In conjunction with our partner Big Fish Adventure, we’re excited to offer our new luxury, all-inclusive sea fishing package to the world-famous island of Soroya. New for 2025, this fully guided trip is exclusive to Sportquest Holidays. It offers travelling anglers the chance to fish the fish-rich waters of Northern Norway for a whole host of species to record-breaking sizes. The trip utilises the best guides, top-of-the-range boats, and deluxe apartments and is tailored to those looking for the best.
With the range of first-class amenities on offer, ensuring we have the very best fishing to match would only be correct, which is precisely what we have done. The island of Soroya, where our camp is based, is one of Norway’s most famous sea fishing destinations. Primarily famed for its winter Skrei Cod fishing, it produces more Cod over 60lb each year than anywhere in the world. However, it’s also an incredible all-year-round destination for giant Halibut, which grow to sizes of well over 2m in length, colossal Coalfish, dustbin lid-sized Plaice and deep water Wolffish and Redfish.
Throughout the years, our previous trips to the island have rewarded hundreds of anglers with new PBs, and it surely will be soon that one of our customers returns home with a new world record. The question is, could it be you?
Soroya is famous for three main species: Cod, Halibut and Coalfish. However, many other species are also on offer, including Haddock, Wolffish, Dabs and Plaice, all of which grow to epic proportions.
Resident Cod can be caught all year round, with fish between 10lb and 40lb common, with even bigger specimens landed every season, especially during the Skrei Cod run. When targeting these, we recommend looking for fish-holding features such as underwater pinnacles with deep areas on either side. All fishing gets done on the drift, and the primary tactic is to use a large rubber shad, something like a Savage Gear Cut Bait Herring, lowered to the bottom and then fished a few turns off it.
Halibut fishing* has been excellent, and more fish are landed every season. Once again, shads and spin fishing are fantastic tactics for these famous giant flatfish, but so is dead baiting. A popular method is a medium-sized Coalfish or Mackerel dead bait fished on an anti-twist lead.
From April onwards, good numbers of Coalfish begin to appear, with specimens of over 20lb not unusual. These are generally willing to smash anything presented to them. In the right conditions, they can also get caught in the upper layers and even on surface poppers, providing some fantastic action.
Close to the camp, many of the intimate bays offer anglers the chance to target Plaice and Dabs. These are best targeted using flowing traces or flapper rigs with smaller hooks, baited with frozen prawns.
The time of year you visit will dictate what you can catch, so it’s worth chatting with one of our team to give them an understanding of what you’d like from the fishing, and they can secure the best week for you.
*Please note that, by Norwegian law, you’re not allowed to intentionally target and catch Halibut until the 1st of April each year.
As this package is the ‘Ultimate’ sea fishing trip, no stone has been left unturned, regarding offering everything to the highest standards. We’ve already mentioned the first-class fishing, but what else is included?
The trip involves six days of fishing on the camp’s luxury flagship guide boat, the Apex. It includes rods and reels, and floatation suits, plus one experienced English-speaking guide who will drive the boat and guide you to the fish. Accommodation is in the camp’s first-class cabins, the BFA resort, and the chef cooks three meals per day and serves breakfast and dinner at the restaurant, while lunch is taken on the boat.
If you wish to bring some fish back each day, the guides will fillet, pack and freeze them for you, ready for you to take when you depart home. You’re allowed 18kg of frozen fillets per person. The package also includes final boat cleaning, meaning on the last day, you don’t have to wash down the boats; it gets done for you.
At Sportquest, as we always like to offer you, our customers a range of options and the chance to tailor your trip, and this is no exception. A whole host of extras are available, including more fishing days and/or a longer itinerary with rest days in between. It’s also possible for us to arrange private helicopter transfers. For the full list of options, please contact a member of our team.
If you’ve always dreamt of fishing on the famous island of Soroya in northern Noway, as well as our Luxury All-inclusive weeks, we also offer two others. One is fishing for the Skrei Cod during the early part of the season, and the other is our standard trip. You can see more details about each of them by clicking the links below:
At our Big Fish Adventure resort, they have some of the best fishing boats in Norway, including their flagship guide vessel, the ‘Apex’. The Apex boat is the camp’s all-singing, all-dancing guide boat and is available as standard for this package. However, there is nothing standard about it, as it features some of the most modern technology in the fishing and motorboating industry.
It features a 37-foot hull and two Yamaha 425 XTO engines with 850 HP capacity, making it an absolute dream to navigate the waters around the island. In addition to the engines, the ship also features the new Yamaha Helm Master, which is a dream when docking and fishing.
As you’d expect, no expense has been spared with the electronics. It features a triple installation with 8416xsv GPSmap chart plotters in the dash and one 10-inch screen in the front, along with B175HW transducers and L + Panoptix Livescope. A small cabin with a toilet, fridge, and heating adds a real touch of luxury.
This guide boat is truly a ‘one of a kind’ and can accommodate larger group sizes; it’s also fully guided by one of the camp’s professional guides. During specific periods of the year or on request, it’s also possible to have an extra guide onboard, creating an even more personalised experience.
Keeping in line with the luxury theme, the accommodation for this trip is the camp’s deluxe apartments, which are undoubtedly some of the finest you will find in Norway. Each house features two floors with 86 square meters and six beds distributed over three bedrooms. On the first floor, you have two bedrooms, a bathroom with a sauna and a washing and drying room. The first floor also has a terrace where you can sit and enjoy the stunning views.
