Kevin Spots a Caribou Crossing to Camp

Caribou At Camp

Wolves take down Woodland Caribou better quality video

Hi everyone
A few weeks ago I was out ice fishing with my son Hayden on Nungesser Lake.
(yes we caught some nice walleye and some big whitefish and had a two really big pike bight us off)
We came in the night before, got up had breakfast and headed out to ice fish. As soon as we came around the corner , right behind camp, I saw two black wolves had a Woodland Caribou down.
We took some photos and video. We followed the tracks about 6 miles down the lake and the two black wolves had hearded that Caribou all the way down keeping it out of the bush. They went right past the front of the camp- probably about the time we were cooking breakfast. If we had looked out the front window we would have seen them. It would have been awesome to see the fight. I’m sure that Caribou didn’t give up easily Another set of about 40 Caribou trampled another path across the lake and also went right by the front of camp -probably in early morning.
The next morning Hayden and I walked about 50 yards from the camp to the back side of our island. We video taped the wolves who had been joined by two grey wolves and one mottled.
They weren’t friends and it showed. Plenty of fighting.
It took me a while to learn how to run my editing program to shorten the video so it wold be small enough to upload

It is not for everyone but this is what the wilderness and nature is really about.
It wasn’t a good day for the Caribou but it was a very good day for the Wolves.

I hope you enjoy

Sweptember 5-12, 2009 Nice Caribou

Derocher group September 5-12

Derek and the guys caught some nice fish. Not as many big pike as they usuallly catch but plenty of 35 - 40 inchers. They found a few spots where the walleye were stacking up waiting for the fall whitefish run. one down past middle narrows, the other by Ferret bay. Both spots produced the entire week with many walleye over 26 inches and several pike over 40 inches.

Remember the water was about 2-3 feet above normal and the weather was much warmer than usual so the water temp wasn't nearly as low as usual. We were catching walleye by the hundreds in 4-8 feet of water.




I had discovered a small lake that we could get into with the high water.
(I also went into another small lake with Ed Janz that produced several pike over 40 inches and several hundred walleye per day - scroll down for that story)
Derek, Jim and the guys went in a few days and caught over 400 hundred walleye each day and several 40 inch pike including a 43 inch beauty.
They said it was the best walleye fishing that they have ever seen in 20 years fishing all over Canada.

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They were fortunate enough to see this Caribou swimming and get close
enough for some great photos. Plus they saw a cow moose. Nungesser Lake is one of the few places in the world where you can see Woodland Caribou on a farely consistant basis.