Safety precautions and protocols

Northern Lights provides individual rooms for solo guests, and a large "great room," allowing for appropriate distancing during meals and socializing.

Join us Aug. 29, 2021, at Northern Lights Lodge in B.C.'s spectacular Cariboo country. Northern Lights is one of our favourite fly-fishing lodges, partly because of the fishing, and partly because of the atmosphere of the lodge and the hospitality of the people who run it. Long-time owners Skeed and Sharon Borkowski have the know-how to make your experience something you'll always remember. Skeed will keep us entertained and Sharon and staff will keep us extremely well-fed.

Northern Lights Lodge was the headquarters for several episodes of

Fly Fusion TV, which Jim co-hosts with Derek Bird, including
one of the most popular episodes, "Eden."

The lodge can be reached by a four-hour drive from Kamloops, B.C., or flights from Vancouver to Williams Lake, where guests are met at the airport. It's an "exotic trip" without the prohibitively high cost of getting there. When you're at Northern Lights, you never wish you were somewhere else.

Northern Lights was named Fly Fusion Magazine's

"lodge of the year" in 2010

More about the lodge? Visit nllodge.com

Questions for us or to secure your spot, send us an email.

What to expect....
This trip is ideal for people of varying levels of fly-fishing experience. While not suited for someone who has never fly fished, it's a great choice for people with some, even if limited, experience.

There two different and distinct types of fishing. One is "conventional" fishing with dry flies and nymphs for rainbows. The other is based on the return of sockeye salmon to Quesnel Lake's tributaries to spawn, and the rainbow trout that follow them up the streams from the lake to feed on eggs.
Bull trout are always around, sometimes in surprising numbers. This is a place where solitude is part of the fly-fishing equation and it's rare to see other anglers on any of these streams at any time of year. A visit to the ghost town of Quesnel Forks can also be arranged for folks interested in the gold-mining history of this part of the Cariboo.