Upstairs, there’s an open kitchen and living room with full glass frontage, offering a jaw-dropping view across the fjord. There’s also a large balcony, the perfect spot to enjoy your morning coffee. The kitchen has a cooker, dishwasher, fridge with a small freezer, coffee machine, microwave, etc. There is also a bathroom and a bedroom on the second floor.
One fantastic feature of these accommodations is that they are just metres from the boats.
As this is an all-inclusive package, all food is supplied throughout the trip. A hearty breakfast is served each morning in the restaurant, ensuring you are fuelled and ready for a day on the water. Lunches are made and served on the boat, and then when you return home from fishing, a three to five course evening meal is prepared and served in the restaurant. This trip also includes afternoon tea and cake.
The below itinerary is flexible should you wish to lengthen or shorten your trip with additional or fewer fishing days; we can tailor the below itinerary to suit you personally. Feel free to talk to our travel consultants who can explain all options available.
Depart Any international Airport (See Details)
Arrive Oslo Depart Oslo
Arrive Tromso Depart Tromso
Arrive Hasvik
Once you have picked up your luggage and cleared customs, you will make your way outside of the terminal where there will be a representative from Big Fish Adventures waiting to transfer you and the group to your accommodation. You are then free to unpack and get your fishing tackle ready for your very first days fishing. If you’ve hired any equipment, this can be arranged when you have arrived. (Time dependant.)
Overnight accommodation: Luxury Sørøya Cabins (Twin rooms) F/B
Over the next 6 days of fishing, you will be fishing from the camps luxury guide boat, the ‘Apex’. You will be free to fish for whatever you wish, whether you want to fill your fish boxes with Cod, or sit it out and wait for a huge Halibut. Simply speak to your guide each morning and let him know what you’d like to try and achieve from the fishing day. A guided fishing day is eight hours.
Each morning before you head out fishing you’ll enjoy a cooked breakfast, while lunch will be taken on the boat and an wholesome evening meal will be served at the restaurant at the end of your fishing day.
Overnight accommodation: Luxury Sørøya Cabins (Twin rooms) F/B
Throughout your fishing week you’ll have the services of an experienced, English speaking guide. All the guides at the camp are experts at fishing in and around the island and will do there absolute best to guide you to fish fish each and every day. A guided fishing day is eight hours.
Overnight accommodation: Luxury Sørøya Cabins (Twin rooms) F/B
In the morning you will check out of your cabin and then be transferred back to Hasvik airport for your return flight.
Depart Hasvik
Arrive Tromso Depart Tromso
Arrive Oslo Depart Oslo
Arrive Home
The season runs from March to October.
Season: March to September
Peak: March & April
Weight: 5lb to 65lb
Average Weight: 20lb
Season: March & April
Peak: March & April
Weight: 15lb to 104lb
Average Weight: 35lb
Season: May to September
Peak: July to September
Weight: 20lb to 450lb
Average Weight: 80lb
Season: May to September
Peak: September
Weight: 1lb to 10lb
Average Weight: 4lb
Season: May to September
Peak: July
Weight: 2lb to 45lb
Average Weight: 10lb
Season: April to September
Peak: September
Weight: 1lb to 18lb
Average Weight: 5lb
Season: May to September
Peak: July & August
Weight: 1lb to 12lb
Average Weight: 4lb
If you’re group size is smaller than the standard four, please contact a member of our team.
Remember that Sportquest Holidays' services are completely FREE! When you book a trip with Sportquest Holidays, you never pay more than when you book directly with the lodge and flights independently.
| From | To | Duration | Price | Availability |
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| 01/07/2024 | 31/07/2024 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/08/2024 | 31/08/2024 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/09/2024 | 30/09/2024 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/10/2024 | 31/10/2024 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/04/2025 | 30/04/2025 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/05/2025 | 31/05/2025 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/06/2025 | 30/06/2025 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/07/2025 | 31/07/2025 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/08/2025 | 31/08/2025 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/09/2025 | 30/09/2025 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
| 01/10/2025 | 31/10/2025 | 8 | £6,379 | Enquire Now |
Prices are based on four adults sharing transfers, Fully Guided APEX boat for fishing and Full board at the BFA Resort for accommodation (unless otherwise stated) and are correct at the time of going to press. Subject to time of year or date and currency fluctuations, these prices may fluctuate slightly due to flight price increases or fuel surcharge.
Fishing out this world people running big fish adventures spot on on very helpful and there if needed
Hello Iain thank you for taking the time to send us your feedback. Soroya is a true big fish destination offering some of the best cod fishing in Norway. They kept us informed on how you were getting on and by the sounds of it, it went very well
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Paul
A fantastic week from start to finish, with the best sea fishing I've ever experienced!
Super experience for my son and myself.
Had a great time and this will be an annual event for us.
Hi Rene
Many thanks for your excellent feed back Rene.
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Matt
We were exceptionally proud to be involved with the Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing Christmas Special to Norway in 2022. Being the first time the programme had ventured outside the UK, it took a tremendous amount of work to produce the itinerary and cater for the thirteen-strong production team, but it was a fantastic couple of weeks away. If you enjoyed the programme, here is more information on Paul and Bob's trip and the itinerary it followed.
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