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The atlas is a set of complete guides to real waters: the fish you can catch and when, the licence and the rules, where to fish from the bank or a boat, and the exact rigs and knots to do it. 50 waters are live, across Europe, North America, Japan and Australia, and every one is written in full.

Waters in the atlas

50 waters, region by region

Europe

20 waters
France · Savoie

Lac du Bourget

Perch, zander, pike and lavaret
Portugal · Alentejo

Alqueva Reservoir

Largemouth bass, zander, pike, carp and wels catfish
England · Somerset

Chew Valley Lake

Big pike, rainbow and brown trout, perch and roach
Hungary · Budapest & the Soroksár branch

Danube near Budapest

Wels catfish, zander and asp
Spain · Aragón & Catalonia

Ebro River (Mequinenza / Caspe)

Wels catfish, carp and zander
Netherlands · Friesland & Noord-Holland

IJsselmeer

Zander, pike and big perch
Hungary · Transdanubia

Lake Balaton

Fogas (pike-perch), carp, pike and wels catfish
Germany / Austria / Switzerland · Bodensee

Lake Constance (Bodensee)

Perch, pike, lake trout and Arctic char
Switzerland & France · Vaud, Geneva & Haute-Savoie

Lake Geneva (Lac Léman)

Perch, féra, Arctic char, lake trout, pike and zander
Italy · Piedmont / Lombardy

Lake Maggiore

Perch, pike, pike-perch, char, lake trout and whitefish
Finland · South Savo & South Karelia

Lake Saimaa

Pike, zander and perch, with burbot through the ice
Sweden · Västra Götaland & Värmland

Lake Vänern

Landlocked salmon, lake trout, pike, zander and perch
Scotland · Loch Lomond & The Trossachs

Loch Lomond

Pike, perch, brown trout, salmon and sea trout
Ireland · County Galway

Lough Corrib

Wild brown trout, pike, perch and salmon
Germany · Mecklenburg Lake District

Müritz

Pike, zander, perch and eel
Italy · Veneto / Emilia-Romagna

Po Delta

Wels catfish, sea bass, gilthead bream and mullet
England and Wales · Welsh Marches

River Wye

Barbel, chub, pike, grayling, trout and salmon
Slovenia · Soča Valley

Soča River

Marble trout, grayling, rainbow and brown trout
Norway · Finnmark

Sørøya

Cod (and Skrei), Atlantic halibut and coalfish
Iceland · Þingvellir National Park

Þingvallavatn

Trophy brown trout and Arctic char

Every guide is written the same way. A place only joins the atlas when its guide is complete: the licence checked, the seasons dated, the access points named and the rigs worked out, with the sources linked next to every figure. The atlas keeps growing, and each new pin is a guide you can actually act on.

What's in every guide

The promise the atlas keeps

The whole trip in one place

The fish and when, the licence and the rules, where to fish, bank versus boat, the rigs, the knots and the kit, all on one guide. You don't open eleven tabs.

A short, shared shopping list, built to your trip

Each water names the rigs that cover it, chosen so they reuse tackle, and the kit builder trims the list to the fish and methods you pick.

A printable cheat sheet

One page per water, folded into the tackle box: what's on by month, the licence line, bank or boat, the rigs and the knots. Read it on your phone at the shop and on paper at the water.

Dated, sourced, and straight about the hard parts

Every licence price and season carries the date it was checked and a link to the official source, and the guide says plainly when a water fishes poorly or you'll want a boat.

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