"My father began taking me and my brothers fishing in 1969 to Sabaskong Bay Lodge on Lake of the Woods, and we would return yearly to fill up long stringers with fat walleyes, and to enjoy delicious shore lunches. A visit to Sabaskong Bay Lodge on Cedar Island became a yearly fishing tradition. At the time, Sabaskong Bay Lodge (the first lodge built on Lake of the Woods, around 1920) was one of the only fishing lodges available, and in some ways it hasn’t changed. Although there is a beautiful new lodge and some new cabins now, it’s amazing that a lot of the original log cabins are still there. And the nearby islands are in the same natural, pristine state they’ve been in since the glaciers receded. And not far is a small island with a Thunderbird nest built by First Nations as a place from which to send their dead to the next world. Even though I live in Los Angeles now, decades later I still love to return to Lake of the Woods; I’ve traveled to many places around the world, but I have yet to see anyplace more beautiful. And the fishing is just as good as I remember it when I was seven years old."

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Roger Nygard