The small group-sizes allow for staffing ratios of one guide to every two guests, ensuring a quality experience and significant attention for every person on the trip. It also means that trips to the lodge can be catered to each group – it’s choose-your-own-adventure, with all of the provisions.
One group of connoisseurs plans ahead with the Petersons to pair their menu with choice wines, and makes sure to really soak in every shore lunch – a daily staple of a fishing trip at the lodge. One of the guests, Steve Cohen, even prefers to do a share of the cooking, frying up the shore lunches every day with the help of the guides.
Because of the numbers, the timing of when you’re going to fish and come in for dinner is very flexible. It’s a small group, so they work around us. They’re very accommodating in the sense that I can have the run of whatever they’ve got in terms of supplies to do the shore lunches. They’re really lots of fun and we bring wine, and beer too, but it’s less important than the wine.
Making the experience work for the guests is their goal at Peterson’s Point Lake Lodge – whatever the guests’ requirements. About an hour-and-a-half flight from Yellowknife, the lodge has four separate cabins offering different suites, both shared and independent. There’s a lounge area where guests relax and recall the full days of fish and food, and a shower house and sauna for added luxury.