What a lodge week actually costs
Across 543 Ontario and Manitoba lodges that publish a rate, the median fishing week runs US$1,014 per person — with the middle half falling between US$511 and US$1,751. A fly-in week costs 2.5× a drive-to week.
The one that matters
How you get there sets the price
Access is the single biggest lever on what a week costs — bigger than region, bigger than species. A float plane is not a surcharge on a drive-to trip; it is a different product.
Bar spans the middle half of published rates (25th–75th percentile); the ember tick is the median. Per person, per week, normalized to US dollars. Group counts shown beside each label.
Region by region
Where the cheap weeks are
Northeast Manitoba carries the highest median at US$5,820; Southern & Central Ontario the lowest at US$351. Most of that gap is access mix rather than the water itself — the expensive regions are the ones you fly into.
Bar spans the middle half of published rates (25th–75th percentile); the ember tick is the median. Per person, per week, normalized to US dollars. Group counts shown beside each label.
How this was built
Method, and what it does not say
Every rate here was compiled from an operator's own published pricing and normalized to one comparable unit: US dollars, per person, per week. Canadian rates were converted, nightly and multi-night rates scaled, and package rates that bundle non-fishing components were excluded rather than guessed at. Hunting packages are excluded from these figures entirely. Where an operator publishes a range across cabins or seasons, we carry the range and use its midpoint here.
543 of the 977 operators we track publish a rate we could normalize. The rest either quote on request, publish images we will not transcribe as fact, or serve a market where a posted rate is not the real one. Groups of fewer than 5 lodges are not shown — at that size a “median” is one business's price wearing a disguise.
What this does not tell you is what any particular lodge charges, how its rate compares to its neighbours, or which way it has moved. That belongs to the operators and to the people who pay us for the comparison — it is the Season Pass. This report is the shape of the market, not a price list.
Our sourcing and verification rules are on the methodology page. Found a rate we have wrong? The corrections contact is there too — we would rather fix it than defend it.