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Best landlocked salmon lakes in Sweden

9 Sweden waters hold landlocked salmon. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. Lake-dwelling Atlantic salmon that lives and dies by the smelt run. Ice-out surface fishing at its finest.

1. Vänern — 348 ft max · Zander, Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout
2. Vättern — 420 ft max · Zander, Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout
3. Mellan-Fryken — 443 ft max · Zander, Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout
4. Östra Silen — 161 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Landlocked Salmon, Lake Whitefish
5. Yxningen — 246 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Landlocked Salmon
6. Torrvarpen — 213 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Landlocked Salmon
7. Visten — 112 ft max · Zander, Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout
8. Ånimmen — 121 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Landlocked Salmon
9. Nedre Fryken — 72 ft max · Zander, Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout

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When to fish landlocked salmon in Sweden

• Spring 1–15 ft — The legendary ice-out bite: salmon follow spawning smelt to tributary mouths and windblown shorelines, right on the surface.
• Summer 25–60 ft — Salmon hold just above the thermocline with the smelt schools — depth control decides the day.
• Fall 5–30 ft — Turnover scatters bait and salmon shallow; spawners stage off tributary mouths, hot-tempered and territorial.
• Winter 10–40 ft — Where winter seasons allow, salmon cruise for smelt under the ice — sewn bait near a drop is the classic set.

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