Chummy Plummer remembered as northern fishing lodge legend

Share To many people who visited Plummer’s Arctic Lodges over the years, Chummy Plummer was “the legend.” The third generation of Plummers in the northern lodge business, he followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, who built the NWT’s first fishing lodge on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake at Taltheilei Narrows in the 1940s. Chummy began guiding guests on the lake when he was 13 years old and got his pilot’s licence at 15, before he was able to drive. He grew the business to include lodges on Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake and Tree River. He considered one of his greatest…