GENERAL INFORMATION
Yukon Big Game Outfitters concession is known for its giant area which we operate in. Our area is home to many of the big game animals found in the Yukon. We are licensed by the Yukon Government. We hold the exclusive rights to guide clients in a commercial operation for outfitting area #20; the largest outfitting concession in the Yukon, and the largest in all of Canada. It is located in south-central Yukon, northeast of Whitehorse and covers approximately 14 million acres or 21,600 square miles of prime wilderness hunting ground. We have been operating in this area since 2012 and we have yet to see all of the area. The camps we hunt are remote and accessible only by bush plane or horseback.
*Donated to Kaska & Teslin Tlingit First Nations
*Donated to Kaska & Teslin Tlingit First Nations
Millions of acres have never been touched, leaving the landscape, game, and genetics much the way they were 50 years ago. Our area overlaps the Traditional Territories of Kaska & Teslin Tlingit First Nations; their people have been here for thousands of years. The majority of the meat is donated into the remote communities, given to the schools, elders, and family’s that have relied on the moose and caribou diet. We encourage sharing and supporting this custom.
Firearms Information 1-800-731-4000
All clients must register firearms before bringing them into Canada. You should fill out the form before arriving at the airport to save time. The cost of registering is approx $50.00 payable at the airport.
*Do not bring any pistols *
Web Site: www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca
Canada Border Crossing Services 1-800-438 -7020
Contact Lucy Perillo for assistance with criminal records, such as DUI’s.
Website: www.bordercrossing.ca
Travel: Flight arrangements
Travel Time ask for Wenda or Jocelynn 1-866-774-6144 or 1-250-774-6144
Email @ wenda@traveltime.ca or jocelynn@traveltime.ca
**If booking with Travel Time, they can provide you with Travel Insurance and pricing.**
Travel Insurance:
We highly recommend all clients purchase travel insurance due to unforeseen events & trip cancellation policies.
**If booking with Travel Time, they can provide you with Travel Insurance and pricing.**
Travel Guard International 1-800-826-5248
Website: https://www.travelguard.com
Hotels:
(Please book by February 1 st of hunt year) Mention Yukon Big Game Outfitters for our rate: Sternwheeler has started to let us block off rooms for our clients for the season; they hold them for some time but there is no date for a deadline as to when they release the rooms to other visitors. So be sure to book as soon as possible as rooms can fill up quickly with visitors.
Sternwheeler Hotel (867) 393-9700
Address: 201 Wood St, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2E4
*Ask for Outfitters discount rate*
*All hunters will need a passport. Without one, you will not be able to enter Canada*
FEES
PREPARING FOR A HUNT WITH US
Once a client has contacted us by email or phone to see if our hunts offered are a good fit for what they are after, then a date is penciled into our schedule for the client and considered locked. We do require a deposit sent by wire, mail-priority post or express post to us. Please do not send a payment by regular mail as it takes too long and we do not have time to run to the mail and chase it for weeks.
Once your deposit arrives we send you a contract by email that outlines what we have agreed to for dates, game and the style of hunt. We can send you blank contract before the deposit but we will not fill it out or hold the hunt longer than 7-10 business days without a deposit.
We will also send you a general information form with phone numbers and important details that will help you along in preparing to hunt with us.
A general Equipment list is also provided. Your gear is restricted to one weapon and a total weigh of 60 pounds.
Hunts are normally booked 2-4 years ahead with us with few limited spots for a current years hunt sometimes available.
A hunt taking place with in one year will require a 50% deposit. Hunts booked further than one year out we require a 30% deposit. All Deposits are non refundable but can be given to a family or friend in replacement should the client be unable to come on the booked hunt with our approval of the new hunter.
We highly recommend trip insurance for all unforeseen events. All current year fall hunts must be paid for by April 1st of the hunt year and no later than May 1st.
Spring bear hunts must be paid 90 days in advance in full and no later then 60 days.
Hunting & Fishing License & Tags:
Hunting & Fishing license must be purchased by your self online only, which we provide the link on our web site and in our booking contract.
They must be bought after April 1st, and no later then May 1st of the hunt year for hunts taking place between April and October of that hunt year.
With winter wolf hunts /trap line tour trips being the exception, as those trips take place during the winter so they can be purchased the month before you are joining us. The online license is an easy system and must be done by the client, an email will be required by the client to do so. We ask you to please email us a copy.
After your license is bought and we receive a copy we will purchase your tags and have them ready for you upon your arrival. Your tags and hunting licence must be carried on you at all times in the field while hunting.
We recommend everyone purchases a fishing license even if you don’t plan to fish; they do not cost a lot and in the event you decide you want to pick up a rod you the can.
Travel & Hotel:
Your destination is Whitehorse, YT Canada, and is the capital city of the Yukon.
The Yukon is a hunter friendly destination and clients enjoy their time in the city.
A passport is required for all foreign clients to enter Canada.
Hotels are blocked at the start of the year by us for your convenience and hotels must be reserved by the hunter at the hotel we recommend. They must be booked no later than end of April. It’s recommended your commercial flights are also booked at the start of the year in January no later than May.
We ask all Clients arrive 2 nights before there scheduled hunt date, this allows for any mishaps with flights or your luggage arriving late and a day of rest before your trip.
The same is recommended for the outgoing trip, two days in your hotel, to ensure there is no delayed bush charter returns due to weather. There is cases where some hunters choose to come 1 night before the trip and leave 1 night after the trip with us and while we do not recommend this we understand some clients have busy schedules to attend to. It’s also important to understand the bush charters are booked a year out for you and there is often a group of hunters for the flight so they cannot be delayed.
