Well, the Ontario spring bear hunt has almost started.  We’ve been busy getting the stands and hunting sites cleared of underbrush and have done some baiting already as our first hunters start the week of May 13th.  We’ve got a limited number of hunters which makes for some outstanding hunting opportunities.  

Our weather definitely isn’t cooperating as its below freezing and we now have about 8 inches of snow on the ground.  Weather is supposed to warm up this coming weekend, so it will melt the snow off quickly.

Believe it or not, its probably a good thing we’ve got snow as the bush is really dry and there isn’t a lot of runoff to raise the levels of the lakes.  The poplars haven’t even started to flush where we are.

Last week the weather was really warm and was causing lots of flooding on our logging road.  Since then our temperatures have plummeted with wind chills getting down to -37C.  We’re hoping that it doesn’t thaw out too quickly as bear dens get flooded out if early thaw and makes it really bad for newborn cubs and first time out of the den

Pickerel Lake Outfitters is now taking bookings for the spring and fall bear hunting season.  We take two to four hunters at one time for the six day hunt.  Give us a call if interested.

Our 2016 Fall Bear Hunts were a great success with 100% harvest rate of black bears.  We did get some great trail camera photos which we’ve published on the photos page.

We have a cancellation for this fall for a bear hunt.  Date is Saturday  September 17th to 24th.  If interested please call us at 807-543-3113. This hunt you’d be able to do a grouse hunt as well as season will be open.

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has made it official that there will be a trial spring black bear hunting season for the coming 2016 season.  We will be offering a spring bear hunt starting May 8th.  The actual opening date is May 1st to June 15th.

Call or email for details.

Here at Pickerel Lake Outfitters we are taking bookings for the 2016 Ontario Bear Hunting season.  Dates are as follows:

August 20th to 27th
August 27th to September 3rd
September 3rd to 10th
September 10th to 17th
September 17th to 24th

We limit to four hunters per week so dates fill fast.  Call Now.

We have our first groups for bear hunting and the bear hunt is going well.  In the first couple of days we’ve gotten 3 bears with the groups seeing 9 bears so far.  We’ve got a mom and cubs on one of the baits so we’ve stopped hunting that bait site even though we’re still baiting it.

We started last week with the first baits at all of our black bear hunting stands.  It takes about 8 hours, 31 miles on the ATV and 40 miles on the truck to get most of  the bear hunting sites baited.  Blueberries are just starting to turn blue and need more heat and sunshine for a great crop of them.

Should be a great year for the bears.

We are taking bookings for the 2015 Ontario Bear Hunting season.  Dates begin on Saturday, August 15th and continue through 5 weeks of hunts.

Call or email to book as bear hunting dates are filling fast.