Shining Falls Lodge

First, the hosts and staff are amazing people-very helpful and skilled at everything. The world-class fishing was rivaled only by the world-class food. The boats are in excellent condition and outfitted with hummingbird fish finders that have great fishing spots already marked. The falls are absolutely beautiful and breathtaking-I suggest the canoe ride at the bottom! The hiking trails are refreshing and wonderfully maintained. Each meal was exciting with appetizers and deserts that were perfectly cooked and portioned. The shore lunches...I won't give away. The campfire is surrounded by water and stars. This is simply the best environment to deepen relationships, reconnect, meet new friends, and truly unplug to revive the soul. A pure blessing it was to be at Shining Falls.

You don't need to go anywhere else. This is the place. Beyond the over the top - best in class - Shorelunches, and simply the best food experience you can find anywhere, the walleye fishing is beyond what you can expect to experience anywhere in Canada. Plan on too many to count an hour. OH, and plan on some +40 inch Pike. As a Canadian, i have experienced a lot of lakes and lodges over the past 40 years, and this is the place you want to be. If you are lucky enough to get in, you will keep coming back just like all the other guests. They only offer a max of 5 Stars. This is experience is 6+.

Jay Kemp, Stony Plain, Alberta

Excellent fishing, amenities and food. It was a wonderful and amazing experience especially how remote this place is and stunning.
Tobias, Ellen and their staff were great and very friendly.
Would love to visit again along with my family.

Both professionally and for pleasure, I've spent time at a great many resorts in remote locations, seeking the good fishing there. In all those years, I've never met better hosts than Toby and Ellen at Shining Falls, nor any that truly and manifestly love and live for what they do. They’ve done a remarkable job at sustaining a quality resort in an isolated, fly-in location, with a superb staff. A great and ardent angler himself, Toby is a force of nature with the sort of boundless energy most people can only envy. We had an outstanding five days there, particularly fishing from Shining Falls’ fleet of Old Town Predator kayaks, pedal powered. Toby has ingeniously rigged a flat-topped, outboard-powered little ‘barge” of sorts on which he can zoom across the lake with up to six kayaks, so anglers can fish various destinations too far to easily reach on their own. Typically progressive, Toby is offering the only serious kayak-fishing experience at a remote fly-in lodge in Canada, at least that I've ever heard of. And if you think catching pike and walleye from a boat is fun, try it in one of the Old Town super-stable, very easily pedaled/steered kayaks! Whatever your purpose for a visit, I can’t recommend Shining Falls highly enough... five stars for the fishing, the food, the accommodations and the service!

Toby and Ellen were great! I have been doing fly in fishing trips for more than 30 years and these two are friendly, engaged and genuinely interested in us having a good time. The fishing was good and we caught more than our fair share of Walleye and Northern. Our party had a large number of Northern Pike in the 32-38" range as well as a 45" monster! The boats are in great shape, the motors started on one or two pulls and the staff made sure that we were all set to jump in and fish each morning with full tanks, dry seats, cleaned out and pumped out bilges as required. Finally, we had the American plan and the food was great! Menus were creative and Toby definitely has an interest in cooking well. This was our second visit and we will be back!