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Coopers’ Little Minipi Lake Lodge—an overview

This first part of this commentary is taken from of an article written by Al Raychard for a series called Our Man in Canada Archives. It appears in full on flyanglersonline.com.

Little Minipi Lake is “part of a complex system of shallow tea-colored lakes and connecting thoroughfares, riffles and rapids that drain 250 square miles of pristine wilderness 60 miles south of Goose Bay Labrador. … Of a handful of major drainages were giant brook trout are found, the Broadback, the Eastmain and Rupert in Quebec, the Ashuanipi and Eagle in Labrador and God’s in Manitoba among others, the Minipi is unique. While large Brook trout are caught elsewhere, Minipi specimens average… four to 5 pounds…. No place on the planet has produced more record Brook trout.”

“First explored by the late Lee Wulff who pronounced it, ‘the finest book trout fishing in the world,’ “the Minipi trout fishery remains as healthy today as it was in the early 60s when Wulff discovered it.  The reason for that is the way the fishery has been managed by Camp owners. Since the late 1960s only two fishing outfitters have ever operated within the entire Minipi system.  ...When Little Minipi Brook Trout Camp was purchased by Labrador Outfitters in 1996 its owner, Harvey Calden [an American bush pilot] took those rules even further.  Today all fishing is with barbless hooks and no fish may be retained.”

(from kennebecriveroutfitters.com)

“There are Arctic char and all of the 25+ inch Pike you can catch (if you are so inclined – boredom?) With two private lakes roughly 9 and 3 miles long respectively, with countless coves and inlets), a mile-long “Deadwater,” miles of river, and a productive “Riffle” within a walk of the camp, little Minipi has something for everyone.”

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