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The regulations of amateur fishing 

Places where you can buy fishing licenses

  



   

The regulations of amateur fishing 

  

The regulations of amateur fishing 

in selected water bodies of Wigry National Park

 

 

1. Amateur fishing in Wigry National Park is allowed only with a fishing rod.

2. Spear fishing and using spear-guns is forbidden

3. Fishing is allowed on lakes: Wigry, Pierty, Leszczewek, Omułówek, Czarne near Bryzgiel, Czarne near Gawrych Ruda, Mulaczysko, Postaw and Czarna Hańcza river, within the park’s borders, between the villages of Czerwony Folwark and Studziany Las, on the basis of a bought license.

4. Fishing fee is waived for young people under 14, who can fish within their own fishery and day limit, but only under supervision of a person who owns the fishing license.

5. Fishing and boating is allowed only during daytime, that is from sunrise to sunset according to calendar.

6. Fishing from boat is allowed from May 1st to October 31st, and can be done only from a boat registered in accordance with the existing legal regulations and according to the safety standards for Inland Navigation.

7. Angling from shore is allowed only in places with no growing reeds.

8. Fishing from boat or from shore is allowed only with two regular fishing rods or a spinning rod on terms determined in point 12 of the regulations. During winter ice fishing is allowed with two rods with a float. Ice fishing with artificial bait is allowed only with one fishing rod.

9. It is forbidden to posses  or use any kind of groundbait.

10. Fishing with the use of a living or dead fish as a bait is forbidden all year long.

11. Fishing european catfish  (Silurus glanis), common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus), lake trout (Salmo trutta m. lacustris) and brown trout (Salmo trutta m. fario) is forbidden all year round.

12. Fishing pike and spinning (without trolling) is allowed only on lakes Wigry and Pierty from May  1st  to September  30st. On other water bodies fishing pike, trolling and spinning is forbidden.

13.  Fishing on Czarna Hańcza river is allowed below lake Wigry within the borders of the park. On a stretch from Wysoki Most to the park’s border in Studziany Las only using a float,  fly lure and plant lures is allowed.

14. Minimal sizes of fish:

•    roach – 15 cm

•    perch – 15 cm.

•    bream – 25 cm.

•    eel – 50 cm.

•    pike – 55 cm.

•    other species according to regulations of amateur fishing of Polish Angling Association

15. Quantity limits per day (00:00-24:00)

•   pike - 1 fish per day

•   eel, tench, zander, grayling, asp  – 2 fish per day

•   bream - 10 fish per day, but no more than 10 kg

•   chub  - 1 fish per day

16. It is allowed to take up to 5 kg of fish species do not mentioned above per day.

17. The limits do not apply to amur, silver carp, prussian carp, rainbow trout and brook trout.

18. It is required to register all the fish taken from fishery. The fishing registry is an integral part of a fishing license and it should be filled in accordance with the provided  instruction.

19. Other issues concerning fishing in Wigry National Park not stated in those regulations are determined by regulations of the Inland Fishing Act.

20. Violation of the above regulations results in loss of license without compensation and sanctions determined by the law.

21. Staying in the area on Wigry National Park one must obey the rules listed in Director’s order concerning availability of Wigry National Park’s area for touristic, scientific, recreational and sports purposes.

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Where you can buy fishing licenses

  

Places where you can buy fishing licenses:

  • Wigry National Park's headquarters (Krzywe 82),

  • Wigry Museum (Stary Folwark 50),

  • fishing shops in Suwalki,

  • online: https://wpn.eparki.pl/
     

  

 

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