Fred Lockhart was the founder of Arctic Lodges and pioneered the first package tour into Canada's far north. After only a few years of operations, it was decided that in order to bring guests to this remote wilderness fishing lodge, an airstrip would be needed, and so the work began.
After much hard work, the airstrip was completed and today it allows us to provide charter service direct from Winnipeg, Manitoba to the lodge. It also provides access for pilots and private aircraft owners the opportunity of a lifetime to explore the wilds of northern Saskatchewan, and experience world-class trophy fishing for Northern Pike, Lake Trout, Arctic Grayling and Walleye.
The lodge has undergone many upgrades since it's creation, including a new main lodge, upgraded cabins with plumbing, central washroom facility, new boats and motors, all the while maintaining the rustic wilderness atmosphere that should be part of a fly in fishing trip to northern Saskatchewan, Canada.
LOCATION
Arctic Lodges is located on a secluded island in the middle of Reindeer Lake, approximately 750 miles north of the Canada/US border. Reindeer Lake stretches over 140 miles and had 92 tributaries. Over 5000 islands provide sheltered bays and more miles of shoreline to fish than any other lake in North America. Reindeer Lake is world renowned for it's trophy fishing for Pike, Lake Trout, Arctic Grayling and Walleye.
The south end of Reindeer Lake features a huge meteor crater seven miles in diameter and 700 feet deep, aptly named Deep Bay. Palaeontologists have established this blast occurred more than 65 million years ago. Natural erosion and waves have carved out a beautiful sand beach among the numerous cliffs that surround it's eastern shores.
On the south end of the airstrip there are still the remnants of a well constructed trappers cabin that harbors a haunting mystery of a murder/suicide. The ghosts of the trapper and his wife are, by native accounts, still hovering around this beautiful location.
Brochet and the Hudson Bay Fur Trading Company are located at the northeast end of Reindeer Lake. A visit to this settlement takes guests back to the 17th century. A two hundred year old Catholic Church stands as a reminder of the priests who followed the traders.
In a sheltered bay near the swift Swan River Rapids, the actual site of the old Northwest Fur Trading site is located. The route to this fur trading post is a scenic one with hundreds of islands and awesome cliffs plunging straight down into unexplored bays.
For more information on the history of Arctic Lodges and the trophy Pike and Lake Trout fishing on Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan, please call us at (306) 764 1400.
