Elk Island Lodge on God's Lake

Anybody been there?

Cater to Fly Fishers or just tolerate them? Good boats/guides?

Am looking for honest reviews, email me if you prefer.

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BLUEWINGOLIVE

Went to their website, looks like a really nice place to get away from the usual, and experience something special.

I am sure they have their share of fly anglers, that go there.

Upper Manitoba, and you have to fly on a seaplane to get there! You can fish for Walleye, Pike, Lake Trout and Brook Trout. All on a fly rod!

I would suggest something in the 6 weight through 9 weight category, for fly rods.

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[This message has been edited by Steven H. McGarthwaite (edited 04 November 2005).]

Be aware that Manitoba?s Provincial Bird is the Mosquito
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Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints....

I've fished God's Lake about seven or eight years ago, but I couldn't tell you the name of the lodge now. With that much elapsed time and undoubted changes in management, any review I post would be a waste.

However, the fishing we had was fantastic-- for pike. We weren't able to do the brook trout thing because the alternate site had burned. Running out of the main lodge, we caught pike, lake trout, walleyes, and pike.

The guides were native and not sportsfishermen, so they tended to go where they'd caught fish in the past and fished the way they had in the past. We tended to spend a lot of time running to remote bays, which is OK as it's beautiful country. However, we also passed up a lot of fishy looking water...

The best fishing we had came after the day had ended and another guy and I took a boat to a bay near the lodge and caught pike on topwaters on virtually every cast. These weren't small fish, either. Most of them were in the eight to 10-pound category. I caught my largest pike, a 44-incher, and we caught a bunch over 36 inches.

I came prepared to fly fish for trout, but I wasn't prepared to fly fish for pike, so all of my experience there came on gear.

Keith