Welcome to the European Flyfishing Championship 2004 and the World Flyfishing Championship 2005
The Swedish Sportfishing Federation and the EU-financed Project Lapland Fishing, are proud to welcome flyfishing teams to the following FIPS-Mouche competitions:
- The European Flyfishing Championship 2004
- The World Fl-fishing Championship 2005

During those competitions we will select new exciting waters, so even the teams that has visited us during EFFC 1998 and WFFC 2001 will find new challenges. All the teams can expect a perfectly organised competition in superb fly-fishing waters at a low price level, that won´t stop any team from joining. More information will come in august/september.

Breakthrough for international fishing tourism in Lapland
The products that are shown on the Lapland Fishing website, has (after only 2 years of international marketing) shown a fantastic development. The main reason for this success is the familiar, friendly and professional staff at Kultsjön, Ammarnäs, Granselegarden and Gafsele. Those small scale companies are a bright shining example of a new entrepreneurship in this region, working with natural resources in an ecological way, showing new ways to adapt and survive in a region that has suffered hard from depopulation and loss of employment from traditional industries like forestry and mining.

The small village Gafsele has become "Little Paris" in the Åsele municipality with a number of French pikefishermen, many of them breaking new personal records. The guests that visited Gafsele in the beginning of June could not believe there eyes, catching more than 50 pike per person and day, with the biggest reaching 12 kg. Local fishing rules say that pike over 3 kg must be released so they are still there, waiting for new tourists.

Granselegården, owned by the Italian Marino Rota, is fully booked this summer, mostly by Italians that comes for fly-fishing and pikefishing. For next year he need more cabins or a cooperation with other camps to be able to host all the clients.

Staff from Ammarnäs and Kultsjön visited a fair in Paris this year and experienced great interest among French flyfishermen, who wants to flyfish in a wild surrounding for wild trout.