A popular Canadian fishing show is making its first-ever Nunavut stop in Cambridge Bay this summer, exciting both community members and especially one of the show's two hosts.

An Alberta-based crew from The Dimestore Fishermen television program will cast a few lines into lakes near the western Nunavut hamlet sometime this summer. The episode from that shoot is expected to air in the first half of 2009.

"As a fisherman growing up as a little boy, you think about the far reaches of the world to go fishing," co-host and producer Jim Hoey told CBC News in an interview.

Cambridge Bay, with a population of about 1,500, is a good 2,065 kilometres northeast of Hoey's Calgary headquarters. The hamlet is 1,700 kilometres west of Iqaluit and 850 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife.

Part of the community's attraction, Hoey said, is in its name: Cambridge Bay's traditional name, Ikaluktutiak, loosely translates into "good fishing place" in the Inuinnaqtun language.

"Hey, when it says good place to fish, gathering place for the fish, that's a good place for The Dimestore Fishermen to be," he said.

This week, the hamlet office contributed $10,400 to the shoot. Economic development officer Wayne Horsman said that money will help raise the community's profile across North America, as the show airs both in Canada and the United States.

"We would never be able to afford the actual exposure that we're going to receive from an initiative of this type," Horsman said.

"It's not strictly just a fishing show. With them, we're doing a community profile. It will dovetail into the fishing show."

The Dimestore Fishermen show, hosted by Hoey and Chris David, has been profiling lake, ocean, river and ice fishing locations in North America for the last nine years.