Fishing Lodges We Love
Our hand-picked guide to the best fishing lodges we know, every one of them a place whose gift shop carries our pewter. These are lodges we supply, we trust, and we would send our own family to fish.
We make pewter pins, magnets, and keychains for fishing lodges across Alaska and British Columbia, and over the years a simple truth has emerged: the lodges that stock our work are, without exception, places run by people who care about doing things properly. So we built this guide. Every lodge below is a working partner of ours, a shop that carries Creative Artisan pewter and a fishery we are proud to be associated with.
There are no rankings here and no scores. A self-guided camp in Elfin Cove and a fly-out lodge in Katmai are different kinds of wonderful, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we can promise is that each of these places earned its spot the same way: by treating anglers well, season after season. Tap a pin on the map, or browse by region, and start planning the trip. When you go, you will find our pewter in their gift shops. When you come home, it will still be on your fridge, reminding you to book again.
Alaska
Aleknagik Island Lodge
Lake Aleknagik, Bristol Bay, Alaska
- King salmon
- Sockeye salmon
- Silver salmon
We love Aleknagik Island Lodge for its scale, just eight guests on their own island in Bristol Bay, and fishing that changes with every run of the summer. We...
Eagle Charters
Elfin Cove, Chichagof Island, Alaska
- Halibut
- King salmon
- Silver salmon
We recommend Eagle Charters to anyone who wants Elfin Cove fished properly, with a captain reading the tides and the salmon lanes for you. We are proud their...
Kulik Lodge
Kulik River, Katmai National Park, Alaska
- Rainbow trout
- King salmon
- Sockeye salmon
We hold Kulik Lodge in the highest regard: Alaska's original fly-out lodge, on one of the finest rainbow trout rivers on earth. We are proud their gift shop ...
Majestic Eagle Lodge
Kupreanof Island, near Petersburg, Alaska
- Salmon
- Halibut
We love a lodge that trusts its guests with the boat and still looks after everything around the fishing, and Majestic Eagle does exactly that from the Peter...
Pybus Point Lodge
Pybus Bay, Admiralty Island, Alaska
- Halibut
- King salmon
- Silver salmon
We love sending our customers to Pybus Point because it shows off the Inside Passage the way it deserves to be seen, whales, glaciers, and boats coming back ...
Treehouse Cove
Seldovia Bay, Kachemak Bay, Alaska
- Halibut
- King salmon
- Silver salmon
We admire places that keep Alaska personal, and Treehouse Cove does that beautifully, one group at a time, hosted by the Ogans themselves from the dock to th...
Water's Edge Lodge
Elfin Cove, Chichagof Island, Alaska
- Halibut
- King salmon
- Silver salmon
We have a soft spot for Water's Edge because it trusts its guests to do it their way, and Elfin Cove rewards that independence with big halibut and hard-runn...
British Columbia
Duncanby Lodge
Rivers Inlet, British Columbia
- Chinook salmon
- Halibut
- Lingcod
We respect a lodge that protects the very fish it is famous for, and Duncanby's Tyee release commitment and support for the Percy Walkus Hatchery say a lot a...
Haa-Nee-Naa Lodge
Dundas Island, British Columbia
- Chinook salmon
- Coho salmon
- Pink salmon
We feel a kinship with Haa-Nee-Naa: a remote island, light tackle, and chinook big enough to earn the name Tyee. We are thrilled their gift shop carries our ...
Haida Gwaii Safaris
Sandspit, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
- Chinook salmon
- Coho salmon
- Halibut
We point our BC-bound customers to Haida Gwaii Safaris for Chinook fishing with real soul, in a place where the culture and coastline are as memorable as the...
Nanook Lodge
Stuart Island, British Columbia
- Chinook salmon
- Coho salmon
- Sockeye salmon
We love Nanook for the way a day here holds both wild water and real welcome, from the run out past Stuart Island to dinner on that oceanfront deck. We are p...
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This guide is an honor roll of the lodges whose gift shops carry Creative Artisan pewter. If your lodge already stocks our work and we have missed you, tell us and we will fix it. If you run a lodge or a lodge gift shop and would like to carry a line of American-made pewter made for places like yours, we would love to talk wholesale.
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