A day out of town on the ice, with transport, warm clothing and food from the fire on most trips.
Pick a day, or the first and last day of your stay in Tromsø. We check the booking calendar of every fishing trip on this page and show which ones still take guests.
Your catch: Cleaned and cooked at the base camp
Duration: 6 h
Duration: 6 h
Your catch: Guide shows how to clean it, warm food from the fire
Your catch: Cooked over the fire, or reindeer stew
Every ice fishing trip on this page starts with a drive out of Tromsø, from half an hour to Ramfjordbotn to an hour and a half to Ringvassøya. The main choice is between salt water and fresh water: a frozen sea fjord in Ullsfjord or Ramfjord, or a lake on an island or in the hills.
The trip with Best Kept Secret to Sjursnes is a small-group outing rated at a medium activity level, with transport, hot drinks and snacks. Its listing does not say if you fish on a lake or on the fjord.
Where you fish, how long the day is, the clothing you get and what happens to the catch. Sorted by number of reviews; tap a column header to re-sort. The private trip is priced per group.
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Ice fishing on the fjord, Ullsfjord Skadi Adventures | Frozen sea fjord, base camp | Not stated | Not stated | Cleaned and cooked at the base camp | Transfer from Tromsø | ★ 4.9 (189) | €204 per person | Book now |
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Ice fishing at Sjursnes Best Kept Secret | Sjursnes · Small group | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Radisson Blu, transport included | ★ 5.0 (43) | €194 per person | Book now |
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Private ice fishing and snowshoe hike Rise Adventures | Mountain lake, snowshoe hike · Private, priced per group of up to 4 | 6 hours | Thermal suit, boots and snowshoes | Not stated | Kirkegata 2, then 40 minutes by car | ★ 5.0 (7) | €1331 per group | Book now |
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Frozen lake on Ringvassøya GuideGunnar AS | Frozen lake on Ringvassøya · Up to 8 guests | 8 hours | Thermal suit, boots and winter clothing | Guide shows how to clean it; warm food from the campfire | Magic Ice Bar, Kaigata 4 | New trip, no reviews yet | €252 per person | Book now |
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Sami culture and ice fishing, Ramfjord Hello Tromsø | Frozen Ramfjord, lavvu · Up to 15 guests | 4 hours | Thermal suit and winter boots | Cooked over the fire, or bidos (reindeer stew) | Quality Hotel Grand, bus to Ramfjordbotn | New trip, no reviews yet | €162 per person | Book now |
Prices come live from GetYourGuide and Viator and change with the date and the option you choose, so check the amount on the booking page before you pay for your trip.
Each pick suits one kind of day out. All trips on this page follow further down.
Skadi Adventures drives you to Ullsfjord, where you fish through the ice of a frozen sea fjord with the Lyngen Alps in view. The catch is cleaned and cooked at the base camp.
GuideGunnar takes up to eight guests to a frozen lake on Ringvassøya, with thermal suit, boots and winter clothing provided and lunch cooked over the campfire.
A sled behind a snowmobile crosses the frozen Ramfjord to a lavvu. You fish through the ice, hear Sami stories and eat your catch from the fire or bidos.
Boat, group, rods and what happens to the fish, trip by trip. Open a card for the full details.
Skadi Adventures drives you from Tromsø to Ullsfjord, where you fish through the ice of a frozen sea fjord with the Lyngen Alps in view. What you catch is cleaned and cooked at the base camp.
The operator gives the season as 5 January to 31 March.
Taken from the operator’s product page on the booking platform.
A small-group ice fishing trip to Sjursnes, rated at a medium activity level. Hot drinks, snacks and transport are included. The meeting point is the Best Arctic Hospitality Desk at the Radisson Blu hotel.
Best Arctic Hospitality Desk, Radisson Blu hotel, Tromsø
Taken from the operator’s product page on the booking platform.
✓ Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start
Book on GetYourGuideA private trip for your group: about 40 minutes by car from Kirkegata 2, then 30 to 60 minutes on snowshoes to a mountain lake. You drill your own hole in the ice and have lunch at the lake. Reviewers mention trout.
The operator asks for medium to high fitness, with up to two hours of walking without a path. Thermal suit, boots and snowshoes are provided. The price covers the whole group, up to four people.
Kirkegata 2, Tromsø
Taken from the operator’s product page on the booking platform.
✓ Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start
Book on GetYourGuideGuideGunnar collects you at the Magic Ice Bar and drives about an hour and a half to a frozen lake on Ringvassøya. The guide shows you how to fish through the ice and how to clean the fish, and lunch is cooked over the campfire. Moose or reindeer may turn up on the way.
The operator runs these trips from February to April. Thermal suit, boots, winter clothing and thermal underwear are provided.
Magic Ice Bar, Kaigata 4, Tromsø
Taken from the operator’s product page on the booking platform.
✓ Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start
Book on GetYourGuideA bus takes you from the Quality Hotel Grand to Ramfjordbotn, about 30 minutes away. From there a sled pulled by a snowmobile crosses the frozen Ramfjord to a lavvu, where you fish through the ice and listen to Sami stories.
The meal is your catch cooked over the fire, or bidos, a reindeer stew. Thermal suits and winter boots are provided. The group has between five and fifteen guests. The fjord has to be frozen for the trip to run; the listing names no months.
