The short but beautiful arctic summer is a great time to visit Lapland. The fishing usually starts properly in mid June, sometimes 2-3 weeks earlier, depending when the ice melts. The season continues until October, when the lakes freeze again.
In Lapland, pike, perch and zander typically spawn in mid June, which also is a good time to start the season, as the the post-spawn fish are hungry and feeding. This is also a very good time to find big pikes in shallow waters. Also June is the time for the first big salmon run, and is when the biggest salmons of the year are usually caught.
July and August are good fishing time for all species, for zander and perch the best time during all year. In August there is also the second big run of salmons in the rivers.
In September the waters are getting cold and nature turns into beautiful fall colors. The bait fish and big pikes start to concentrate in deeper araes of the lakes and rivers. This starts a great season for pike fishing, with often some of the best days of the whole year. Meanwhile the salmon fishing season ends but the perch and zander seasons continue. Good fishing continues until the lakes freeze in mid October.