Three Rivers Lodge

The ice is almost out

and the our best-laid Labrador plans are just about complete.  The 2008 season is banging on our door and we leave soon for camp.  This will be our eleventh season in the Labrador bush, each one very different - all of them full of promise and adventure.  If you’re joining us this summer, you should know that we’re ready and able and anticipating another year of big, healthy, native, throbbing brook trout at the business end of our fly lines.  Now don’t wait ’til the last minute to get your gear out, clean your reels and lines, and take it out for some practice before you board your plane.  Coming prepared always gets you off to a better start on your week.

With the spreading problem of invasive species, many of them spore-born and hiding in wading boots, we ask that our guests please disinfect your wading gear by soaking it in a 4% solution of bleach and water before coming to camp.  If you forget or are unable to do so, we will treat your gear after you arrive in camp and before you enter our waters.

 If you are not joining us this summer, you may be interested to know that we have four spots remaining, two in July and two in August.  If you are interested, please call soon as we leave for Labrador the first of June.

 I wish you all a great fishing season, hope your home waters are kind and healthy, and may any trips to your fantasy waters prove to be all you dreamed of. 

News Update

Our web master has given us a new platform for posting news updates.  Though this is really just a test, I will take the time to mention that it is 60 degrees here in the Boston area and my bones are aching to stand in a river and wave a stick.  How about you?

Robin Reeve

Feb Update

Just wanted to drop a note here to update you on the little bit of news that the winter allows us. Kev, Frances and Matt will be heading into camp next Tuesday for their annual visit and wood-cutting excursion. Their snowmobile trip in can take up to three days breaking trails the entire way. With good fortune and cooperative weather, they’ll be at the 5th Rapids Camp Wednesday night. Then onto main camp where they spend about three weeks cutting firewood from standing burns and selecting logs for the sawmill. We do all our cutting far away from the camps so the hauling goes much more easily over frozen lakes than through the water in summer. We wish them well and appreciate their labor that makes our summer program possible. You should also know that we still have a scattering of spots throughout the coming summer. We are anticipating another bountiful summer exploring new waters and searching the more familiar haunts for Labrador’s big brook trout. Anyone want to go fishing?

Peace

All of us at Three Rivers wish all of our friends a peaceful and happy holiday season. May the New Year bring all of us a bright tomorrow.

Holiday Greetings

Kev, Frances, Dot, Darlene and all the “boys” in the guide shack have been in touch lately and want to wish all of our TRL friends the most peaceful, joyful holiday season. Chris, Kevin and I share the same kind thoughts. We are almost completely booked for the 2008 summer. Thank you! We are busy all winter long with shows, planning and such to pull together another terrific season in the Labrador wilds. We do have a few spots still open the first week of July and the last week of August. If you want to come up next summer, call soon. A note on the Flyfishing Show season: Due to family commitments, we will not be at the Charlotte show this year. We will, again, be in Denver CO; Marlboro, MA; Somerset, NJ; Chicago, IL; and Minneapolis, MN. Hope to see you if you are close to one of these venues. Again, may your holidays be filled with peace, family and warm feelings.

2007 Season

Well, it’s good to be back on the newsline again after a long absence due somewhat to a crashed computer and a long rebuilding process. We closed the camps for 2007 on September 15th and are all back to our real worlds preparing for 2008. This past summer was another successful season on the Woods River highlighted by a full camp for eleven weeks, terrific guests (veterans and rookies), no severe weather (only one weather delay) and steady fishing through the whole summer. Kev and Frances were joined in camp by Frances’ sister, Dot because Darlene opted to remain in Lab City for the summer, meeting guests at the airport and handling the myriad of “town” tasks that it takes to keep camp running. We had Cliff, Ned, and Quentin back in the guides’ camp and they were joined by new guides Sandy, Anthony and Lyman. Of course Kev and Frances are licensed guides as am I, but we took on an extra guide so the boys could have a day off occassionally. Eighty straight days with ten guests in camp requires non-stop work and the boys need the break once in a while. As I mentioned, we had what could be considered a “normal” season weatherwise. The river stayed a good levels throughout the season, there was the usual rain every other day or so and we lost no days to wind, the usual weather culprit. The brookies were healthy and fat with a second year of plentiful sucker fry and good solid hatches throughout June, July and most of August. We caught no ten pounders this season, but had a nice sampling of nines and many guests were able to catch six, seven and eight pounders. The pike fishing was a bit slow this season for who knows why. We had a bumper crop of otters, minks and eagles and they must have taken more than their share of the pike. The lake trout were very fat and healthy this season, very well proportioned. We are getting many inquiries about our new “Out on the Edge” program and will be posting sample trips on the web site in the near future. Our “Edge” trips this past summer were splendidly successful with wonderful days in the way-out bush and phenominal fishing. We are booking very heavily now for ‘08 with about 65% of the spaces filled as of this date. Please give me a shout of you would like to come north next summer. We will be attending several fly fishing shows this coming winter in the following cities: Denver, CO; Marlboro, MA; Charlotte, NC; Somerset, NJ; Minneapolis, MN; and Chicago, IL. Please come by to visit if you are close to one of these venues. Hope all of you enjoy a beautiful fall with some time astream or afield.

Rip Van Winkle

Well, it’s been over two years since I last posted here. I haven’t been taking a long nap, however. I lost my computer a couple of springs ago and along with it, the web address where we post these news updates. There’s a hot cup of black coffee next to me and I’m ready for the new challenge. Camp is now in our third week of the 2007 season. Ice-out came a bit late this season and the water is still maybe 10% higher than the norm. Our first week’s anglers started off with a weather delay that kept them in Wabush for a day and a half past schedule. Once in camp on Saturday afternoon, they were off to get in some fishing and many stayed out well past dinner-time. Highlight of the week was Bob’s nine pound brookie hooked, landed and photographed just off Babe’s Rock. We have a few new staff folks in camp this season. Darlene has elected to stay out in town and be our hospitality person. Her Aunt Dot (Frances’s sister) has taken Darlene’s place in the dining lodge. We have new guides Anthony (master chainsaw carver and former Newfie salmon guide), Sandy (our gentle giant) and Lyman, also of former salmon guide fame. They are replacing Jim Whittle (Ned’s son) who found full-time employment in his hometown on the Island and Jordan (guitar-man) Locke who is out to Alberta squeezing oil out of the tar pits. Marco, our larger-than-life Beaver pilot for the past four years, was promoted to Otter pilot this season and we are flying around the river system this year with Francois, our new pilot. Francois trained with John David (one of our former pilots). Francois’s family owns and operates a large sugar farm in Maine. Of course Kevin, Frances, Cliff, Ned and Quentin are back this summer and the old and new crews are quite a new team. We are full for this season but for a few spots in the third week of August (health cancellations). We are very appreciative of the confidence our guests, both new and returning, place in us each season. We will celebrate our tenth season with an even stronger effort to make our anglers’ dreams come true.