A unique unspoiled walleye and northern pike fishery. Fly-in or Train-in. Unbelievable,
protected, fishing for Walleye and Northern Pike is as good today as five hundred years ago.
Flindt Landing Camp - Walleye Fishing Canada.
Spectacular remote fly-in or train-in fishing - North of 50
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David Gish
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View Map. Flindt Landing Camp is a virgin Northern Pike and Walleye fishery that has never been exploited. Why do we call it 'Virgin'? The fishing here is as good today as it was in the time before man. The few fish we have taken over the years cannot change this fishery. Here is our story
The seventeen mile Flindt Landing water system is a river fed, little known, never promoted, unpressured, fishery with protected waters, bays, islands and shoals that has been conserved for over forty years by a small camp with a big preservation plan.
This is the unique and somewhat unbelievable story of the Flindt Landing Camp Fishery. Our story is about how one man with a vision, the late Dave Gish, who conspired with nature to preserve his seventeen mile lake system and unspoiled, protected, river fed fishery for thirty eight years so you could enjoy its bounty today exactly as he was able to when he first discovered it as an untouched and unspoiled fishing paradise in 1963.
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The Northern Pike and Walleye fishing at Flindt Landing is as good today as it was five hundred years ago! This is a story about a remarkable man and his inspired vision to preserve his Northern Pike and Walleye fishery just as he found it. Unknown, unpresured and uniquely bountiful for historical and geological reasons.
The Flindt Landing Camp Northern Pike and Walleye fishery is huge - magnificently large and well fed. A river flows into one end of the lake system delivering nutrients into the fishery that feeds the insects, larva, nymphs and invertebrates. The slow moving waters distribute nutrients along the shores and over the gravel bottoms for seventeens miles of the fisheries lake system. This Northern Pike and Walleye fishery is simply force fed!
Pre-historic glaciers carved out the bays, created the islands and undulating shoreline and a glacial river deposited its gravel on the lake bottom ten thousand years ago. The fishery is constantly scoured and cleaned by the slow movement of the waters that are pushed from one end of the lake system to the other by the rivers unyielding force. The Flindt Landing Northern Pike and Walleye fishery is capable of supporting and growing many times more fish per acre than any ordinary bathtub lake system which make up the vast majority of lakes in Ontario.
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The lake is narrow and protected .There are seventeen miles of protected waters and many hundreds of miles of shoreline created by the unnumbered bays and islands. Nature created tea stained waters that allow Northern Pike and Walleye fingerlings and juvenile fish to hide effectively from predators in the weed beds, camouflaged by the water itself. The gravel bottom was deposited by receding glaciers ten thousand years ago. The gravel is called Esker. Esker once formed the bottoms of the giant glacial rivers trapped inside the melting ice flows. The gravel in the lakes is evidenced by the many sand beaches found in the protect bays. Bays and shallows are weeded with natural gravel bottoms and are ideal spawning grounds for Northern Pike and Walleye. The waters of the system slowly move from one end of the lake system where river water enters to the other end, seventeen miles downstream where the river is reconstituted and flows out of the lake system. The slowly moving waters deliver the never ending supply of food for the small creatures that in turn feed the Walleye and the Northern Pike. Fish spawn around the points of land where the gravel bottoms are exposed by slow moving currents that quicken as they round the jutting points obstructing their way. The slow moving waters carry the nutrients that feed the creatures that sustain the minnows, pre fish and the Northern Pike and Walleye fingerlings.
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Simply put, the river supplied lake system can support more Northern Pike and Walleye per acre than most lakes and the fishery had never been exploited. David Gish implemented conservation rules forty years ago that insured most trophies were caught and released, providing future generations of Northern Pike and Walleye with the genes they needed to grow large too.
Flindt Landing is made up of just five cabins. The fishery is so big and so remote and the lodge accommodates so few guests that no amount of fish taken by Flindt Landing fishermen have ever had any effect whatsoever on spawning rates, numbers or size. Because the waters are so large and the fishermen so few, we believe that most Northern Pike and Walleye in the lake have never seen a lure! The fishing for Walleye and Northern Pike is as good today as it was forty years ago is as good or better than it was five hundred years ago!
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Coming from, and being successful in the lumber industry, David's life was a lifelong study of the need to preserve natural resources. After all, his lumber yard and his financial success was dependant upon the constant supply of woods harvested from the forests that supplied his business. Financial success allowed Dave to explore his passion for the outdoors and fishing. He found and purchased Flindt Landing Camp in 1963, located in the heart of what he recognized was still a unique, one of a kind, virgin fishery for Northern Pike and Walleye in North-western Ontario.
Being the only camp allowed in the seventeen mile lake system, David effectively exercised 100% control of his remote Northern Pike and Walleye fishery. David became the master of his domain and nature's guardian. Not needing or seeking commercial success for his camp, he kept Flindt Landing Camp very small and exclusive. He did not promote it at sport shows or in the media. He never invited sports figures, TV and Magazines to promote his Northern Pike and Walleye fishing heaven on earth. Flindt Landing Camp was protected by the people who were lucky enough to hear about it from word of mouth alone. These lucky folks were usually limited to the extended family members of guests that returned year after year. You didn't need to be rich to qualify to come to Flindt Landing Camp, that wasn't Dave's way, you just needed to know about it. Looking back, we now realize that over the years, those in the know that came to Flindt Landing Camp kept their Northern Pike and Walleye fishing stories to themselves to insure the fishery would be untouched by fishing pressure, year over year.
Dave used the camp primarily to forge a lifelong relationship with his daughter Patsy who owns and runs the camp today. He spent time with her to ensure that she was imbued with his love of the wilderness and the understanding of conservation she needed to carry on and preserve his fishing paradise. Patsy Collins Gish follows the only management philosophy she knows, the one her father taught her during the years they ran the camp and they fished together.
Flindt Landing Camp remains largely unknown and unfished. Its one of Canada's most unique and abundant Northern Pike and Walleye fisheries. Its waiting for you and your family to explore and enjoy. Fishing for Northern Pike and Walleye today an Flindt Landing Camp is truly as good today as it was in the time before man. You simply cannot find a better protected wilderness walleye and pike fishery dominated by a private, small and quiet micro fishing camp that never accommodates more than five small fishing parties at one time from May to October.
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Flindt Landing Camp remains largely unknown and unfished. Its one of Canada's most unique and abundant Northern Pike and Walleye fisheries. Its waiting for you and your family to explore and enjoy. Fishing for Northern Pike and Walleye today an Flindt Landing Camp is truly as good today as it was in the time before man.
You can fly-in to Flindt Landing Camp from West Caribou Air's Float Base (caribouair.ca) located a few minutes away on the shores of Savant Lake. VIA Train customers arrive directly at Flindt Landing Camp. Camp accommodation is located on a nearby Island and is conneced to the camp by a 150' footbridge
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