Plummer's Arctic Lodges & Outposts: Team HellerHighWater and BBZ Are A Go For 2023!
Truly Legendary Fishing
Welcome to Plummer's Arctic Lodges. If you are looking for the best place for lake trout fishing, look no further. Plummer's Arctic Lodges have been offering the best lake trout fishing for over sixty years on Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake. We offer lake trout fishing trips that no other fishing lodge can match. From the pristine waters of Great Bear Lake Lodge, with no other boats for over 150 miles, to the non-stop trophy lake trout fishing within sight of the lodge on Great Slave Lake, there is no way to fairly compare us to any other operator.
There is a reason why we are the longest running fishing operation in the North, and there is a reason why we hold all the World Records for Lake Trout, Arctic Char, and Arctic Grayling. If you haven't already been to one of our lodges, chances are you know someone who has. Don't put off the trip of a lifetime.
Nearly 80 Years of History
About Plummer's Arctic Lodges
The Arctic has a rich history yet a relatively recent one. When you consider that mankind was only beginning to understand how little we do indeed understand about the Arctic in the 1930’s and you consider at the same time that the Plummer’s were exploring this part of the world in the late thirties it can be said with certainty that there is no one on the planet today that has explored more of this enchanting part of the world. While the north maintains its hold on remaining remote, for over 50 years Plummer’s has made it accessible in modern terms, defying what Mother Nature as laid in the path from the end of the road in Yellowknife to the Arctic coast.
The location of our Great Slave Lake Lodge was discovered by Warren Plummer and his father by canoe in 1938 but with the Plummer’s being pioneers in aviation it was not long before airplanes on floats and skis were being used by the family to explore beyond the frontier. As many of you reading this are aware, you do not have to spend long in a cove or among islands on Great Bear Lake casting from the float of an airplane to determine that you are on the best lake trout fishery in the world. This is where the Plummer’s decided the next lodge was to be built. We now operate three lodges on Great Bear Lake where the largest lake trout in the world have been caught since records were being kept. It is noteworthy that even in these modern times, a lake that is the size of England, that is only ice free for about 90 days a year has only Plummer’s operating fishing lodges on her shores. With that kind of limited access and the conservation policies of Plummer’s it is no wonder it remains the outstanding fishery it was over 60 years ago when the Plummer family began to explore it.
While fishing is still the biggest draw to the north in the summer time, you can’t spend a lifetime in the Arctic without getting into a few other adventurous outlets. Plummer’s can take you on many adventures in the Arctic including hunting for exotic big game like Musk Ox, floating the Coppermine River in rafts, canoeing endless rivers in the Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake watershed’s and kayaking the fresh water ocean we call Great Bear Lake amongst the shelter of the islands of the McTavish Arm from the old frontier outpost of Cameron Bay through the archipelago past the 1930’s mine site at Port Radium to our Arctic Circle Lodge. Wildlife opportunities are with you every moment you spend in the remote north but we can also organize targeted wildlife tours so that you get that footage you have been dreaming of, including caribou migration, Musk Ox herds, Grizzly Bears, plenty of raptors, wolves and many other species.
How The Bucket List Trip Of A Lifetime Began…
Bill Siemantel (Team BBZ) and Tim Tuttle (Team HellerHighWater)
The Beginning For Team BBZ
I have to give 100 percent credit to my best friend and fishing partner Tim Tuttle for memories that will last a lifetime. Back in 2015 as Tim and I where fishing Castaic Lake, he looked at me and asked if I had ever fished Plummer’s Lodges? My response was no, but it was on my bucket list to dos. With being a full time firefighter and just having to much stuff on my plate to even make time for a trip like that, I thought it was just a pipe dream of an adventure that someday I hope to make,
After a month or so Tim and I where fishing again, because fishing is our life, LOL. As it was getting close to my birthday in April, Tim looked at me and said you better takes these days off work in July. I asked why and he said we are going to Plummer’s and to a special location called the Arctic Circle Outpost, a place that Tim, his brother Terry and Dad started fishing many years ago. To say the Tuttle family is OG with Plummer’s is an understatement!
The Stage Was Set
Well there was no backing out now and the stories from the past that Tim was telling me kept me up most nights dreaming of monster Lake Trout and Northern Pike as long as my leg. I got the time off from the fire department and worked a few extra shifts to cover the entire trip. I was surprised that a trip of this caliber, a location so remote, and a lodge that lets you self guide….WHAT? Yes, the Arctic Circle Lodge Outpost lets you self guide. This means if are avid anglers and a true knowledgeable boaters with safety on the mind, you can fish from sunup to sundown! That’s about 20 hours of fishing per day for almost 7 days straight, if you can handle it! So you take that and divide it by seven days, in a location very few anglers will ever fish, and a solid chance to catch a lake trout from 10 to 50 pounds….The the overall cost of a trip like this is a Steal!
But, if you want the Red Carpet treatment with knowledgeable guides, breathtaking sceneries, simple travel arrangements to and from, incredible shoreline lunches, time to just relax and take it all in, then Plummer’s has many locations to fit anyone’s needs.
The Team Was Picked
The key to a successful and stress free trip of a lifetime is to get a group of anglers of like minds. Meaning birds of a feather flock together. If you have anglers that just want to experience the location with fishing for a few hours, taking a break and having a shore lunch, catching 30 lake trout before heading in for dinner at the lodge and then sitting back with great friends and building lifelong memories, then any one of the Plummer’s Lodges locations are a perfect fit.
But if you are hard core like Team BBZ and HellerHighWater and looking for that magical 30 to 50 pound lake trout and do not mind missing a shore lunch or even dinner while a handful of PB&J’s will do, you better put your name on the list for the Arctic Circle Outpost. 8 anglers and 4 boats are a perfect number for both traveling to and from Plummer’s and fishing the lodge, it will handle up to 12 anglers nicely.
The Trips Continued… Until
Once you experience Plummer’s Lodges, it captures your soul and you do everything you can to make it backup to the great NWT. Our group of anglers have been able to make a total of 3 trips back to Plummer’s with each year creating lifelong memories and sore arms by the end of the week catching more lake trout and northern pike than one person can count. Unfortunately when Covid hit and Canada closing down their borders, our team could not make it back to Great Bear Lake for a couple of years. Thankfully we are back and ready to once again make this trip with great friends to a destination where dreams become reality. Get ready Plummer’s Lodges and Great Bear Lake, we will be there soon for 2023!
Our Group For 2023 To Plummer’s Arctic Circle Outpost
2023 Plummer’s Lodges Team, Tim and Terry Tuttle, Jim Milbrand, Ron Licari, Al Davis, Darren New, John Thomas, and Bill Siemantel
