Pentäsjoki

DISCOVER PENTÄSJOKI RECREATION AREA.

PENTÄSJOKI STARTS AS SMALL TRICkles UP TO 400 METERS ABOVE SEA

in Aapuvaara, Karhuvaara (Bear Mountain), Laulumaa (The Singing Land) and Paljukka (The Bare Mountain). The streams excavate gravel pits for grayling and trout to spawn, meander slowly past hickory bogs and trandans, bordered by lichen-adorned mixed forests, and expand into wider seals and reservoirs, where large pike and perch rule and beavers and swans build huts and nests. Some of the streams are ice-free all year round, but in winter the water flows mostly quietly under the sometimes meter-thick ice and the otters have plenty of room to play sliding in the snow. In the spring, the stream attracts rafters when it adventurously and fiercely overflows all overflows, paving the way for summer.

FISHING LICENSE

Fishing rules

The trout is protected in the streams and must be released back. A maximum of 2 graylings per day and fishermen may be taken. The size of the greyhound must be 35 to 40 cm for it to be permitted to pick it up. Other species have no restrictions. Worms and shrimp are prohibited in the stream system and are only used in the lakes. The grayling only becomes mature when it reaches 35cm. Graylings over 40cm are valuable breeding fish and should therefore not be taken. Contact to the Pentäjoki Fisheries Management Association Bertil Isaksson at bertil.isaksson@sr.se