Hunting Canada Blog

Leaving taxidermy in Canada is a mistake.  If your hunting in Canada do everything you can to bring it home. 

1. The USA Fish & Wildlife service will charge $75-$155 per trophy for stamping the paperwork to cross the border after the mount is finished.  Basically they are charging you for leaving it in Canada.  However if you bring it home with you there are no fees if the trophy accompanies the hunter.

2. Permit issues in Canada have been a growing concern.  To get a permit for say a black bear or wolf it can potentially add 3-4 months waiting for permits. 

3. Thanks to the exchange rate no taxidermist in Canada will be able to beat a US taxidermist in price.

Save you money and bring you trophy animal back to the USA.

Manitoba is famous for hunting and fishing.  Internetsportshow.com has recently put together a list of some of the best Manitoba Outfitters.  A few are as follows:

Grey Owl Outfitters - Lynn Lake Area, Manitoba

Budd’s Gunisao Lake Lodge - Gunisao Lake, Manitoba

North Star Resort on Knee Lake- A 51 inch northern pike and a 31 inch walleye! Those are just two of the trophy-sized lunkers taken at Knee Lake lately. Located just a 90-minute flight north of Winnipeg, North Star Resort on Knee Lake is one of Canada’s newest and finest world-class fly-in fishing resorts.

North Haven Resort on Utik Lake- North Haven Resort is a brand new facility on a remote island on the outskirts of Utik Lake in Manitoba, Canada. With a unique fly-in location, guests are immediately awe-struck by the surrounding natural environment and the architecture of the Resort.

Nueltin Fly-In Lodges Ltd.- Nueltin Lake, Kasmere Lake, Shannon Lake, Manitoba

Webbers Lodges- Dymond Lake, North Knife Lake, Manitoba

Pine Island Lodge- Winnipeg River System, Crowduck Lake, Manitoba

Rupertsland Guiding & Outfitting- Location William Lake, Katimik Lake, Manitoba

Lakeside Outfitters- Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba

Plum Lake Outfitters- Interlake Area, Manitoba

To view the all the outfitters visit the entire Directory of Manitoba Lodges and Outfitters.

Sioux Lookout, Ontario is famous for great fishing and great moose hunting.  There are many outfitters in the area like:

Northumbrian Resort
Anderson’s Lodge
Moosehorn Lodge
Pickerel Arm Camp
Northwood Outposts

The complete list can be found in the Sioux Lookout Ontario section of Internetsportshow.com.

Burntwood Lake Lodge - Manitoba Canada

The isolated forests of Northern Manitoba are home to some of Canada’s excellent big game hunting.  Burntwood Lake Lodge and area is well known for a successful hunt as well as a quality hunt. 

Black bear, which can exceed 7 feet and weigh in excess of 400 lbs. are taken each year.

At Burntwood Lake Lodge we use very knowledgeable guides, born and raised in the area, having hunted with us the past 14 years.  We hunt in excess of 1000 miles of shoreline on Burntwood Lake, as well as the river systems.  With little hunting pressure and in most cases no pressure at all,  Burntwood Lake offers an excellent opportunity for Trophy Moose & Bear Hunting.

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Birdtail Waterfowl Service

One of Manitoba, Canada’s best waterfowl hunting outfitters.  I have personally known the owner Paul since childhood.  I will post some pictures to Great Bear Lake on day on this blog.

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Overflow Outfitters in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan

The Hudson Bay area of western Canada, has produced some of Saskatchewan’s record class Whitetail Deer. Several Boone and Crockett records have been taken in the past few years.

They hunt on 12,000 acres of our privately owned farmland, plus approximately a half million acres of provincial land between the Porcupine Hills and the Pasquia Hills.

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Hunting the Yukon with Widrig Outfitters

Located in the Northeastern Yukon along the border of the N.W.T. The Outfiting concession is almost 4000 square miles of completely isolated, rugged, and scenic mountains.

This company is owned and operated by Yukoner, Chris Widrig. Chris has been in the guiding business for 34 years. He received his first guides license from the late outfitter, George Dalziel, in 1973. As with most young guides he started at the bottom, wrangling horses and learning from those with more experience. For many seasons in Northern British Columbia he polished his guiding skills, ran a trap line, cared for horses in the winter, and became a proficient bush pilot with over 4500 hours flying time. In 1986, he purchased his own outfitting concession in a remote corner of the Yukon Territory.

Widrig Outfitters 97 Ltd. provides all equipment, horses, shelter, professional guides, transportation, advice, and all local logistical support to non-resident hunters who want to hunt in our outfitting concession.

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Northumbrian Resort - Monster Bull Moose

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Cobblestone Black Bear in Ontario, Canada

If it’s hunting that you’re after, you will find that Cobblestone Lodge have some of the best Black Bear hunting in Northern Ontario.

Cobblestone’s bear management unit consists of 436 sq. kilometers with miles of access roads, some of which have been recently opened to areas that were not accessible in the past. Since 1991 they have limited hunters to 6 per week. This has insured hunters great success. The baits are set 3 to 4 weeks before the hunts begin in order to establish consistent hits. We use a variety of baits, such as beef scraps, bread sweets, grease and a number of different scent attractors.

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Nueltin Fly-In Hunting Lodge Caribou Hunting

Nueltin Fly-In Lodges Ltd. is excited to offer a very limited number of big game hunts in September of 2008.  Species available include Caribou, Moose, Black Bear and Wolf. In keeping with our world leading sustainable development and conservation practices these hunt/fish packages are extremely limited in availability.

The following picture was taken fall 2007.  More information…