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Here at Aylmer Lake Lodge, we’ve set our sights on being the most incredible adventure you’ve ever experienced.  From the moment your float plane arrives at the dock to the second we wave goodbye, we want you to be amazed.

 

History: Aylmer Lake

The Aylmer Lake area was the last undeveloped Canadian fishery above the treeline, sitting almost 227 air miles NE of Yellowknife and just south of the arctic circle.

As far as the eye can see lays unforgettable vistas of barren land, glistening lakes and rivers, rippling rapids and vibrant flora and fauna.  Wildlife you’ve never seen before and the sweet sounds of solitude give you a new perspective on life.

In 1907, Ernest Thompson Seton, who was a prominent wildlife artist, author, and co-founder of the Boy Scouts, launched an expedition to the Northwest Territories and into Aylmer LakeIn July 2015, the Academy sent out “The Arctic Prairies Expedition II” expedition to retrace his route around this remote lake. The result of their research about Seton’s journey is chronicled in this film.

The land around Aylmer Lake is unique. Depending on the time you fly over the Tundra, the water can glow like molten gold. The eskers are sand embankments that link both land and water. Two-hundred-foot high eskers slash across the landscape – some 100 miles or longer.  Eskers formed as a result of the rivers flowing within the glaciers that once covered this land. Aylmer Lake is the seventh largest lake in the Northwest Territories.

In 2000, Aylmer Lake Lodge opened – intended to serve primarily as a caribou camp.  After being open for five years, the business was shuttered.  In 2012, new life was breathed into the Lodge when we took over.  With an exclusive allocation of over 1700 square kilometers of truly wild and remote lakes, Aylmer Lake Lodge became the home of amazing fishing.  There has never been commercial fishing or First Nation’s sustenance fisheries on these lakes, and nearly no sport fishing before 2013.

KEVIN’S THOUGHTS

Sailfish Of The North

Today we wanted to give a shout out to a very underrated species, the sailfish of the north, aka the Grayling. The official fish of the Northwest Territories is the Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus). The Arctic Grayling, a fish that can be found in a broad range of...

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PATTI’S RECIPES

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