If you're up in the Cranberry Portage region anyways, I'd look at Wekusko Falls Lodge a little further east. It's still a drive in lodge and has fantastic fishing, with several great lakes nearby. I'm off next week and had talked to Bryan last Fall about coming up to fish Reed Lake. But the Manitoba lockdown forced me to make alternate plans.
This would be the season to go, as the lodge is usually packed with Americans from the ice belt. There's all sorts of videos of the lodge on YouTube as guys like Jason Mitchell and the AnglingBuzz crew go up there regularly. Good luck and enjoy your trip.