Without question the success and reputation of Big Sand Lake Lodge as Canada's #1 Fly-in Fishing Lodge has been built by the professionalism, experience and big fish results their guides have provided their guests since 1987. The fact is a guide can make or break your fishing trip. It's great to have all the cushy amenities which their 5 Star Lodge provides but don't lose sight of why your spending all that money and time, travelling far from home. You're there to fish and that means you'll be on the water from 8-10 hours a day with your trusted guide.

To me, the word "GUIDE" exudes a quiet, understated wilderness sophistication. Believe me, Big Sand's guides have earned this stoicism. And regardless of the "experience of a lifetime" cliches you'll hear from other lodges, when you get the knife down to the pig's budding acorns, a guide's success and your trip is measured mostly by what is caught. That is the precise point with which these guides continue to spearhead far beyond the other fishing locales. The guides at Big Sand push the performance envelope so far they rewrite the parameters, and they do so without being one of those stereotypical pre-madonna's claiming to know it all. Their humble and contemplative, short on small talk and big on results.

These fisherman of men are not college students dabbling in the dreams of wilderness adventurers nor are they part-time boy scouts parading an Orvis patch on their shoulder. The men that carry the honor and prestigious title as GUIDE at Big Sand Lake are blazoned with the elements not only upon their skin but rooted deep within their character. Like the subtle curves of a woman's neck, they know this lake intimately. Their scars tell a silent story about fish caught and fish lost, behind the head casts gone astray and of a lifetime spent in the bush. They're about relentless endurance and calloused hands, witty humour and stories that would make any weekend fisherman's jaw drop in disbelief.

They're trappers in the winter, hunters during the spring and fall and define the word 'Fishing Guide' during the summer months. They're dialled in to nature, of which most of us have lost and they understand exactly what is happening on the water at any given moment often foreseeing an outcome before it unfolds. They do all this without a how-to-manual but react from the gut and that gut instinct, that primal 6th sense buried and silent within us city slickers, speaks to them clearly and they live by what they hear. This voice has driven others crazy but for some it has given birth to Legends. I invite you to journey north to Big Sand where you'll not only catch Big Fish but rekindle a lost spirit we all possess.