I was invited to come film at Spatsizi Wilderness Lodge in the amazing Spatsizi wilderness park. I have never been to a place like this in BC, it’s literally 2 million acres of protected, untouched wildness.
You arrive in Smithers and from there you take a 1.5hr float plane ride out to Laslui Lake where the Fishing Lodge is located. Each morning you’re assigned a spot where you’re going to fish for the day within the park or just outside it.
You hop in a float plane each morning to a new location surrounding the lodge, be it a lake or river system.
Due to the nature of the fishing (float planes) all the gear had to be weighed along with the guests before we got into the planes which made taking only the essentials the only possible route for filming. It also meant that there was no going back if you forgot something because the plane would drop you off then leave till the pick up at the end of the day. It really made for some careful planning and checking and rechecking each night when I was going over gear for the next day.
In all my years filming fishing and wilderness films I’ve never been to a place like Spatsizi. Not only is the scenery like nothing I’ve ever seen, the fishing is unbelievable. In one river system we were filming for about 30 minutes and literally every cast there was a fish on or a take at a fly. At one point we just cut off the hooks and just watched as cast after cast the fish would come up and take our flies.
It was truly remarkable and I’ll never forget this place.
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