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Tikchik Narrows Lodge is an Alaskan sport fishing lodge located between Tikchik Lake and Nuyukuk Lake in the Wood-Tikchik State Park. The lodge was built by Bob and Gayle Curtis in 1969. The Lodge was sold to Bud Hodson in 1986, and is currently in operation today.

Tikchik Narrows Lodge is only accessible by plane, and is more than 300 miles from Anchorage, AK. The lodge operates with floatplanes, three Havilland Beavers and one Cessna 206. The lodge’s fishing program includes the entire western watershed of Bristol Bay and the Kvichak River system. All Pacific salmon species as well rainbow trout, arctic char, arctic grayling, and dolly varden can be caught in Bristol Bay. Notably, Tikchik Narrows Lodge operates in the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, the fourth largest in the country.