Fishing on Lake Altaussee

License conditions:

• The exercise of sport fishing at Lake Altaussee is only possible with a valid fishing license. The legal prerequisite for acquiring a fishing license is possession of a fishing booklet or a guest fishing card from the state of Styria.
  
• Children accompanied and youths may fish exclusively from the shore at the specified prices. Violations and abuse will result in the revocation of the license. The fishing association Altaussee pays 0.07 euros per delivered perch for youths and children up to the age of 16 fishing for perch.
• Fish stock: Char, lake trout, perch, whitefish, eels, bullheads, and minnows.
• The fishing card entitles you to fish with trolling gear or a fishing rod with only one line or a single hook. Only barbless hooks may be used.
• Allowed bait: Natural bait, simple spoons, wet and dry flies with barbless hooks. Treble hooks are only permitted on spoons. If bait fish are used, only those from Lake Altaussee are allowed. Foreign fish must not enter the lake.
• All artificial lures are prohibited, especially wobblers, twisters, paternosters, spinning lures, as well as all systems. The use of fish finders, as well as jigs or dips and any form of bait is strictly prohibited. Violation will result in the immediate permanent revocation of the license and a fine of 75 euros.
• A maximum of three pieces of legal-sized noble fish (chars over 35 cm and trout over 50 cm) may be kept per day. The resale of the catch is strictly prohibited. Once the daily catch limit is reached, fishing for noble fish must cease. Fishing for whitefish and perch may continue.
• Sport fishing must be conducted in a sustainable manner. Artificial lures, especially wobblers, twisters, paternosters, spinning lures, as well as all systems are prohibited.
• Under-sized noble fish (chars under 35 cm and trouts under 50 cm) must be gently released from the hook and immediately returned to the lake. If a return of an undersized noble fish is not possible due to serious injury, it must be killed sustainably. Perch must be killed in every case.
• The fishing license entitles you exclusively to fish in Lake Altaussee - not for fishing in all streams and the Traun.
• The following restricted areas must be observed:
  The lake constraint between the flushing barrier and the Lake Klaus Bridge year-round.
• Sport fishermen are required to carry their fishing licenses. The control bodies of the fishing association, identifiable by the oval badge of the state of Styria, or in possession of a power of attorney from the fishing association and the authorities of the executive are to be complied with. Upon request, the valid license must be presented. The used fishing gear, vehicles, boats, backpacks, and other containers must be controlled without objection.
• A minimum distance of 50 meters must be maintained from the fishing gear set by professional fishing marked by floats. Any damage caused must be reported immediately and compensated.
• Non-compliance or violation of the regulations entails, regardless of other administrative or criminal consequences, a fine of 75 euros payable to the fishing association Altaussee, the confiscation and revocation of the fishing license, as well as an indefinite fishing water ban.