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Algoma Fishing Lodge For Sale — Dog Lake, Missanabie, Ontario
This is an established waterfront fishing lodge on Dog Lake near Missanabie, Ontario — 22 acres with 2,850 feet of prime lakefront in the Algoma District. Nine lakefront rental cabins, all well-spaced and directly on the water, sit alongside two owner's cabins on a property purpose-built for serious fishing guests. The lodge was 85% booked with deposits for the 2022 season at the time of listing — a forward booking rate that signals a functioning, demand-driven operation, not a speculative one.
The equipment package here is unusually strong for this price point: 15 rental boats with fish finders, 15 outboard motors ranging from newer 25hp units to 15hp electric-starts, a 2017 22-foot landing craft with 175hp, and a 23-foot tri-toon with 115hp. The landing craft and tri-toon are working assets that expand what the lodge can do operationally — large group transfers, supply runs, and guided excursions across Dog Lake. A 32hp John Deere tractor with blade, brush hog, and backhoe rounds out the land-side equipment.
The property also includes two licensed bear management areas — a holdable, licensable asset in the Algoma District that adds a meaningful hunting revenue stream alongside the core fishing operation. Current access is by boat, with a road to the property in place that requires further improvement — a future capital project that, once complete, opens the lodge to a broader guest profile and reduces logistical complexity for both operators and guests.
Missanabie sits in the Algoma District of Northern Ontario — one of the province's most productive and least-pressured wilderness fishing and hunting regions. Dog Lake is a serious walleye and northern pike fishery, and the surrounding Algoma highlands boast some of the most spectacular boreal landscape in the country. The area is accessible via Highway 651 off the Trans-Canada, putting it within range of Sault Ste. Marie to the south and within the broader Algoma tourism corridor.
For a buyer willing to improve the existing road access to the lodge, the upside is meaningful: a property that currently operates as a semi-remote boat-in experience becomes a more accessible drive-in lodge, widening the potential guest demographic and reducing the operational friction that comes with boat-only logistics. The infrastructure — 22 acres, 2,850 feet of frontage, 9 cabins, and a fleet already in place — is sized for a more active operation than the current access constraints allow.
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The lodge is situated on Dog Lake near Missanabie, Ontario — in the Algoma District of Northern Ontario. Missanabie is accessible via Highway 651 north of the Trans-Canada (Highway 17), approximately midway between Wawa and Chapleau. The surrounding region is classic Canadian Shield boreal country: clear lakes, mixed-wood forest, and extensive Crown land supporting healthy populations of walleye, pike, moose, bear, and other game. Current access to the lodge is by boat from the mainland, with a road to the property that the vendor indicates needs further improvement work.
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