
Stor-Svarholtvatnet
Store Kringlebotnsvatnet
Storeidvatnet
Storfjordvatnet
Stortjønna
Stortjønna
Storvatnet
Storvatnet
Svarttjørna
Tjuvhusdalsvatnet
Tjønna
Tjønnan
Tjønndalstjønna
Torvdalsvatnet
Trolldalstjønna
Trolldalsvatnan
Trolltjønna
Urevatnet
Urtjønna
Urvatnet
Utdalsvatnet
Utdalsvatnet
Vasskarvatnet
Vervatnet
Vesterdalsvatnet
Vestredalsvatnet
Vikjordvatnet
Vikvatnet
Åstjønna
Øvervatnet
Øvre Heimredalsvatnet
Øvretjørna

The rules for this area

Finnfisk does not reproduce local rules, because they are set per water and per watercourse and they change. Season, minimum and maximum sizes, daily quotas and closed seasons come from the rights holder who sells the card, and from the regional regulation.

There are 7 salmon fishing offers in this area. Fishing for salmon, sea trout and sea char in a watercourse requires the state fishing fee from age 18, on top of the fishing card, and all catches must be reported. See the salmon guide

Sources: NVE lake database (waters, elevation, area, watercourses), GBIF (species records), SSB (municipality and county) and inatur (fishing cards). Fishing-card proximity means “offer in the area”, not that a specific water is covered. Rules are not reproduced here, verify locally.