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Giving Thanks

Nov 21, 2018

November 2018 Giving Thanks While you gather with friends, family and football to kickoff this holiday season, we want to pass on our best wishes to you and yours. Know that what we are most thankful for is you! Thank you for joining our adventures, thank you for the...

The Last Week Fishing Report at Scott Lake Lodge

Sep 18, 2018

IT’S A WRAP The 2018 season closed like it began: sunny skies and plenty of fish, including a dramatic “fight of the season” when Kevin Morse, casting with spinning gear to a rocky shoreline, hooked a huge trout in just two feet of water. After twenty...

The Scott Lake Lodge Week 18 Fishing Report

Sep 6, 2018

FULL ON FALL Our 18th and second last group of the season meet fall head on. Since most of the crew had been up the same week in prior years, they knew what to expect—some cool temperatures, some spectacularly painted landscapes with the birch in full...

Fall’s Arrival & The Week 17 Scott Lake Lodge Fishing Report

Aug 31, 2018

FALL, SETTLING IN When the 17th group of the 2018 season landed at Scott Lake Lodge, exactly an hour after their chartered plane from Saskatoon landed at the float base at Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan, many, hailing from distant and warm places, were...

Late Season Update

Aug 29, 2018

Usually, the seasons merge seamlessly at Scott Lake Lodge. A few birch leaves start to turn yellow, the ground cover starts to turn red and the temperatures gradually start to drop. For the 2018 season that transition happened in a single day—the third day of our...

The Week 16 Scott Lake Lodge Fishing Report

Aug 26, 2018

DOG DAYS OF AUGUST? NOT! At many lodges throughout the northern US and Canada, August is the time to go swimming, have a picnic, play shuffleboard, take a canoe paddle or just sit at the bar. August doesn’t have a good reputation for fishing. Unless you...

The 15th Week Fishing Report at Scott Lake Lodge

Aug 21, 2018

THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES What a pleasant week at Scott Lake Lodge. It’s early fall, a wonderful time to be in the far north. While we had, (again) stronger winds than we would have liked for easy boat travel, we still had great fishing. It was another week...