A fly-in lodge on 61,000 acres of trophy water at the edge of the 60th parallel. Twelve boats. Four guides. No other camp on the lake.
Tamarack sits in the granite and jack pine country of far northeastern Saskatchewan, closer to the Northwest Territories border than to any town. There is no road in. That is the whole point.
The lodge is a single main building and six guest cabins on a south-facing point, built from timber flown in over three winters. Everything you need is inside a hundred metres of the dock: dining room, tackle bench, drying room, sauna, and a fire pit that stays lit most evenings until the light finally goes at eleven.
Because we are the only camp on the water, the fishing pressure is whatever we choose it to be. We run twelve boats maximum and rest bays through the season. A reef that gave up four big trout on Tuesday gets left alone until the following week.
Cabins are simple and warm — two twin beds, a private washroom, hot water, and a propane heater for the cold mornings that arrive in late August. Meals are cooked fresh and served family style, and the shore lunch on the rocks is the meal most guests still talk about a year later.
Four guides, most of them here for a decade or more. They know which bay turns on with a north wind and which reef is worth the run when the barometer drops. You fish two anglers to a boat — never three.
Grew up on the Fond-du-Lac river system. Reads shallow water better than anyone here and has put more 45-inch pike in the net than he will admit to.
Spends his winters building rods and his summers finding structure. If there is a saddle at 60 feet holding fish, Ray already has it marked and has not told anyone.
Runs the river mouths and the fly programme. Patient with new casters and genuinely delighted every time a grayling comes up — which, in July, is most of the day.
Cooks the best shore lunch on the lake and takes most of our first-time fly-in guests. Nobody leaves his boat unsure of how to set a hook.
Everything here is catch and release on barbless hooks, apart from the fish that go into the pan at noon. It is the only reason a lake this size still produces the numbers it does.
The reason most people come. Shallow weed bays warm first in late June and hold fish that have never seen a lure. Big-fish season runs the front and back ends of the summer.
Cold, deep and structurally spoiled. Early season they are shallow enough to take a surface lure; by August they sit on reefs and saddles and Ray finds them anyway.
The quiet highlight. Six creek mouths hold them from late June, and on a warm afternoon with a dry fly it is close to continuous. Bring a 4 wt if you own one.
The guides log anything over the trophy mark before it goes back in the water. This is the last two weeks, unedited.
Per angler, in Canadian dollars, for the 2027 season. Everything below is what you actually pay us — the list of what is not included is right underneath.
Saskatchewan non-resident fishing licence (approximately $85, purchased online before you travel) · flights to and from Saskatoon · alcohol, which you are welcome to bring · gratuities for guides and lodge staff · trip cancellation insurance, which we strongly recommend for a fly-in trip.
If something here is still unclear, phone the lodge — we would rather answer it now than have you wondering at the dock.
It happens most seasons, usually for a few hours rather than a day. If the float plane cannot fly on your arrival day, we hold your room at Points North at our cost and fly you in as soon as the ceiling lifts. If a weather delay shortens your trip by a full day, we credit that day against a future booking. Nobody pays for a day they did not fish.
Rain gear you actually trust, layers for 4°C mornings and 26°C afternoons, polarised sunglasses, a brimmed hat, and broken-in boots. We send a full packing list when your deposit clears. Rods and tackle are available to borrow at no charge, so bring your own only if you would rather fish it.
No. Roughly a third of our guests each season have never fished a fly-in lodge before. Tell us when you book and we will put you with Mick, who spends most of his summer teaching people to cast properly and enjoys it.
There is no cell coverage. The lodge has satellite internet in the main building, which is enough for messages and email but not for video calls. We also carry a satellite phone for emergencies, and we will give your family a number to reach us before you travel.
Yes — a Saskatchewan non-resident angling licence, roughly $85 for the season. You buy it online before you travel and it takes about ten minutes. We send the direct link with your confirmation, and there is a printer at the lodge if you forget yours.
Everything is released except what goes into the pan at shore lunch, which is the best meal of the day. You may take home one lake trout under 65 cm per licence, cleaned, packaged and frozen for the flight. Trophy fish always go back.
A 30% deposit holds your dates, with the balance due 60 days before arrival. Cancel more than 90 days out and the deposit transfers to any date in the following two seasons. Inside 90 days it is non-refundable, which is why we recommend trip insurance for a fly-in booking.
Both. Six cabins means we can take up to twelve, which suits a full corporate group or a family taking over the camp for a week. Solo anglers are paired with another single or fish with a guide alone at no surcharge — just tell us which you would prefer.
This is a request, not an instant booking — Wes reads them himself and replies within a day, usually with two or three weeks that are still open.