Review Highlights
Winoga Lodge is operated by the Mansfield family (Dick and son Troy) out of Sioux Lookout and Sioux Narrows in Northern Ontario. Guests give it consistently strong praise, with real enthusiasm for the lodge, the owners, and the stay, and no notable complaints. The Mansfields are hands-on operators who are deeply involved in guiding and hosting. Dick fishes around 160 days a year, and both he and Troy personally guide clients on the ice and in the field.
Guests highlight several standout qualities: well-appointed, spacious accommodations (including cedar log cabins that sleep up to 10, with full kitchens, hot water, and wood stoves), excellent fishing for walleye, pike, and whitefish with fast action on both open water and ice, and warm, personable hospitality from the Mansfield family and their guides. The remote fly-in camps are recently built and surprisingly comfortable, with solar power and satellite internet. Guests also single out the food, particularly a shore-style fish fry of walleye, pike, and whitefish straight from the fryer.
Winoga Lodge is best suited for anglers focused on walleye and pike, whether in summer or the winter ice-fishing season, as well as hunters pursuing moose in Northern Ontario. It suits groups of friends or small parties who want comfortable, well-equipped remote accommodations without losing the wilderness feel.
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Paul Beasley
Dec 12, 2024
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Remote Shoreline Moose Hunting with Winoga Lodge
Moose season is always an exciting time of year, and hunting within the vast, beautiful landscape of Northern Ontario always makes the experience special. These feelings rang true for me this year after I was fortunate enough to draw a resident tag for Ontario moose way up north in an area that Winoga Lodge and co-owner Troy Mansfield operate out of. The morning brought with it a small drizzle, but all was still on track for our flight into one of Winoga Lodges' remote camps. A short twenty-minute flight later, across a vast landscape of lakes and forests, we arrived at one of Winoga Lodge's remote camps and were greeted by Troy and fishing guide, Greg Attard. Although we were here filming an episode for Canada in the Rough, this remote lodge was anything but rough. Recently built, the lodge had a fully operational kitchen and bathroom, 3 bedrooms able to house up to 10 guests, and a vast living space for gatherings all powered by both solar panels and a generator. There is even satellite internet available to help you stay connected to friends and family! I was truly impressed by this facility offering so many comforts of home despite being so remote. We took advantage of the opportunity to squeeze in some walleye fishing between the morning and afternoon hunts. Greg had never fished the lake before but it only took about ten minutes to find them and once we did, the action was nearly non-stop until we had our limit. I truly had mixed emotions as we arrived back at the plane base in Sioux Narrows the next day. I had nearly 600 pounds of incredible moose meat coming home with me so I knew I needed to get home fast but it was hard to leave the great people and experience that Winoga Lodge has to offer. It was a treat to spend the week with Troy and Greg and I can't thank them enough for sharing the experience together. I was sad to leave but with great memories and bounty, I began the drive back home with a smile on my face. Northern Ontario truly is a special place to hunt, and if you're looking to experience, for yourself, the great moose hunting it has to offer, be sure to reach out to Troy and Winoga Lodge!
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stjoeguy
Jun 21, 2024
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Lake St. Joseph 6/8/24 - 6/15/24
Our 2024 trip to the Winoga Lodge outpost cabin on Lake St. Joseph is in the books. We were up there June 8 - 15, 2024 and the basics of our report will pretty much match other NW Ontario reports for that time. The lake level was high normal, mosquitoes got stronger as the week went on, some rain, high winds several days, fish were scattered, no real large fish and we probably caught fewer than average.
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stjoeguy
Jun 14, 2023
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Lake St. Joseph 6/3/23 - 6/10/23
Our annual trip to the Winoga Lodge cabin on Lake St. Joseph is in the history book and it was great. The border crossing at International Falls was very smooth in both directions.
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rockape
Feb 28, 2023
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Winoga
I stay there every year that vaccination doesn't stand in the way (not Winoga's fault ever). Great camp, great people, and great guides. Their main camp is on Abram Lake. Nice that we can go to Sioux Lookout pretty quick for groceries, beer, etc. Cabins are awesome and so are the boats.
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x4flatfish
Feb 27, 2023
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Need information help
Great fishing anywhere around Sioux Lookout. Winoga has great guides, especially for muskie.
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Winoga Resort - Abram Lake?
Cant recommend Winoga Lodge enough. My first trip was the day after graduating high school back in 1989 and have been going ever since.
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prov1800
Oct 22, 2021
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Winoga Resort - Abram Lake?
They run a good place. Fishing in the whole Sioux Lookout area is great. They have a great place and take care of you.
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racer222
Mar 27, 2017
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Winoga Lodge Fishing Report and Video!
