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Fireside Lodge is located on Little Vermillion Lake near Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Outstanding smallmouth bass, northern pike and muskie fishing makes this place a fisherman’s heaven.
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Fishing
Fireside Lodge is the only resort on Little Vermillion Lake. They fish 8 lakes beside Little Vermillion Lake. Some of these lakes are portage lakes. All but one of their lakes have northern pike and most have smallmouth and muskie. There are also some walleye around but they are not featured at Fireside Lodge.
They fish the following lakes:
Booger Lake – Northern Pike
Cedarbough Lake – Muskie, Northern Pike, Smallmouth and White Fish
Closs Lake – Primarily Muskie and Smallmouth
Cloudlet Lake – Muskie, Northern Pike and Smallmouth
George Lake – Northern Pike
Hooch Lake – Muskie, Northern Pike and Smallmouth
Little Vermillion Lake – - Muskie, Northern Pike, Smallmouth and White Fish
Maskinonge Lake – Muskie, Northern Pike and Smallmouth
Terry Lake – Northern Pike
The lodge puts out weekly fishing reports on their site, which is very helpful in getting an idea of the fishing possibilities. Lots of fun reading for all of us who dream of Canadian fishing trips.
Fishing Videos
I can’t think of a cooler way to spend a 97th birthday…
Fishing pressure at Fireside…
Fireside Lodge 20th Anniversary DVD…
Fireside Lodge promotional video…look’s a bit dated…Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Moose swimming
Accommodations
Fireside Lodge is a drive to American Plan resort. They have rooms in the lodge as well as modernized cabins. Their food plan will not let you go hungry with breakfast, packed lunch, and dinner provided. Shore lunch kits are available. What is unique is that they will provide you with walleye or whitefish filets for your shore lunch.
Their standard boats are 16 foot Lund boats have floors, swivel seats, anchors and are equipped with landing nets and fish cradles. The boats are powered by 20hp Yamaha motors. Boat upgrades are available.
Packages and Rates
Their rates are based on the duration of your stay – 4 nights/3 days of fishing, $866.00 per person; 5 nights/4 days of fishing, $1065.00 per person; 6 nights/5 days of fishing, $1260.00 per person; and 7 nights/6 days of fishing, $1445.00 per person.
This includes pretty much everything including your conservation fishing license. It doesn’t include taxes. You can bring your own boat. If you do, they provide 5 gallons of gas per day.
Their 18′ Alaskan Lund boat upgrade with open floors, swivel seats, rod locker, storage, 40 hp Yamaha 4 stroke motor and front mounted trolling motor is
$115.00 per day.
Location
Fireside Lodge sits about 3 1/2 hours above the Minnesota border in Northwest Ontario and located about 10 miles from Sioux Lookout. The Google Map below is intended to give you an idea of their general location and does not reflect the exact destination.
Contact Information
Check out Fireside Lodge’s web site for more information or you can call them at 800-545-0815.
Comments and Reviews
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Fireside Lodge is a drive-to fishing resort 175 miles northeast of International Falls MN. The owners, Alan and Audrey Brandys, keep the resort in excellent shape and strive to make each visit the best possible. The expansive website provides information and many pictures, so there are no surprises about the quality of the resort, services or fish caught. I have been going for ten years, so I know the pictures are real.
Fireside Lodge has a capacity of about 30 anglers, so with 8 lakes accessible, you can have great fishing. It is the only resort on Little Vermillion Lake, which covers 5500 acres, and has the depth, structure and forage to support trophy muskies, northern pike and smallmouth bass. You cannot get lost on the long narrow lake, and Alan provides an excellent map, marking depth contours and hazards. With few private cabins and one campground on Little Vermillion you see few boats. You can steer your boat through creeks to three uninhabited lakes, Cedarbough, Maskinonge or Hooch, where even fewer boats are seen. Lastly, you can walk with rods and tackle to four lakes (Terry, Booger, George, Closs), at each of which Alan keeps an equipped boat, guaranteeing you are the only fishermen on the lake.
By fishing weed beds for pike and rock piles and shores for smallmouth, you can catch abundant pike to 30 inches or 12-18 inch smallmouth bass. When conditions are favorable, you can catch these fish as fast as you can land them and resume fishing. Catching the trophies requires being more selective in locations and presentations. When you arrive at Fireside Lodge, Alan explains the lake and its fishing. More importantly, Alan is available at every breakfast and dinner for instruction on locations, lures and presentations. His friendliness and humor make you want to stay and swap stories, instead of going out fishing. You can read in the websites weekly reports that trophy fish are regularly caught. The reports don’t tell you where or how the fish were caught, but Alan will tell you, when you talk to him in the morning and evening.
All in all, the people, facilities, and the fishing make Fireside Lodge an outstanding choice. Add in the lakes, eagles, loons, moose, and other natural beauty and the trip will be memorable.
Fireside Website: http://www.firesidelodgefishing.com/
Location on Google Earth: N 50° 01′ 19″ W 92° 04′ 38″
Highly recommend. Went there over 15 years ago and had a great time, recently returned and to my surprise, all of the qualities we loved: private lake, great fishing, awesome staff (the owner and his wife LOVE their jobs and the girls who work in the kitchen / serve the tables are the most positive, engaging people I have seen at such a remote resort), no technology distractions, great lunches to eat on the lake…were still there, and the things they have changed: new cabins, solid boats and new motors each year that are in great condition, and a private lake…have all raised the bar / beaten expectations. Oh, and it has very, very good fishing. (The fact that it is a catch, photograph, and release lake system helps.)
Overall – take this simple advice: Go. You will be VERY happy that you did. We were.