Anticosti Island
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From: awalk228
17-Oct-18
I'm leaving tomorrow morning for my yearly, week long trip to Anticosti Island for deer hunting. No service there for the most part. So when i get back I'm expecting to see deer down all over the place on this site! Good luck gentlemen, be safe and as always, shoot straight!
From: TT-Pi
17-Oct-18
Take a walk on the wild side! Good luck.
From: spike78
17-Oct-18
Sounds like a good time! Bow or gun?
From: awalk228
17-Oct-18
Rifle. Would love to do bow there but I think it's only a small section of the island you can do it on and i don't think its any where near we stay.
From: xi
17-Oct-18
Awalk, how do you do in October. No BS, I know people who used to book trips for a couple private outfitters on the island and they wouldn't book for October at all. What camp do you go to ? Good luck, pics or it didn't happen.
From: awalk228
17-Oct-18
Really well! This is my 7th year going and the first two years I got 2 bucks. Then the next 2 it was a doe and a buck and the last two were one doe and then a doe and buck. They had 2 or 3 really bad winters in a row that put a big dent in the population but the last two have been really light and they are bouncing back big time. We stay at camp nord (north) and the outfitter is Pourvoirie Lac Genevieve. The camp is beautiful, its at the old lighthouse. I dont know what it is but the meat from deer on that island is the best I've had when it comes to venison. Could be because of what they eat and also no predators to worry about.
From: awalk228
17-Oct-18
And i will definitely (hopefully) post pictures!
From: Passthrough
17-Oct-18
Awsome Awalk! Goodluck. I went once when I was 17 on a sea trout fishing trip. It was such a beautiful place. This is when I found out bogs are not joke. My cousin lost his shoes and almost himself.
From: xi
17-Oct-18
Awalk, do you book with SEPPAQ ? Went there once, best part was watching the Atlantic Salmon spawning run and the foxes trying to figure out where the shots came from so they could feed on the guts. I thought about a December hunt but they are to expensive for the return.
From: bowandspear
17-Oct-18
Wish you a great trip awalk!
From: longbeard
17-Oct-18
Sounds cool! What could someone expect to pay for a trip like that?
From: awalk228
17-Oct-18
Passthrough- the bogs are definitely nothing to play with!! There are also sink holes all over in the clear cuts. Xi- no Seppaq, it's the outfitter I mentioned previously. Each camp has certain territories to hunt. Which is great because there's not a ton of pressure and a surprise of seeing another hunter. And the fox are tough man! I got followed twice last year for about half a mile by them. They aren't stupid that's for sure. Bowandspear- thank you! Longbeard- it's around $2000 for everything.
From: Will
17-Oct-18
Have a blast - take and share pic's with "us"!
From: awalk228
17-Oct-18
I will for sure!
From: awalk228
30-Oct-18
Just to update you guys on my trip that i just took. I saw 44 deer the entire week and not one was a buck. Got a doe which I'm happy with because you go there for the meat not a,trophy. That being said. It sucked not seeing anything with bone coming out of its head!
From: bowandspear
30-Oct-18
Well it's Fall, it's deer season and you got to harvest a doe. All sounds well to me :)
From: xi
30-Oct-18
Awalk, good times. Any Salmon running ?
From: awalk228
30-Oct-18
Where we stay isn't near the Jupiter River so I'm not really sure. But that's definitely a goal of mine. Fly fish that river!
From: Will
31-Oct-18
Awalk - sounds like a fun trip regardless. And as BS said, you got one, so that's cool! Ditto Xi... Fly Fishing up there, or well east on the Gaspe or Mirimichi would be long term hopes for me. Less for the quality of fishing (good, but not the point) more to know I was fishing water the likes of Lee Wulff pioneered his wild ideas like "20# on #20 hook" and stuff like that. So much fly fishing history on those waters of Eastern Canada. It's like fishing eastern NY in the Catskills and Daks or maybe even the spring creeks of PA. Just a lot of history for fly nerds :)