Last month we told you that Ryan St. John of Henik Lake Adventures (867-857-2587; www.heniklakeadventures.com) in Nunavut is shifting his business away from polar bear hunting to focus more on central barren ground caribou. We have received several subscriber reports about these hunts, and much like the reports on St. John’s polar bear hunts, all of the caribou reports have been very positive. So, we asked St. John for some more details on his plans and how he is organizing these expeditions.
St. John says he’s been taking about 40 caribou hunters a year and producing a 100 percent success rate. He plans to increase that number to 75 to 100 clients. He hunts the Qaminirjuaq herd, which has a population of half a million animals, and he says he is the only outfitter in Nunavut hunting this herd. Mind you, this is a different herd from the one in the Northwest Territories, where the wildlife department slashed permits two years ago. St. John is far away from that scenario and hunts way over on the eastern side of Nunavut out of Arviat, on the coast of Hudson Bay.....
