Sorry Folks. I never got a chance to update the blog yesterday.

The remainder of this weeks guests arrived and I never had the opportunity to write the update.

Things are going great for our guests with many of the new arrivals hooking up the first evening.

The High-liner of the new arrivals landed a Grilse and Salmon and lost another Grilse during his very brief outing.

Today most of the anglers have landed fish and the rookies of the group are quickly learning the proper casting techniques. We are confident that they will experience that we all remember as we land our first Atlantic Salmon.

The river has risen slightly over the past couple of days; however that trend has sadly slowed and we fear that it will begin to fall again before long.

Although Central Labrador is receiving precipitation, it has only been showers, not the heavy rains that we are all hoping for.

Our season has started with today's arrival of our first 4 guests. They are already landing salmon in the 12 - 14 lb range (6 kg).

The guides were telling me that while they were waiting for the plane to arrive they were continually seeing salmon jumping as they moved from Separation Point into the mouth of the river.

One experienced trout angler (who landed his first Atlantic Salmon today) very quickly realized that his habit of wrapping his fly line around his fingers is not recommended when Salmon angling.

Water levels have finally started to rise after a day of rain on the plateau. This is very much needed with this years unusually low water levels. The water level now is about 2.5 Ft (.75 M) lower than this time last year.

We are all optimistic that things will change and are very confident that our guests will have another successful season.

Dwight and Woody headed up to Pratts this evening and what a site to behold. The river never had a soul on it, and fish were rolling over the lip at Pratts and into the pools. It was a fantastic evening hooking large fish. 7 in total for the two hours spent there and many more rises. Fish porpoising everywhere. The rips along ladder rock, above elephant rock, and below the tub were alive! Let's hope the water conditions cooperate for the rest of the season. A great start!

3 days ago we ventured into the river to ramp up the camp for another season. Things are running smoothly and we are ready to welcome the first guests on Friday!

Eagle River, like all rivers in Newfoundland and Labrador right now, is very low for this time of year. We are all a little bit concerned for the fishing conditions later in July. Right now there are plenty of pools to fish and the water temps have been holding in the mid 60s. The 5 day forcast shows showers and chance of showers...

The last couple of days have been a whirlwind for us at Pratt Falls Salmon Lodge. We were busy preparing boats and getting freight ready to go to camp this week to open up, only to receive a phone call tuesday afternoon...FOREST FIRE!! Due to the high number of fires in Labrador, at first there was some confusion as to how close it was, but at around 5pm we had arial confirmation that it was around 2km west of the lodge and we had south westerly winds and 25-30 degree heat.

Needless to say...

Wow, the spring break up was an impressive one! Our lodge sits quite high on the river banks of the Eagle in an area not prone to ice damming...and thank goodness it does! Eagle river rose to a roaring 6.3m this spring and was only about 3 feet from going over the river bank at the lodge. We lost our steps to the beach, but have plans to get more in place as soon as the river settles enough to navigate. The falls were not even falls this year, moreso just a raging chute.

We are looking...

Dwight will be travelling to Augsberg, Germany to take part in the 15th annual Jagen und Fischen show Jan 19th-22nd! We hope to see some of our past guests at the show and look forward to networking and promoting our product to the European market. See you there!

Hello Everybody! A couple of months have passed by already since we last played fish on the Eagle River. 2011 is flying by and the booking season for 2012 is upon us. We have several time slots booked up but there is still some great prime time fishing available for next season. Don't miss out! Get in touch with Dwight today at dwight@prattfallslodge.com and book your time with us. Check out current availability on the menu to the left on our website.

Have a safe and happy "off season" folks! We will be sending out info and updates over the winter.

We bid farewell to our last group mid day today, and the fishing they had this morning was icing on the cake for some of them.

With another successful season behind us we will now prepare to winterize the Lodge, store the boats and engines, and perform the final maintenance for the season. It doesn't end there as over the winter we will be marketing, restocking the camp for next year...and by mid June we will be restlessly waiting to get back on the water!

We would like to thank all our...

Lets be honest, we had some concerns for this last group of the year. two weeks ago we started emailing this group that we affectionately have labeled, "The Norwegians", to tell them that river conditions were deteriorating and we expected the fishing to be very poor due to the low and warm water. This group decided to follow through on their plan and arrived last Saturday. We are very pleased that they have had a good week. 3 of the 6 are rookies to fly fishing for atlantic salmon and they...