About Allanwater Lodge
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The Allanwaters - Wilderness Adventure in Ontario's Northwest. The Allanwaters are located about twenty minutes east of the community of Savant Lake if arriving by aircraft provided by West Caribou Air.
Alternatively, one can opt to arrive by Via Rail. Guests arrive by rail and are dropped off right at our lodge and can travel to Allanwater Lodge either from Armstrong, the closest town to the East, or Sioux Lookout and Savant Lake the closest towns to the West.
Allanwater Lodge and the vast area of our lakes and rivers fishery are within the Wabakimi Wilderness Provincial Park and located on the Brightsands Provincial Waterway. The Allanwaters are made up of a string of trophy walleye, northern pike and lake trout lakes and rivers that are accessible from our lodge by motor boat.
We operate three outpost camps or nearby lakes. Our outpost camps are only accessible by float plane.
The Allanwaters fishery, is a trophy walleye and northern pike and lake trout lakes and river region that is accessible from our lodge by motorboat, as well the remote flyin fishing and river moose hunt camps. The Allenwaters are located within two premier wilderness waterway parks, Wabikimi Provincial Forest and The Brightsands Provincial Waterway Park. The parks encompass more square miles than Yellowstone Park.
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The Allanwaters is the western gateway to these two fabulous wilderness preserves with luxury rail service as well as dependable safe air service. Allanwaters are, approximately seventeen miles long by six miles wide. The fishery offers numerous trophy-producing lakes hooked together like links in a chain by the areas two most prominent rivers; the Allanwater and Brightsands. We are located were the two great rivers meet. Our Allanwaters fishery is a protected wilderness. Allanwaters Lodge is the only fishing lodge on this very special sport fishery.
We also provide three fully equipped remote flyin fishing outposts located deep within the provincial park which are available for those looking for the ultimate private wilderness adventure on trophy lakes.
For moose hunters we provide and three private moose hunting locations north of 50. Our moose hunting camps are located on the Albany River, the Mishakow River and on Achapi Lake.
You can plan your trip to Allanwater Lodge by train by contacting Via Rail Canada or by contacting our flying service, West Caribou Air Service in Savant Lake.
Fishing Description
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Steps from you cabin, your sixteen foot Lund boat with electric start Honda 15 HP. 4-stroke outboards await you to take you to a myriad of fishing locations. The confluence of the area's two major rivers is literally 400 yards from our dock. Even thought you have five to miles to the SW and up to fifteen miles in the SE direction. Fabulous fishing opportunities are just a few minutes away in the vibrant flowing currents of Allanwater or Bright Sand Rivers. Navigating these current areas between the lakes is very easy with a little guidance from us in your orientation to the area we provide on your arrival and offers you a rich and exciting true wilderness experience which is unparalleled. Make no mistake, our lakes with their abundance of structure and current are first class fishing. The real bonus is that there are at least four major water inlet - outlet river current profiles easily accessible and close to your cabin.
Genetically dominate fish are more easily found near river current and transition areas an on the seems between flowing and still water because that is where the food is most abundant and most easily preyed upon. We provide these areas marked on the maps when you arrive. Pristine waters, natural beauty, fir, feather and fin, wildlife are common here for your pleasure to observe in the peace of the north woods. There are no other lodges on McEwen Lake and Lake Kawaweogama which make up the Allanwaters System.
Allanwaters Fishery System
Starts in Allanwater River 15 miles south of the camp and has its headwaters in Lake Seseganaga with is 15 wide and 20 miles long. The Allanwater River flows eight miles north though Sunray Lake to Lake Kawaweogama. The lake is five and one half mile south to north and four miles east to west. Allanwater Lodge is located about five miles down the lake. The unusual feature of the lake is the gravel esker that creates shallow and spawning areas right down the middle. The lake is populated with dozens of Islands, unnumbered bays, sand flats, shoals, weeded shallows. Depth range from seventy feet to weeded shallow bays. The lake is unique in another important way. The typical below water structures are formed by rock rubble, gravel and shear drop-offs near some islands and shoreline cliffs. The farthest south that we fish without portaging is twelve miles way, just south of Sunray Lake at Trout Rapids located two miles north of Lake Seseganaga. The Allan water after passing under the Via Rail Road bridge five hundred yards from the lodge, turns directly north into the Wabakimi Wilderness Provincial Park. Allanwater guest can fish the Allanwater River downstream for about a mile and one half by outboard after which the river is accessible by canoe only.