When you arrive in Whitehorse the hotels we use offer a complementary shuttle service to and from the hotel, or a cab can be waved down at the airport. Shuttle’s are always found to the right when you walk out the small airport doors and taxis are found to the left when you leave the airport at the end of the building about 200 yards.
We will be communicating with you by cell or email upon your arrival to Whitehorse, usually a text or email from our client is recommend to let us know they have cleared customs in Vancover and are boarding the last leg of the flight for Whitehorse; and then again once you have arrived in Whitehorse and have your gear.
We recommend booking your commercial flights through Travel Time 250-774-6144 as they have a good handle on the local airlines and times servicing Whitehorse, and most importantly the time needed to clear customs. Most of our clients arrive through Vancover, BC with a few coming through Edmonton & Calgary, AB catching a second leg of their flight into Whitehorse. A few choose to drive to our base each year; Those directions will be provided at the time of interest.
Once in Whitehorse:
Whitehorse has some fine food and gifts shops and a few local sports stores for the last minute items that you may need. Everything can be found a short walk from the hotel, other than Canadian Tire. Hougen’s Sports Lodge and Coast Mountain Sports are found on Main Street, 1 block away in most cases.
During August for our sheep hunts we may meet some of our clients in town if we are not in the field. In September when our larger groups of clients come in and our work load in the field increases we are all in the field. This is where Sandra will communicate with everyone one as they start to arrive via email and text.
We will split our hunters into two groups to allow for the moving logistics. Some will depart by wheel plane to catch a float plane shuttle at mid point, and some by float plane right from Whitehorse. You do not get to choose what plane this is our logistics to help organize the hunts.
We will communicate the point of departure with our clients once they arrive, and our clients will catch an organized shuttle with the charter company from their hotel the morning of the hunt; generally departing between 8:00am to 12:00pm.
In some cases for the smaller hunt changes we have our expiditer take you to the plane. This has worked very smooth in past years, and we will be on top of communicating with you once you have an arrived. Your free to hang out for the day while your in town with no stress and go through your gear. Your hard gun cases and suit cases are left in the hotel as the hotel will have a room you can lock them in. Absolutely no street cloths or anything not needed to hunt will be brought on the hunt. Planes have carrying capacity’s and we must be with in the weights to be organized. So packing your gear and weighing your gear for the hunt including your self in advance is important. Gear is weighed before it’s loaded for the plane so plan and pack with this in mind. Hockey bags and large duffels don’t work. pack your gear in two medium water proof duffels and your day pack separate with your weapon in a gun sock not a soft case for your departure to our camp out of Whitehorse please. In the event you over the 60 pounds excluding your weapon, we can, if notified make room for the one or two that need room for an extra 10 pounds. Do not stress about this either we are here to guide you and coach you along to ensure a great experience.
Once you leave Whitehorse in the charter plane you will meet Shawn, Sandra, or one of our staff to help brief you for your guide and the camp you will be hunting.
Your guide will likely be waiting for you and ready for your arrival as Shawn will be working non stop with the guides to be ready for your trip.
Weapons can be checked in most cases from the camp.
Tips are best taken with the hunter and given out at the camps to the crew.
Shawn will check on you from time to time and have daily check in with all guides while your hunting. All of our guides carry some sort of Satellite communication for emergency use and business use. If you need to communicate back home while you’re with us please bring a satellite phone or a Garmin Inreach works best.
Many of our camps have generators and are set up very comfortably and clean. We take pride in our camps and equipment so be assured we are looking after you.
If any problems or issues arise Shawn is usually able, weather permitting, to get into see you: whether it be a axe, boat motor fuel, or horse feed, Shawn is always serving the camps while the hunts are taking place.
At the end of your trip on your last hunt day you will return to Whitehorse the same way you came out to camp.
In most cases your meat will be donated to the communities and shared unless you have drove to visit us. Our camps are far to remote and its far too complicated to organize taking a full moose out of the country.
If there is room in some cases we encourage taking 40 pounds of meat home with you.
Your horns and capes will be looked after professionally; salted, turned, fleshed, dried, with skulls boiled and cleaned. We try really hard to have these shipped out by December 1st. We can recommend a taxidermist we trust and have had a great success with should you need.
We sell our hunts on an all Inclusive price and can share with you if you reach out. We can also break down the cost to help you see the fees.
I like the all inclusive price so a client knows from the start what to expect when looking at comming to hunt with us.
WHAT TO BRING
**Hunting gear max 60 pounds. All gear will be weighed at point of boarding aircraft. In the event you're over by 15 pounds please notify us in writing well before your hunt!
**Alcohol is at the hunter’s responsibility and discretion. We are ok with a night cap or evening sip, but we do not supply nor do we have soda pop in camp.
**Communication: Our guides have inreaches/sat phones for check-ins and emergencies. If you wish to talk to the outside world, please bring your own inreach or ask us about renting a sat phone.
TERMS & POLICY
YBGO has a no refund policy on cancelled hunts, hunt deposits are transferable to replacement hunters that are approved by outfitters, less 10% administration charge. Terms: 30% down to book a hunt further than 18 months, 50% due no later the 1 year out from hunt date, and final payment due by April 1st of hunt year. Hotels and flights should be booked by January of the hunt year, no later than February (see outfitter for recommended hotel and flight times). Travel Time 250-774-6144 for commerical flights to Whitehorse (ask for Wenda). All hunt cost in USD currency. The oufitter must be aware of the life size Moose and Caribou capes at the time of booking, extra fee will be added for these services.
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Yukon Big Game Outfitters Ltd.PO Box 38Whitehorse, YT. Y1A 5X9
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Yukon Big Game Outfitters Ltd.PO Box 38Whitehorse, YT. Y1A 5X9