Andrew Lake Lodge & Camps | Black Bear Hunting

Andrew Lake Lodge & Camps

Central Barren-Ground Caribou Hunt

Over the last 10 years, the camp had has averaged 98 percent success on caribou with rifle and bow hunters. The region has outstanding trophy quality, with many entries in Boone & Crockett Club and The Safari Club International record books in the Central Canada barren-ground caribou category. The camp is located 160 miles north of Yellowknife, just above the tree line in the centre of the late summer range of the Bathurst Caribou Herd. This herd now numbers over 500,000 animals.

HUNTING CONDITIONS

During the hunt, you will be transported by boat before walking inland to glass and hunt. The tundra here has many eskers and ridges allowing you to get on higher ground to glass. The eskers and ridges also provide good ground cover enabling hunters to get within rifle and bow range. The terrain is generally dry and rocky; no hip waders are necessary, however, sturdy waterproof hunting boots are a must.

Temperatures can range from 0 C to 20 in late September. The hunt is fully guided package with 6 hunting days. There is an option for a second Caribou and Wolf, Wolverine, and Ptarmigan can be hunted as well. In addition to excellent hunting, the lake provides great fishing opportunities for Lake Trout, Northern Pike, and Grayling.

ABOUT CAMP

Accommodations include comfortable heated wall tents with wooden floors. There is a larger Kitchen tent in each camp, where the cooks prepare and serve excellent camp meals, which often include caribou and freshly caught fish. All employees are committed to providing you with a quality hunt and have agreed to abstain from alcohol while in the camp. We in turn encourage all hunters to keep their alcohol to themselves and in their own tent. Every Client will be provided with the current hunting regulations and is expected to familiarize themselves with the regulations. Any client, who knowingly breaks these regulations, will be sent to Yellowknife at their own expense.

TRAVEL SCHEDULE

In the morning you will be picked up at the hotel in Yellowknife and transferred to the floatplane base for the 90-minute flight to camp, arriving early afternoon. The following week, the plane will leave camp early in the afternoon for your return to Yellowknife. You will be met at the floatplane base and escorted to the wildlife office to pay government trophy fees, and obtain export permits. You will then be transferred to the hotel.

IMPORTANT NOTES

There is a strict weight limit of seventy pounds of gear/liquor etc. per hunter, on the floatplanes. Any hunter having gear weighing in excess of 70lbs. will be charged an additional fee of $1.50/lb. Please bring a soft gun case for travel in the floatplane.

Each hunter will be required to obtain an export permit for any part of an animal that is transported out of the Northwest Territories.

FOR RESERVATIONS CALL (780) 464-7537