Austria
Austrian Lakes & Rivers Fishing Map
Find your stretch of water. Explore the lakes and rivers, get to know the species and plan your next day by the water.
Lakes and riversAll 311 grounds on the map
01 / Discover the waters
Austrian Lakes & Rivers fishing spots 311
Choose a place, explore its details or go straight to its pin on the map.
A total of 311 grounds; the first 90 of them are below.
Matching grounds:
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Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler See (Winden am See)
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Burgenland · Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler See
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02 / Species
What can you catch in Austria’s lakes and rivers?
Meet the species recorded in these waters. Open a species for its techniques, bait and fishing grounds.
Matching species:
Common carp
Cyprinus carpio
European perch
Perca fluviatilis
Northern pike
Esox lucius
Brown trout
Salmo trutta
European chub
Squalius cephalus
Rainbow trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Rudd
Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Roach
Rutilus rutilus
Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Tench
Tinca tinca
Pikeperch
Sander lucioperca
Pumpkinseed
Lepomis gibbosus
Common bream
Abramis brama
Brook trout
Salvelinus fontinalis
Barbel
Barbus barbus
Grayling
Thymallus thymallus
Lake char
Salvelinus umbla
Common bleak
Alburnus alburnus
Grass carp
Ctenopharyngodon idella
Goldfish
Carassius auratus
Prussian carp
Carassius gibelio
Asp
Leuciscus aspius
Ruffe
Gymnocephalus cernua
Burbot
Lota lota
Round goby
Neogobius melanostomus
White bream
Blicca bjoerkna
Mairenke
Alburnus mento
Common dace
Leuciscus leuciscus
Vimba bream
Vimba vimba
Cactus roach
Rutilus virgo
Largemouth bass
Micropterus salmoides
Silver carp
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
Arctic char
Salvelinus alpinus
Volga pikeperch
Sander volgensis
White-eye bream
Ballerus sapa
Black bullhead
Ameiurus melas
Bighead carp
Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
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In season · October
Austrian Lakes & Rivers fishing calendar
Species with a productive season this month. Seasonal data is a guide, not a guarantee of a catch.
Species counts peak in Austria’s lakes and rivers in Aug, Jul, Sep — the strip shows how many species are productive in each month.
- 1 Jan
- 0 Feb
- 1 Mar
- 11 Apr
- 9 May
- 25 Jun
- 32 Jul
- 33 Aug
- 28 Sep
- 17 Oct
- 7 Nov
- 1 Dec
The height of the strip is the number of productive species in that month; it is not a guarantee of a catch. The turquoise column is the current month.
What is caught in Austria’s lakes and rivers month by month
For each month, the species in season — the most seasonal ones first.
- Jan
- Burbot
- Feb
- No records
- Mar
- Arctic char
- Apr
- Lake char, Brown trout, Brook trout, Rainbow trout, Common bream, Common bleak and 5 more species
- May
- Lake char, Brown trout, Brook trout, Rainbow trout, Common bleak, Goldfish and 3 more species
- Jun
- Pumpkinseed, Lake char, Bighead carp, European chub, Rudd, Grass carp and 19 more species
- Jul
- Wels catfish, Tench, Common carp, Pumpkinseed, Barbel, Bighead carp and 26 more species
- Aug
- Wels catfish, Tench, Common carp, Pumpkinseed, Barbel, Bighead carp and 27 more species
- Sep
- Volga pikeperch, Common carp, Barbel, European perch, European chub, Rudd and 22 more species
- Oct
- Volga pikeperch, European perch, Asp, Common dace, Cactus roach, White-eye bream and 11 more species
- Nov
- Burbot, Cactus roach, Grayling, Northern pike, Pikeperch, Arctic char and 1 more species
- Dec
- Burbot
What bites in Austria’s lakes and rivers this month
Ranked by this month’s research score at the lake and river spots of this region.
Good
- Pikeperch
- Grayling
- Roach
- Northern pike
- Volga pikeperch
- Largemouth bass
- Asp
- Ide
- European perch
- Common bream
+26 more species
Weak
A 0–100 score from season, water temperature, habitat and local records; a general trend, not a guarantee.
Frequently asked
What can you catch in Austria’s lakes and rivers?
37 species are on record in Austria’s lakes and rivers: Common carp, European perch, Northern pike, Brown trout, European chub, Rainbow trout, Rudd, Roach and others.
What can you catch in Austria’s lakes and rivers in each month?
The month with the most species in season is August (33 species). By season: winter: Burbot; spring: Lake char and Brown trout; summer: Pumpkinseed and Bighead carp; autumn: Volga pikeperch and European perch.
How many fishing grounds are there in Austria’s lakes and rivers?
There are 311 fishing grounds on record in Austria’s lakes and rivers; each has its own page with the location, the species caught and the conditions that suit it.
