Within a remote and rugged landscape, Nunavut promises the fishing trip of a lifetime. With up to 24 hours of daylight, casting for trophy-sized pike and arctic grayling is uninterrupted by darkness. Today fishing lodges and full-service communities are spread throughout Nunavut.
Nunavut features some of the most exotic and highly prized
big game animals
on Earth. Big game hunting is a part of Nunavut's tourism industry, for good reason. … In addition, there are plenty of small game animals, such as arctic hares, ground squirrels and ptarmigan.
Nunavut is
home to the world's northernmost permanently inhabited place, Alert
. 15. Quttinirpaaq National Park is the second most northerly park on Earth. In Inuktitut, Quttinirpaaq means “top of the world.” That sure makes sense!
It's official:
unusual Atlantic salmon catch confirmed in Clyde River
, Nunavut. Science has confirmed what fishermen in Clyde River, Nunavut, have been saying for decades: Atlantic salmon do make their way to the hamlet on Baffin Island north of the Arctic Circle.
- Arctic Char. No other freshwater fish is found as far north. …
- Lake Trout. Lake trout are distributed widely throughout the major river and lake systems of mainland Nunavut in the Kivalliq and Kitikmeot Regions. …
- Arctic Grayling.
- Naujaat (Repulse Bay)
- Auyuittuq National Park.
- Sirmilik National Park.
- Ellesmere Island.
- Pond Inlet.
- Cunningham Inlet (Somerset Island)
- Iqalugaarjuup Nunanga Territorial Park.
- The Northwest Passage.
Can you ice fish in Iqaluit?
Combining the pleasure of driving your own snowmobile and going ice fishing, this program is a favourite for true fans of ice fishing. Leaving Iqaluit early in the morning to travel approximately 40 km, your snowmobile will glide across breathtaking scenery.
- We're the biggest province or territory in Canada. …
- We have the longest coastline in Canada, too. …
- We're the youngest province or territory in Canada. …
- We have four official languages. …
- It can get hot in the summer! …
- There are no roads to Nunavut. …
- 3 out of 4 narwhals call Nunavut home.
Holiday traditions are different in the Far North. Instead of gold, frankincense and myrrh, it's muktuk, caribou and arctic char.
Unvaccinated Public travellers and Isolation:
Authorization to travel to Nunavut can be obtained by completing a
14-day isolation period
at a Government of Nunavut Isolation site in either Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton or Yellowknife.
Several herds, totalling more than 750,000
caribou
range across all three regions of Nunavut. The barren-ground caribou subspecies (rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) is the most popular land animal to be hunted in the territory and the migration patterns of these herds are well known to local Inuit hunters and guides.
- Quality Caribou Hunting. in the Canadian Arctic. …
- Quality Caribou Hunting. in the Canadian Arctic. …
- Quality Musk Ox Hunting. in the Canadian Arctic. …
- Quality Caribou Hunting. in the Canadian Arctic. …
- Start your adventure today! …
- Quality Musk Ox Hunting.
Nunavut Lakes –
2 Lakes
in Nunavut.
Where can you fish for Arctic char?
A circumpolar species, they also inhabit the waters of
Iceland, Greenland, Scandanavia, Russia, Alaska
and, of course, the rest of Canada's northern fringe. Char are anadromous by nature, and in Nunavut they spend their summers in the Arctic Ocean and Hudson Bay before venturing upriver to spawn and overwinter.
Is Baker Lake in the Arctic Circle?
| Baker Lake ᖃᒪᓂᑦᑐᐊᖅ Qamani'tuaq | Website www.bakerlake.ca |
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How do you get arctic char?
- Spinners that work to lure arctic char include Blue Fox Pixies that have either orange or pink centers.
- If you are fishing for non-spawning char in a river or ocean, use a stripping retrieve. This draws the fly perpendicular across the current in short and erratic motions which will attract the fish.
