Tips for a Successful Trip

Food and Menu Planning

When planning your food list, sit down with your group and organize each meal, people usually bring too much food. It is advisable to bring some emergency food, canned or dried in case you don’t eat as much fish as you had planned, or you are delayed by weather for a day. This seldom happens but it’s good to be prepared.

Freeze bottled water to put in small coolers (less than 40 quarts). This will keep your food cool until you get to the camp. Lake water at our camps can be used for drinking if boiled.  Pack your food supplies in medium size boxes with lids and your personal gear in small duffle bags. Reels and hooks should be removed from rods and rods should be put in small holders or taped together to avoid damage. Dip nets should be placed in plastic bags and wrapped to avoid getting caught up on other gear.

All trash will be flown out of the bush with you. There is a good supply of garbage bags at the camp for garbage and recyclables, please double bag all garbage. Avoid large plywood boxes or double door coolers as they are difficult to load onboard the aircraft. Groups of one to five are allowed 100 lbs. per person, and groups of six or more are allowed 150 lbs. Should you exceed that, your overload will be flown in later that same day, weather permitting at a cost of eighty cents a pound.

Suggested Food and Supply List

Equipment List

Outpost Camps are Provided With

What Not To Bring

Your Flight

All flights are scheduled approximately 2 to 3 weeks in advance of your trip and you will receive an email with your information package that will include your fight time. If we do not have your email on file, we will send your information package by mail. There is also information about motels in our area, bait suppliers and a map of how to get to our base. Please make sure you pass the information on to all members of your party.

Fishing Gear and Guns

Rod cases should not exceed 6 feet 6 inch in length and 5 inches in diameter. If your fishing rod is longer then this it will be removed from its case.  

No guns are permitted on our aircraft except during moose hunt season. 

Fishing Tips

All fishermen have their own techniques and preference of tackle, these are just some hints and suggestions to get you started. 

Walleye/Pickerel

Lures

Bright colored sinking jigs or floating with a bottom bouncer, chartreuse is always a hit with Uncle Andy, Rapalas and crawler harnesses.

Bait

Live bait is helpful, small to medium minnows, leeches or worms.

Strategies

Each lake is different, try trolling or drifting with jigs and live bait. Walleye tend to hang out on the sandy / rocky points and shoals or in the moving water at the mouth of a stream. Overcast and light wind are always helpful as well as fishing at dusk and dawn. Try different depths, walleye can be found from the surface down to 40 feet, depending on the time of year and water temperature.

Northern/Pike

Lures

The bigger the better, floating Rapalas and spoons. Steel leaders are a must.

Bait

No bait is necessary, but sucker minnows can be helpful.

Strategies

Weed beds and shallower water are where pike are generally found, cast into the weeds. Pike are fast moving so trolling at a decent pace will still allow you to hook a big one.

Lake Trout

Lures

Spoons, jigs and spinners, sinkers or down riggers.

Bait

Minnows, sucker minnows, smelts and worms.

Strategies

In spring when the water is still cold the lake trout can be found near the surface, trolling with a spoon works well. As the water temperature rises and the lake turns over the lake trout go deeper, trolling with weighted line and a spoon or jigging deep will work.

Speckled Trout/Brook Trout

Lures

Small spoons, small spinner, or flies.

Bait

Worms only! Speckled trout lakes are sensitive, never introduce live bait (minnows) to the lake, it could be harmful to the ecosystem. 

Strategies

Keep your lure moving. Speckled trout are an aggressive fish and will hit out of anger rather than hunger.