Quality Hotel Grand, Storgata 44, Tromsø
Taken from the operator’s product page on the booking platform.
What happens to your catch, group size, the suit you get and where the trip starts, taken from the product pages. “Not stated” means the listing says nothing about it.
| Tour | Your catch | Group | Whole trip | Suit provided | Start |
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| Ice fishing on the frozen fjord in Ullsfjord | Cleaned and cooked at the base camp | Not stated | 5 h | Not stated | Transport from Tromsø included |
| Arctic ice fishing at Sjursnes | Not stated | Small group | 6 h | Not stated | Transport from Tromsø included |
| Private ice fishing and snowshoe hike with a local guide | Not stated | Private, up to 4 people | 6 h | Thermal suit, boots and snowshoes | Transport from Tromsø included |
| Ice fishing on a frozen lake on Ringvassøya with campfire lunch | Guide shows how to clean it, warm food from the fire | Up to 8 guests | 8 h | Thermal suit, boots and winter clothing | Transport from Tromsø included |
| Sami culture and ice fishing on the frozen Ramfjord | Cooked over the fire, or reindeer stew | 5 to 15 guests | 4 h | Thermal suit and winter boots | Transport from Tromsø included |
From the GetYourGuide and Viator product pages, checked on 22 October 2026. The length of the whole trip is the operator’s figure.
The ice has to be thick enough before anyone can fish on it, and each operator sets its own dates. Skadi Adventures gives 5 January to 31 March for its trips on the sea fjord in Ullsfjord. GuideGunnar runs its lake trips on Ringvassøya from February to April. Hello Tromsø names no months for the Ramfjord trip; it depends on the fjord freezing over. The private trip with Rise Adventures has reviews from January and February. Before mid-January you are still in the polar night, when the sun does not rise, so early-season days are spent in twilight.
Ice fishing is mostly waiting next to a hole, and that is when the cold gets to you. Most trips hand out the outer layer: GuideGunnar provides thermal suit, boots, winter clothing and thermal underwear; Hello Tromsø a thermal suit and winter boots; Rise Adventures a thermal suit, boots and snowshoes. According to Visit Tromsø, GuideGunnar warns of temperatures down to minus 20 °C and does not allow jeans or trainers. Bring wool base layers, a warm hat, mittens over thin gloves and spare socks, even on the trips that provide a suit. More on our page about what to expect.
The private trip is the demanding one: Rise Adventures asks for medium to high fitness, with 30 to 60 minutes on snowshoes to the lake and up to two hours of walking without a path, and it is not suitable for people over 140 kg. GuideGunnar takes guests from 13 to 75 and spends about an hour and a half driving each way. The Ramfjord trip takes children from five and runs with five to fifteen guests. Best Kept Secret rates its Sjursnes trip at a medium activity level.
On the sea fjord with Skadi Adventures, the catch is cleaned and cooked at the base camp. GuideGunnar shows you how to fish and how to clean the fish, and lunch comes from the campfire. On the Ramfjord trip your catch is cooked over the fire, or you eat bidos, a Sami reindeer stew. Rise Adventures serves lunch at the lake; its reviewers mention trout and a fish stew. No trip promises a catch, so it is worth reading the meal as part of the day rather than as a reward for fishing well.
Sea fishing in Norway needs no licence, but fresh water is different. According to Visit Norway, fishing in lakes and rivers requires a licence. On the lake trips, ask the operator whether a licence is arranged for you before you go. The rules are summed up on our page about fishing rules for visitors.
Sources: Skadi Adventures (season), GuideGunnar on GetYourGuide (season), Visit Tromsø (temperatures and clothing), Visit Norway (licences).
Both reviews are from the private snowshoe trip with Rise Adventures, written after winter days on a mountain lake. The other ice fishing trips are new on GetYourGuide or listed only with Viator, so they have no reviews here.
“We had a great day with Jorgen snowshoeing and ice fishing! We managed to catch a trout and the kids had a great time learning how to fish. Jorgen can tailor this activity to suit your group (if it’s a private one you booked) […] We had a lovely camp fire and lunch in beautiful surroundings.”
“[…] We hiked up to a lake for about an hour, through light woodland next to a stream, in snowshoes to reach a lake which we walked across. We then learnt to drill holes with an auger, and each set up fishing lines which we then watched whilst having a picnic of fish stew and coffee. We caught 3 trout in total, which weighed up to 800g and in all, spent 9 hours out of Tromso. […]”
Reviews by guests after their trip, from GetYourGuide.
Roughly January to April, depending on the operator and the ice. Skadi Adventures fishes the sea fjord in Ullsfjord from 5 January to 31 March, and GuideGunnar runs lake trips from February to April.
The outer layer is provided on most trips: a thermal suit, and on several trips boots too. Underneath you need wool layers, a hat and mittens. GuideGunnar does not allow jeans or trainers, according to Visit Tromsø.
On some trips. The Ramfjord trip with Hello Tromsø takes children from five, and a reviewer of the private trip describes children learning to fish. GuideGunnar takes guests from 13. The private snowshoe trip needs medium to high fitness for the walk to the lake.
On the listed trips the catch is cooked and eaten during the day, at the base camp or over the fire. None of the ice fishing trips mentions taking fish home.
For fishing in lakes, Norway requires a licence, according to Visit Norway. On the sea fjord no licence is needed. Ask the operator of a lake trip whether it is included.