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Active leisure

SUP board rental and water mat

We offer 8 Jobe SUP boards for rent. Price: 30 min – €5.00 | 1 hour – €10.00 | 2 hours – €15.00 + €5.00 for each additional hour | 24 hours – €25.00. More info about SUP boards here: http://www.supgarage.eu/product-category/sup-deli/

For children’s fun – floating water mat and various inflatable water attractions. Price: 1 hour €2.50 per child | Day pass €5.00 per child

For anglers

Boat rental

8 rowing boats (Pellas) available. You can use your own petrol engine (up to 5 HP) or electric motor. Boats include life vests, anchors, oars, and a water bailer.

  • Boat rental per day €10.00 (~10 h)
  • Boat rental per hour €3.00
What do you need to fish in Burtnieks?

Licenses for Lake Burtnieks are ONLY AVAILABLE IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT AND CAN BE PURCHASED www.manacope.lv

  • May fishing license (24h, from a boat): €6.00
  • 24-hour fishing license: €3.00
  • Monthly license (except May): €15.00
  • Latvian fishing card is available (www.makskeresanaskarte.lv)
Main rules for fishing in Burtnieks:
  • Each angler may keep up to 3 pike and 3 zander per 24h
  • Zander may be caught and kept starting June 1
  • From March 1 to April 30, fishing from boats is prohibited
  • From May 1 to June 15, trolling from boats with internal combustion or electric motors is prohibited (moving around the lake is allowed!)
  • From May 1 to June 15, fishing is not allowed in areas marked with orange buoys

Head out for great fishing in Latvia’s fourth largest lake!

The best fishing in Lake Burtnieks is early in the morning or late in the evening. The lake is popular among pike spinners and zander trollers. However, over 20 different fish species live here – perch, eels, bream, roach, rudd, tench, crucian carp, silver carp, chub, ide, burbot, gudgeon, and others.

Older generation fishermen say that it used to be common to catch a 16 kg bream. In even earlier times, noblemen who owned all fishing rights used to send them as gifts to Russian and German emperors.

In 1997, the largest pike caught in Lake Burtnieks weighed 14 kg. Legends speak of Burtnieks’ legendary “Green Skirt” – considered Latvia’s record pike, said to be over 2 meters long. No one has caught it yet, only fought it. Maybe YOU will be lucky?

Burtnieks stretches 13.5 km in length, with a width of up to 5.5 km. The average depth is 2.4 m, max depth 4.3 m. 23 rivers flow into the lake, but only one flows out – the 95 km long Salaca River, which flows into the Gulf of Riga. The lake has three small islands totaling 1.4 ha, the largest being Enksāre and Cepurīte.

Since 2012, the lake has been managed by the Burtnieki municipality, with increased focus on ecological processes and human impact. Licensed fishing is organized in Lake Burtnieks.