My raison pour for writing this article is to provide a brief history of each of the lodges that once, and in some cases continue to operate in various incarnations on the big lake, including information regarding their outpost camps, available side trips/fly outs, and much more.

Just Once!

That’s right, just once I would like to check in at the airport without some sort hassle!

Nicely written trip journal by Great Bear Lodge guest Phil Allen*,  describing his Great Bear Lake adventure that we believe took place in the late '60's or early '70's.

I’m pretty sure that anyone who has visited Great Bear Lake, either as an angler, guide, canoeist, naturalist, prospector or whatever, has a story to tell, and in this section we are going to be featuring your short stories or anecdotes - and by "short" we mean about 500 words or less.

One evening while guiding at Nieland Bay, Gayle Renner and I decided to do some fishing not too far from the lodge.

We hadn’t been fishing all that long, when she hooked a small Laker, maybe 4 pounds or so, and as she was bringing it in, I saw a large shadow pass beside the boat.