Great Fishing from Yellowknife

Yellowknife is a perfect starting point for a fishing trip beyond your wildest dreams. There’s Great Slave Lake, home to 35 kg lake trout and monster northern pike. Choose a lodge on the shoreline and fish day and night. Or pick a weekend trip on Yellowknife Bay, the East Arm or the North Arm with a local outfitter.

Land an Arctic grayling, a fine eating whitefish with a sail-like dorsal fin. Long gone from less pristine southern waters, grayling and pickerel thrive here in our clean, fast flowing streams and rivers.

Well Worth The Travel

More Activities To Enjoy

One of a Kind Fishing

The Landscape

Get the Reel Deal

The water’s clean. The sun shines at midnight. And the only crowds are under the water’s surface. This is a fishing vacation far from the ordinary.

Fishing Excursions

A True Northern Feast

Nothing beats the fresh taste of fish caught in the Northwest Territories. Eating fish fresh from the lake in the northern wilderness is almost decadent. No five star restaurant can ever match such spectacular flavours.

The NWT Fishing Experience

If you are leaving from Yellowknife, Fort Smith or Norman Wells, you board a bush plane on floats, and take off with a roar from the water. After a short flight, your pilot circles the camp, and you pull up to the dock on a big lake where your lodge is the only building you can see.

Choose Your Package

Choose a half-day escape filled with great fishing, a weekend, or a week-long adventure. Wherever you go, our fish and our natural world will surprise and challenge you.