A good friend and I made the trip up there for the week of March 11th-18th. We were greeted by a spotless cabin with a warm fire raging in the wood stove. Troy, the owner's son, helped with gear and gave us a game plan for fishing the next day. We were hoping for some bigger lakers and the guys did not disappoint. Snow conditions were poor and the lakes were like concrete, but one day with a group of about ten on a lake popular for lake trout was nonstop from start to finish. We also got a day of fishing with Dick Mansfield.
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stjoeguy
Feb 5, 2017
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Good walleye fishing lakes without using bait
The good news about the Winoga cabin is that the cabin is very nice with solar power, indoor plumbing, internet, on a sheltered bay, etc and good boats with 15 or 20 hp Mercs or you can bring your own boat. Many days you won't see any other boats at the Winoga cabin since it's 25 miles to the nearest cabin in any direction. Why travel 45 minutes to good fishing when you can sit in the middle of it?
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IaDave
Jul 11, 2011
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St Joe reply
Will probably end up going to his island camp on Abrams in Sept. I have been there at least 10+ times. He is a great guy and will do anything for you and the fishing is not too bad there either in the fall.
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Hillbiehle
Jul 11, 2011
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Lake St. Joe / Winoga Lodge Report
Just returned from a great trip at Lake St. Joe. We booked through Winoga Lodge. Dick was a fantastic host and the cabin was the "Hilton". He took us to the outpost very early Saturday morning so we could get fishing quickly, took us around in his twin engine boat, fished the various reefs and marked up the map with other areas to check out. The counter said 53 fish the first morning. The majority of the walleyes were between 19" and 21" with many over 23"; the largest was 28". I do recommend trying out Lake St. Joe at least once; and without a doubt recommend Winoga Lodge.
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Lake St. Joe's Moose Hunt at Winoga Lodge
The lodge is fully equipped and even has a walk-in cooler and wifi. For such a remote location, this place definitely exceeded our expectations. We had a blast catching a pile of fish in a couple of hours. If you are looking for a great moose hunting location with some world-class fishing and great accommodations, you should really check out Winoga Lodge and Lake St Joe Adventures.
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Winoga Lodge - Sioux Lookout????
I have stayed Winoga an uncountable amount of time and I would not recommend any other place. The hosts, Dick and Jeannine Mansfield, are great people who will bend over backwards for you to make sure your trip is unforgettable. The main resort is on an island located on Abram Lake, with beautiful cabins, a sauna, a beach, and even a water trampoline. He also owns three outpost camps which are amazing. The cabins at all three are beautiful and fishing is great.
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Boat-In Outpost In Ontario
The Winoga Lodge outpost cabin on Lake St. Joseph is about as close as a boat-in cabin can come to a fly-in outpost cabin. It's a boat-in cabin 27 miles from the nearest cabin. I've stayed with both Winoga Lodge and Camp Lake St. Joseph and they're both great.
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Top Drive too camps?
The Winoga Lodge cabin is excellent and in the middle of great fishing, but it's more than $1,000. It's still a big lake, but at the Winoga cabin you're only fishing 5-10 minutes away.
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Where ya going this summer and why?
The June trip is to the Winoga Lodge outpost cabin on Ice House Bay, where I've been going since about 2007. Obviously, the fishing is great, but another aspect that I really enjoy is the solitude. The cabin is 20 miles from any other cabins. The feeling of having the whole lake to yourself is great.
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James Smedley (Ontario Out of Doors)
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Winter at Winoga Lodge
We've just returned from a monumental fish fry at Sioux Lookout's Winoga Lodge after a day on the ice. It was a savage feeding session centred solely on fish. No plates, no cutlery, no salad, no beans — just chunks of walleye, pike, and whitefish fresh from the deep fryer. We had arrived the previous night, and owner Dick Mansfield had shown us to our cabin — a voluminous cedar log structure that could easily sleep 10. It has a full kitchen and bathroom with hot water and baseboard heating, backed up by a wood stove. 'It's a little cramped for 2 of us,' I joke, as I survey the vast living room, dining room, dual bedrooms, and loft. Mansfield's home sits amidst a cluster of cabins along the shore of Abram Lake just outside Sioux Lookout and serves as a base of operations for their winter guests. There's an island in front of the house where a log lodge and a collection of picturesque cabins built in the 1920s accommodate guests through summer. He's one of those exceptional lodge owners who actually fishes a lot, about 160 days a year. In fact, he and his son, Troy, guide practically all of their ice-fishing clients. In an area where there's really more water than land, the Mansfields like to keep their clients away from the dangerous ice of narrows and current areas, and put them on fish. Ellis strikes first, catching a 17-inch walleye on a black tube jig. Troy and I follow with several fish. Of course it doesn't hurt that the action is nonstop, plucking whitefish, pike, and walleye from shallow water. Another full day on the ice passes all too quickly. I land a gorgeous 38-inch pike. Knowing that a half-hour snowmobile ride will deliver us to the warmth and hospitality of Winoga Lodge, I'm quite content to turn up my collar and angle into the blackening evening.
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