The Restaurant

Anglers with a taste for fine dining will be delighted to learn this isn’t the usual fishing lodge fare. We take food as seriously as we do fishing at South Fork Lodge, serving high-end traditionally “American” cuisine, prepared by chefs who care about quality and creativity.

Locally sourced scratch cooking inspired by the owner’s love of great food and executed by some of the country’s most renowned chefs.

From the huge and hearty breakfast menu (our biscuits and gravy will change – or end – your life!) to home-style fried chicken, perfectly grilled steaks, blue ribbon BBQ and other culinary wonders you’d not expect at an Idaho fishing retreat, visitors to the lodge are in for three great meals a day. Lunch is served on the river and dinner is served riverside, family style. We work hard to make meals at the South Fork Lodge as memorable as the trophy trout.

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Chef Bianco

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Chef APL

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Machete Bar

There may not be a better lodge bar anywhere in the world than the Machete Bar, situated inside South Fork Lodge in eastern Idaho. From fine spirits that will make any whiskey drinker go weak in the knees to some excellent regionally crafted beer and wine, anglers will come for a drink and stay for the atmosphere.

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Our Accommodations

A stay at South Fork Lodge is an event in and of itself. Yes, our fishing is world-class, but it’s perfectly matched by our comfortable and homey accommodations that might surprise guests coming to eastern Idaho from afar. There’s simply no other fishing lodge like it in the United States.

The Fishing

South Fork Lodge is the West’s best fly-fishing retreat. The South Fork of the Snake River boasts between 5,000 and 6,000 trout per mile, many of them trophy-sized cutthroats, rainbows, browns and rainbow-cutthroat hybrids. From late spring well into fall, fly fishers using South Fork Lodge as a home base have the chance to catch truly large, wild trout.