Canadian Moose & Caribou Hunt

Our area is approx. 3300sq miles and covers vast wilderness areas with mountains, lakes, plateaus, timbered valleys and marshes; perfect habitat for Canadian moose, mountain caribou, mountain grizzly, stone sheep, mountain goat, wolves & wolverines. Due to limited access (float plane only) our area provides one of the best hunting areas in BC.

Access to the country is via float plane to our many lakes outfitted with cabins or wall tents with the use of either horses or boats to hunt for Moose, caribou, stone sheep & goat. We use trucks & four wheelers for some of our stone sheep and goat hunts.

We also offer exceptional fishing on our lakes and rivers with trophy quality lake trout, northern pike, bull trout, Dolly Varden salmon, grayling and rainbow trout in various locations.

The elevation ranges from 2000-5000 ft for our rivers and lakes and our larger mountains 7000 ft to 9000 ft.

Hunts offered include; Canadian Moose, Mountain Caribou (usually as a combo), Stone sheep and Mountain Goat. Wolf can also be added to any hunts.

We have a very experienced, hardworking & professional guiding staff working for us again this year. I truly believe we have the greatest core group of guides in the business. You can be sure that whatever guide you have you will be treated with respect, taken care of and hunting with a professional. This area will most likely be different than other outfits you may have been to in a couple ways; there will be alot of responsibility put on these guides to make things run smoothly in your individual camp. We are all a team and all work together striving to build this outfit into the most sought after in Canada. Many of the guides will stay up late helping other guides with capping or cooking a meal after they arrive at midnight. It will definitely be a 5-Star experience.

Our crew is in the service business, and tipping them is customary and greatly appreciated, but not required. What you tip a person is between you and them. For the guide and crew, 10-12% of the hunt cost is average, depending on their level of service. Your guide will normally get the larger portion of the tip, but if you have a cook or packer/wrangler on your trip (many of the hunters will), please don’t forget them. Our guides and staff work long hours and guide because they love it. Regarding tips, cash is always great, so are hunting/ outdoor products that you can part with, especially if it’s something they don’t have, break or need. Again, tipping is not required, but is greatly appreciated and customary. If you do not feel your guide deserves a tip, let us know so we are aware of the issue and can fix it for the next paying customer.

Make sure you bring sufficient funds for harvest fees if you haven’t prepaid them. (if they apply to your hunt.) Harvest fees need to be cash, bank drafts/cashier’s checks. Please note that GST/HST is also applied to your harvest fees. Cash is preferred!

You will have included money for your licenses and tags with your hunt contract. We will purchase those for you before you arrive in camp. If you want to purchase additional tags, you will need to let us know well in advance as you will not be able to purchase a tag once in camp under any circumstances, and we do not allow hunters to shoot game and then purchase the tag for it. After you receive your licenses/tags make sure you have the proper licenses before leaving for camp as we just can’t run back to town to get a replacement

The weather can change quickly in the mountains especially as the season progresses the likelihood of heavy rain, snow and fog impacting hunting will increase. We will do our best to work around weather however at times it can stop charter flights from picking up or dropping off clients from the field.

If you wish to leave early due to quick success, emergency reasons or business/personal reasons, then we may be able to quickly schedule a plane to come in and pick you up. You will need to pay the cost of the unscheduled flight (over and above the cost of your regular scheduled aircharter). It is helpful for to us to know in advance if you plan to leave early. We may be able to schedule you on another flight, saving you money and us time. We will do our best to work with you regarding this. It is easier on everyone if you’d stay for the duration of the hunt, but things happen and some people have tight schedules. If you ask for an early flight you will need to pay for it as the costs are shared with hunters arriving or planned flights in.

You will fly out on the last day of your hunt date. You and your guide will need to arrive back in camp the evening before. We will need to fill out a hunt report/declaration for you. Before you leave, sometimes we will take measurements and age your animal(s) for our records. And put our custom information tags on hides, horns, skulls so we keep them organized. If your hunt is delayed due to weather, one of the staff can help to reschedule your flights and contact your family. When you arrive back, you’ll be met at the float plane dock by our expeditor or other arrangements will be made. Arrangements will be prior made to get your heads inspected and or shipping/taxidermy done. Animals CANNOT leave BC to the Yukon unless done so best to plan and leave it with us. They will be taken care of

When you harvest an animal, you will be able to take whatever meat will fit on the commercial plane (approx. 50-70 lbs./person) or all meat if you drive yourself to our main camp. Bring game bags, pillow cases, compactor bags & or plastic containers that you can use for taking meat home with you. Coolers are available for purchase in Whitehorse. Some hotels will freeze meat for you also. More information will be provided upon booking or request.

We harvest roughly 20-25 moose per year and are not able to cut and wrap your moose for you before you leave. If you are taking moose meat with you expect to take “chunks” in bags to be processed when you return home.

The success of your hunt may very well depend on your physical and mental preparation and ability. Hunting here is the Real McCoy. You should be doing some type of physical exercise (aerobic and anaerobic) at least 3-4 times/week and more is better. If you really want to burn calories, exercise first thing in the morning and if time allows, once or twice a week, add a workout in the afternoon. Remember to eat healthy and balanced meals. With proper exercise and eating habits, you’ll be healthier, stronger, happier and a better hunter. The following are things we would suggest depending on your physical ability and age. In order to get aerobic exercise, you need to do these for at least 20 minutes straight, each time. we recommend 30-60 minutes/time.

Activities:

• Running or brisk walking – at least 2-3 miles.
• Biking (mountain biking)
• Organized sports – (Basketball, Hockey, Soccer or Tennis)
• Exercise machines (Stairmaster, Nordic Track, Treadmill, Bike)
• Circuit training w/free weights or universal system
• Aerobic type classes (Tai Bo, step aerobics, etc.) – don’t laugh as you be surprised as to how well this improves
  agility and coordination and the scenery is usually great.
• Make sure you hike around town or the local hills with the boots and pack you’ll be wearing on the hunt because if you have sore feet, everything else is secondary.

If you feel you’ll need to use a Satellite phone for business during the trip, I recommend that you purchase or rent a handheld satellite phone (Iridium or Globalstar) – contact Explorer Satellite (Andy Cool email. acool@explorersatellite.com). He can get you one and takes really good care of you for us.

I recommend getting a Garmin InReach and having it figured out BEFORE you arrive. They are really handy if all you need is texting or sending short email. Pairing it with your smart phone makes life easy! We are mostly using InReach devices now as they are the most reliable and cost effective. You may use the guides for periodically checking in at home. But they need to save them for our use.