I wouldn't say that this was a perfect fishing week here at the lodge, but I'll tell you what… For the conditions and early season fishing this group did well. Weather delayed their arrival by half a day, weather forced us to do a road and boat changeover today, and the rains prior to this departing groups arrival drove the river into a rising state for nearly their entire stay. Not to mention the two scorching bright days we had on the weekend. Despite those conditions, everyone...

Happy Canada Day! We love our country, and are proud to host our fellow Canadians and people from around the world to experience our angling adventure in the Labrador wilderness!

Our first group is in, and it wasn't without some weather delays. Not too bad though. They still got in on arrival day with time for dinner and an evening fishing session. Huge shout out to Melina in Goose Bay for looking after our guests and the whole team for hustling to get their baggage out to Cartwright and...

Hello all, and welcome back to the 'Eagle River Report' for what we hope will be a great season. We have had a busy preseason here at the lodge. We've been here since June 7th doing some renos and getting things in top shape. It is a different looking year around here. The Eagle had a very low spring run off, and is very low for this time of year. Very low snow pack and a dry spring on the Eagle Plateau are the culprits. It has been holding steady at 2.1m for the last few days though,...

As we recover from the travel impacts on Covid 19, 2022 was a short year for us here at PFSL. We've been off the river since August 4th, and we're missing it so very much, and know that we have missed out on some nice weather and good fishing.

Our neighbours down river at Eagle Club have had some good August fishing. The group of 5 there now due to depart tomorrow have over 40 fish on their scorecards. Very decent numbers, and for sure a few sea run brook trout in the river as well by...

The first dog days of August have passed, and another group of happy anglers departed the lodge today. This was a week of greenhorns of all ages! There were a couple of experienced anglers in the mix, but we had a contingent of young corporate guests wetting salmon flies for the very first time, right up to our eldest pair of guests on record at 83 and 85 years young and also their first time fishing for atlantic salmon. Proof that it is never too late to try something new! Tom and Don...

In our last report we spoke to the challenging conditions, and arrivals with no luggage, yet success was still being had. Well, those guys with no baggage?…They had a time. They had a great time. Once in our care, the late baggage was soon forgotten while we dealt with it in the background and they enjoyed their first fishing sessions.

All 12 of our guests that left today were first time guests to our lodge and some were first time anglers. Everyone had great success and all are...

I'm an optimist. I always put the best spin I can on pretty much everything. I always 'hope' for good conditions. But it doesn't always happen. The conditions for the group that left yesterday were tough. Very unseasonably high water. Cold downpours of rain. Fires lit throughout camp every day to keep things cozy and dry.

A classic old one hit wonder, 'Blame it on the Rain', by Milli Vanilli, is what we thought we would be singing this past week (Sorry if that is now stuck in your...

Another week has passed and today we say see ya later to a fantastic mixed group of 12 departing camp, and welcome the next bunch of intrepid anglers, braving the Labrador weather in search of the Eagle River bounty.

The weather! It's been a wet week. The river has risen to a bit of a torrent. The water remains cool at 55-56F. All seasoned anglers know that rising water is not ideal for angling results. That said, there are still a lot of fish entering Eagle. They are not holding up long...

This season thus far is nothing but a string of success stories. The returns are very healthy. I can't help but think that the shutdown of Greenlands commercial fishery, coupled with the high water havens that our salmon have returned to the last cycle has contributed to the impressive run of fish that Eagle is seeing. Guide, Hedley, stated yesterday that there was no time yesterday that you could look across the river and not see several fish porpoising, or in the air at the same time....

No doubt about it last weeks success was hindered some by the high water and extreme heat, but that has changed greatly! The water level is now down to 2.4m and 275 cubic m/s, and has cooled to 58-60F. Excellent conditions.

The fishing has been stupendous. We had two Eagle River first timers in camp this week, and 10 repeat offenders. They all seen some of the best atlantic salmon fishing that anyone could see anywhere in the world. Eagle has a lot of big fish in it. There were multiple...