Fishing Guides
Long-form guides to the rules that decide where you can actually fish — licences, permits, access and the exceptions that catch visiting anglers out. Each one compares countries side by side and links every claim to the agency that made the rule. 5 guides.
Where to fish if you have never fished
Most of what gets written about these destinations assumes you already fish. This is the opposite list — real places, drawn straight from AnglerDeck's own spot pages, that are genuinely built for a first trip, plus a short list of what to save for later.
· Covers Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany, United States, New Zealand, Japan, Norway, United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Argentina
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A year of fishing seasons, by country
Nineteen countries don't share one calendar — half run on the northern hemisphere's clock, some on the tropics' wet and dry seasons, a few on their own statutory closures entirely. This lays the year out month by month, so a trip gets planned around when a country actually fishes well, not just when it's convenient to fly.
· Covers Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Russia, Poland
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The world's great salmon rivers, compared
Six Atlantic salmon rivers, on four different licensing systems, with four different ways of deciding who gets to fish them — from a lottery in Arctic Norway to a river no country fully owns. What actually separates a great salmon river from another one isn't the fish. It's how you get access.
· Covers Norway, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Canada
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Fishing licences in Europe, compared
Nine European countries, and nine different answers to "what do I actually need to fish here". Some issue a licence nationally, some regionally, some through a local association, and one makes you sit an exam. Every claim traces to the agency that made the rule.
· Covers Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Finland
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Where you can fish without a licence
A country-by-country comparison of where recreational fishing needs no licence — and where "no licence" still does not mean "no permission". Every claim links to the agency that made the rule.
· Covers Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Russia, Italy, Spain, Finland, France
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