When at First You Succeed – Do it Again for Another Week!
June 25, 2025
The Early Bird Catches the…
…Pike and does not miss the charter...
Over the 40 plus years we have been fishing Great Bear Lake, together with a number of friends who have fished with us from...
While Great Bear Lake can certainly frustrate you at times, it is also capable of producing the kind of fishing experience that most of...
Trip Journals
Plummer’s Great Bear Lake Lodge & Tree River – June 28 to July 8, 2018
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Having given Char fishing a miss last year, I decided that a return visit to the Tree River was in order, and together with...
After many years of planning, the stars and planets were finally in their proper alignment, and I made my first trip to the legendary...
Given how everything ultimately played out, you could easily say that these were the “lost” papers about a partially “lost” week – but more...
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The Eldorado mine, which eventually became known as Port Radium, was located on Great Bear Lake’s McTavish Arm, where it played a very significant...
While the aforementioned Thymallus arcticus, or Arctic Grayling, clearly bears no resemblance to a Salmon whatsoever, these scrappy little guys are actually members of...
Have you ever wondered how the places you have fished, or otherwise visited on and around Great Bear Lake came by their names?
I certainly...




































