Alaska Fishing Lodge

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own land and a fishing lodge in one of the most wild and beautiful parts of North America.  Painter Creek Lodge amazing.

New Feature: Follow this link to find updated fishing reports from Painter Creek Lodge.

And here's a video to help you get a feel for the all that Painter Creek Lodge has to offer:
 


The lodge is in full operation, so if you would like to learn more about fishing one of the most remote and beautiful fishing destinations on earth, please call Jon Kent at 907-248-1303 or visit the Painter Creek Lodge website.

And here's all the scoop on the lodge listing:

	Address:   PAINTER CREEK LODGE, ALASKA Out of Area ,   ,
	List Number 08-4176 Status Active Listing Price $ 3,800,000 Space Avail. SqFt 4000 Land SqFt   Acres 15.00 Subdivision None Possession At Closing Sold Price   Sold Date
Property Type Commercial Zoning Resort Area 15 - Other Subdivision None Flood Zone Unknown Possession At Closing	Water: Well Sewer: Septic Comm/Loc Details: Inventory Inc. Construction: Stick Exterior: Wood Roof: Metal Air Conditioning: None Heat: Other Financing: 1031; Cash

LO: North 40 Realty

Provided as a courtesy of Bob Peters North 40 Realty 80 West Broadway Suite 206 Jackson,WY 83001 Office phone - (307) 733-4959 Cell phone - (307) 690-8996 bob@north40realty.com http://www.north40realty.com/

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Painter Creek Blog:

As the summer of 2011 goes by, I'll be putting up photos and reports from Painter Creek.  

7/10/2011:

I can't adequately express how special a place Painter Creek really is.  It's only accessible by airplane (or boat if you want to travel 100 miles of open ocean and then 50+ miles up a river with rapids and gravel bars and boulders, eetc.).  While there, you fish for four of the five kinds of Pacific salmon (kings, chum, sockeyes, and silver, or cohos) and beautiful resident and sea-run Dolly Varden.

While it is for sale, the lodge is also fully operational and you can book trips if you'd like by visiting the Painter Creek Lodge website or calling the owner, Jon Kent, at 907-248-1303.

This first set of photos is of a lynx that spent the evening in front of the lodge a couple nights ago.  The lodge sits at an elevation of about 400 feet above sea level in an environment of cottonwood trees, meadows, and alder/willow brush.  There is an incredible variety of wildlife, with the big mammals made up of Alaskan brown bears, wolves, moose, caribou, wolverines, and lynx.

The grassy lawn in front of the lodge is the nesting site for a colony of ground squirrels.  Like ground squirrels in many wild environments, these guys multiply rapidly through the summer mating season.  Being at the bottom of the mammal food chain, however, they also make a very attractive target for both winged and four-legged predators.

Here's what one of the ground squirrels looks like normally:

Here's what the lynx looked like while standing guard over one of the squirrel holes (just to the left in this photo):

And here's the lynx just managing to catch one of the squirrels:

It's a tough life up there.  I've watched raptors flash down out of the sky and haul these squirrels away, and I've also seen a wolf camped out about where the lynx was.  Despite all the predation, the ground squirrel population seems to do extremely well and there are always plenty of them when the lodge opens each summer.

The photos came from Paul Tickner, who guides anglers during the summer at Painter Creek Lodge.  According to Paul, they watched that evening as this lynx stalked and captured two of the ground squirrels.