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OUR MAIN BASE
We have built our Lodge “
way out beyond the highways”, accessible only by float-equipped aircraft.
The main lodge is built of logs hewn on the spot. Separate guest cabins
are built of log-sheeting, and are line
and insulated. The guest units are served daily, (under our American Plan)
are spotlessly clean and are equipped with comfortable beds, clean white
linen, warm woolen blankets, towels, propane cooking stoves, wood heaters,
refrigerators, hot and cold running water with flush toilets and showers, and 24 hour a
day electricity supplied by our own AC generating plant, (plus cooking and
eating utensils under our Canadian Plan). We also have new satellite
internet for your convenience.
With your interests in
mind, we operate an All-Inclusive Hunting Plan, and our
Canadian Plan.
EXCELLENT MARINE EQUIPMENT
You may be assured of safe,
pleasant, comfortable hours on the water in our extra-roomy 16 foot boats,
powered by reliable electric start 15 h.p. Honda motors. Our equipment is renewed
regularly and kept in top condition.
FLYING SPORTSMEN
If you wish to fly
commercially to Red Lake, contact us and we can arrange your flights
through Red Lake Travel Service. You can also fly your private plane into
the Red Lake airport, (5,000ft. paved strip) then take a taxi to the
seaplane base and board a float plane for the flight into camp.
In 2010, a guests at
Sportsman’s Lodge caught a Northern Pike weighing over 30 pounds (51
inches) - for a total of EIGHTY ONE (82) PIKE IN THE 30 TO 40LB.
(OVER 50 INCHS) class caught by guests since opening our small lodge on
fabulous Little Vermilion Lake - earning this lake the distinction of
being considered THE TROPHY NORTHERN PIKE CAPITAL OF NORTH AMERICA! The
record of this lake is indeed phenomenal!
Little Vermilion Lake is a
remote, fly-in lake, 18 air miles north from the end of the highways at
the town of Red Lake, in northwestern Ontario. There is only one lodge on
this lake, with an intentionally limited capacity, only accommodating
upwards to four hundred guests each season.
Little Vermilion Lake is
considered a phenomena, and possibly the best trophy pike lake in Ontario,
Canada, or the world!
If you dream of catching a
trophy Northern Pike, your choice is simple - go where the odds are best -
try sportsman’s Lodge for your best chance of realizing you dream.
Approximately 74% of the guests at Sportsman’s Lodge have caught the
largest pike in their lives while fishing Little Vermilion Lake! And the
Walleye fishing is also excellent spring, summer and fall Little Vermilion
lake may be considered small and shallow by some standards - just under
14,000 acres ( not counting two smaller lakes reached without a portage)
with a mean depth of approximately 11 feet, and a maximum depth of
approximately 28 feet.
However, this dark water
lake with a magnificent variety of shorelines, many rock, gravel and sand
bars, an abundance of lush aquatic vegetation, numerous drainage creeks,
over 100 miles of shoreline, with over 40 island and nicely broken up by
narrows throughout, is definitely ideal Northern and Walleye habitat! With
an abundance of lesser species of feed fish the game fish in this lake
seem to have an outstanding reproduction and growth rate! With its
relatively constant bottom structure there are not the large deep sections
that make it difficult to locate fish during the warmer months of July and
August - providing very productive fishing waters throughout the entire
season.
Fishing Season
Fishing Seasons & limits
(click
here for the MNR Fishing Regulations)
Northern Pike
- limit 4 - no closed season
- Only one of these may exceed 35.4 inches
- None between 27.5 and 35.4 may be taken
- Our Policy - No Kill over 35.5”
Walleye
- limit 4 - Opens 3rd Saturday in May
- Only one of these may exceed 18.1 inches
Trout
- limit 2 - January 1 to September 30
Fishing Licenses (Quoted
in Canadian Funds)
8 day Non-resident - $44.50
Annual Non-resident - $69.50
Annual Conservation Non-resident - $42.75
8-day conservation Non-resident - $25.75
- All above licenses include Lake
Trout & Muskie
- Prices include H.S.T. Tax.
Deposits
We require a deposit of
$200.00 per person for fishing to hold reservations. Tentative
reservations must be confirmed with deposits within three (3) weeks from
date of request for booking. Deposits are transferable, but not refundable
except at our discretion that circumstances warrant their return, and only
when we receive a 90 days advance notice of cancellation.
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