We are one of the few access points to Northern Ontario's Wabakimi Wilderness Provincial Park, a northern Ontario wilderness preserve larger in area than Wyoming's Yellowstone. Allanwater Lodge is the only lodge in a vast chain of lakes nestled at the confluence of the Brights and Allanwater rivers, Allanwater is 25 miles from the nearest road and our series of lakes are over seventeen miles from end to end, not including the rivers and over four miles wide and populated with hundreds of Islands and bays. We are easily accessible by train or float plane. You are not likely to every see another boat.
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Access to the vibrant flowing waters of the regions two prominent river systems and many glacial formed lakes, offers fabulous trophy walleye fishing and northern pike fishing in northern Ontario all season long. After you leave the camp, you are soon in unknown virgin waters teeming with walleye and northern pike. Adding to the thrill of catching that trophy fish is the fulfillment of the desire many share for primitive areas and real wilderness of northern Ontario.
There are only a handful of such untouched places to go fishing in Canada or in the world today. The Allanwater managers are the custodians of a fishery that is so large and that has experienced so few fishing man hours each year for two generations and more that it is statistically impossible for the fishing that has been done could have had any effect on the productivity of the fishery. For thirty years we have been returning trophies to sire new generations, ensuring that the fishery was as good or better than we found it. Since the gene pool of the lunker pike, walleye, lake trout and book trout has never been damaged, the genes of the fish in the Allanwater fishery are the same that produced the big fish five thousand years ago are still carried in today's fingerlings and by the trophies that sired them. Trophies swim in the Allanwaters today by the thousands. The Allanwaters have never been advertised in the larger media, never featured on television or in magazines and only visited by a very few lucky fisherman families that have been returning to the Allanwaters year after year for the best remote wilderness fishing Canada has to offer!
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Bright Sand River Waterway Park
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The Bright Sand River's headwaters are in another mammoth lake called Wapakamaski Lake located fourteen miles to the south east and its east of Lake Seseganaga. Wapakamaski Lake is huge water system about fifteen miles long and three miles wide. The Bright River flows in a northwesterly reaching Antler Lake then continues three miles to Snowshoe Lake then two miles McEwen Lake which is four miles south east of Allanwater Lodge. Allanwater Lodge guest can fish this water system with one or two portages as far south as Antler Lake.
Mcewen lake narrows to a river that flows into the Allanwater River at the Via Train Bridge about five hundred yards from the camp.
The Allanwaters system is made up of an interconnected system of lakes and rivers that spans fifteen miles to seventeen miles long by four to ten miles wide, most of it accessible by outboard. Its almost impossible for one fisherman to fish all of the system in one life time.
Allanwater Bridge Lodge
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Allanwater Lodge is a self catering fishing camp made up of six well maintained and properly equipped cabins and two outpost camps. All visitors are provided with a quality Lund aluminium boat and Honda four stroke outboard motor. Boats are provided on the basis of two persons per boat. The sheltered waters provide endless fishing locations and guides are not needed or available.
In the early 1900s, the Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post in Northern Ontario at the present day location of Allanwater Bridge Lodge, an isolated stop on the Canadian National Railroad.
Today you will find Allanwater has been transformed to a friendly, owner-operated lodge. Its log cabins and buildings provide a rustic atmosphere and comfortable accommodations.
At Allanwater we look forward to providing you with the opportunity for an unbeatable wilderness fishing vacation.
Generator and power
We run our power supply from 730 am to 11pm seven days per week to supply reliable 100 volt service for your needs. Battery chargers are available on request.
Water Supply
No need to pack in heavy bottled water. All camp water receives state of the art purification and filtration. First stage water passes through a sediment filter to capture particulates then through a UV chamber which kills any microbes that may be present. Finally if you take water from the stack spigot your drinking water is filtered down to 5 microns which is bottled water quality and the same institutions such as hospitals and public services.
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