Hello Everybody! A couple of months have passed by already since we last played fish on the Eagle River. 2011 is flying by and the booking season for 2012 is upon us. We have several time slots booked up but there is still some great prime time fishing available for next season. Don't miss out! Get in touch with Dwight today at dwight@prattfallslodge.com and book your time with us. Check out current availability on the menu to the left on our website.

Have a safe and happy "off season" folks! We will be sending out info and updates over the winter.

We bid farewell to our last group mid day today, and the fishing they had this morning was icing on the cake for some of them.

With another successful season behind us we will now prepare to winterize the Lodge, store the boats and engines, and perform the final maintenance for the season. It doesn't end there as over the winter we will be marketing, restocking the camp for next year...and by mid June we will be restlessly waiting to get back on the water!

We would like to thank all our...

Lets be honest, we had some concerns for this last group of the year. two weeks ago we started emailing this group that we affectionately have labeled, "The Norwegians", to tell them that river conditions were deteriorating and we expected the fishing to be very poor due to the low and warm water. This group decided to follow through on their plan and arrived last Saturday. We are very pleased that they have had a good week. 3 of the 6 are rookies to fly fishing for atlantic salmon and they...

We had some rain yesterday and last night, both here and in on the Eagle River plateau.

Not a large amount of rain but the river is up about 3 - 4 cm (1.5 - 2 in) this morning.

We did see a slight increase in fish movement and a couple of our anglers successfully landed fish.

The increase in water level and current overcast conditions should provide more favorable angling results for the remainder of the week.

The rain also lowered the temperature of the water, which also is beneficial to anglers.

There is still not much change in the water level in the river. It seems that the river is not dropping as fast as it did previously.

There are still some fish in the river and our guests are making contact, but are still learning how to play a fish using our tackle.

It is much more challenging for an angler to hook and land a fish using a single barb-less hook than it is using tube flies with double or treble barbed hooks.

Even though the fishing is tougher, one of the co-owners of our...

Despite the fact that the water levels are continuing they seem to have stabilized; at least for the moment and do not seem to have dropped much over the last couple of days.

We have had some minor showers over the last couple of days but still no major rainfall.

The forecast is indicating that we will get rain tomorrow and hopefully this will help the river; however it is too late in the season to make much difference.

Our group on anglers have had some success hooking fish, but since the fishing tackle that we use here is a little different they are still adjusting.

They are enjoying their stay and indicate that they are happy knowing that there are fish in the river; which is all any angler requires.

Our last group of guests arrived yesterday evening. They are all first time anglers on the Eagle River from Norway.

They seem excited to begin their adventure, despite one of them having all his salmon flies taken by security in Halifax.

The water level in the river is still very low and they will only have 2 locations to fish. Basically the only water that is can be fished now is the Air Force Pools and Pratt Falls.

We are hopeful that they will have good fishing but that remains to be seen.

They do have a couple of things in their favor. Last night was a full moon and there is actually rain in the forecast for the Goose Bay area. Hopefully the rain is not too little too late.

We are still working around the Lodge making some improvements to the accommodations and performing some maintenance.

Water level in the river continues to drop, and the precipitation in the forecast does not indicate that the water level will increase in the near future.

Sea trout are starting to make their way upstream. I saw one that was caught yesterday that was easily over 3 pounds (1.5kg).

The level of the water has now made travel around the river very difficult.

There are only 2 places on the river where anglers are being successful; Pratt Falls & the Air Force pools.

As for the other pools on the river the water is either too slow or you are unable to navigate there by boat.

The flow of water has slowed considerably and a couple of our guides report that they were unable to get the normal swing on their fly in the bathtub. They also found that the boat was getting pushed...