Saskatchewan, Canada

Saskatchewan, Canada

Premium Northern Pike Fly Fishing at it's Best

Leave the gear-chuckers behind with their lead jigs, their wobbly metal spoons, their minnows and leaches and fish like you were meant to be connected directly to the lake.  There's just nothing that can compare to the feel of the fish on a fly rod. 

Be prepared, hold on tight, and be patient.  Once you hook one of these big Northern Pike on a fly rod, the battle is on.  Big Pike have big power and they will test the bend in your fly rod and in the strength of your leader.  This will be a fight, a fight that will only end when the fish decides it is tired and let's you have control.  Then you can coax the fish to your guide's net where it will be handled and released safely.

The head shaking power of a Northern Pike is amplified all through the 9 feet of rod as you battle the fish to the boat.  Now realize that the toothy predator lurking hungrily below the surface might be a 40" pike ready to dart like a torpedo to your streamer fly and now you have some excitement!!
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The Outdoor Canada Experience

There’s no moment in fishing quite like it. You’re standing on the bow of a boat in two feet of water, retrieving a six-inch-long fly through the reeds when you see it: a V-shaped wake slicing toward your fly, as a huge toothy predator locks onto its target. Your heart’s in your throat, and your hand is slick with sweat, but you have to keep stripping or the fish will turn away. Then it happens—a flash of white as a giant mouth opens and engulfs your fly. The line comes tight, the water erupts in a head-shaking fury, and it’s on…

I’ve chased northern pike across much of their range, from weedy potholes to sprawling Canadian Shield lakes and tannin-stained rivers. But nowhere—nowhere—have I seen fish like those in Saskatchewan’s Cree River system. This June, during four days on the Cree, our group of four anglers landed 18 trophy-class pike, all on the fly, with over half of them sight-fished in skinny water. These weren’t just long fish; they were thick, broad-shouldered northerns that clearly spent their entire lives gorging on the river’s plentiful forage. Every one of us landed multiple trophies, and more than once we watched fish compete to crush a fly.


See the article at: https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/2025creeriver/

Fly Fishing Tackle Tips

These tips are meant as a guideline only. Most of you will have your favorite equipment and lures that you know work well. We have an excellent assortment of tackle at the lodge so if there's something that you are needing once you get up here, or have forgotten, don't worry. We probably have it!


Pike Flyrods

  • 9 or 10 wt rods with WF floating lines.  Sink tips can be advantageous under certain conditions.

Pike Flies

  • Large streamers in a variety of patterns and colours, poppers and other topwater patterns can be a lot of fun at times.
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