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The Yukon

One of the last great frontiers

One of the world's last great frontiers. Imagine a country the size of Spain with a population the size of a small UK town! A sparsely populated country where moose, bear and caribou way outnumber the human population. Stunning scenery, warm to hot summer days (with long daylight hours, almost 24 hours). Wildlife in abundance and amazing freshwater game fishing opportunities in this relatively unexploited and unexplored land. Famed for its short but heady Gold Rush Days 170 years ago , this country's amazing character is so eloquently captured in the poetry of Robert Service, a bank clerk from England who sought to make his fortune and who fell in love with this magical land. Those early explorers and prospectors suffered considerable hardships, but despite that they fell in love with this beautiful land. You can enjoy every aspect in comfort, thanks to the efforts of our tourism partners.

FLY In Fishing Lodges; These exclusive lodges guarantee you the best fly and lure fishing experiences. We offer two special and exclusive group departures in 2010. Kluane Lodge on Wellesley Lake offers superlative fishing for Lake Char, Whitefish and Northern Pike. Lake Char take streamer flies, large buzzer patterns and during calm evenings they rise to large sedge hatches in shallow bays. The biggest lake char caught on dry fly at Kluane in 2009 weighed 38 pounds!!! Expect good sport in the 4 to 24lb class. You will need an 8 weight outfit. They will of course take spoons too. The jumbo whitefish repond to mayfly patterns and buzzers. Whitefish here average from 2 to 8 pounds and are great fun on 5 weight tackle. Northern Pike are common in the 4 to 12lb range but pike on the fly are caught to 30lbs. Kluane is a catch and release lodge with one of the finest reputations in North America. Superb standards of comfort for a wilderness experience. TWO SPECIAL DEPARTURES - ESCORTED - IN 2010. JUNE 17th and JUNE 24th. 7 nights at the lodge full board, 2 nights in Whitehorse or Vancouver with optional extentions.

Multi-Centre Options.

Combine two or more lodges, extend your stay at Whitehorse, add Vancouver as a city stopover or include a few days Sturgeon fishing on the Fraser River. hIRE A CAR AND SELF DRIVE tHE rOCKIES OR TAKE A TOUR OF vANCOUVER iSLAND. There are many great ways to extend your stay in North West Canada.

Whitehorse and beyond…

Whitehorse is the characterful capital with the size and atmosphere of a small British town (population 22,000). Here you will find friendly bars, good restaurants and a variety of shops.

Within 10 minutes drive of the city you are in sheer, unspoilt wilderness. The scenery is simply stunning and the wildlife breathtaking and close. Moose, black and grizzly bear, caribou, mountain goat and dhal sheep, bald eagle and beaver are to be seen; many as you drive the gravel highways and roads between isolated communities and towns. This is a land to explore and enjoy with stunning scenery and the unexpected around every bend.

Our three fly-in lodges are exceptional; they open for only a few weeks in summer and provide good standards of comfort in a true wilderness setting. Fishing is as good as it can get and the scenery and wildlife unforgettable too. This is the ultimate in freshwater fishing; it is exclusive because of its isolation and it's worth every pound. Not cheap, but then the best rarely is. Fly-in Fishing provides the ultimate in exclusive angling and is unsurpassed. Self-drive add ons are one option.

High Country Inn. Whitehorse

A friendly hotel within a short walk of the centre, ideally located for exploring this historic and compact city.Bedrooms are en-suite and well furnished with air conditioning and colour TV. Hotel facilities include restaurant, bar/ restaurant, lounge and conference room. A well managed hotel offering high standards of comfort and service.

Other hotels available.

The Yukon Larger Than Life…

Statistics

The Yukon is the size of Spain with a population of just 32,000.
Summers can be hot with temperatures from 14 to 30 degrees Celsius.
You enjoy almost 24 hours daylight.
Bear, moose and caribou outnumber the human population by a huge number.
Wide open roads with breathtaking views and stunning wildlife; black bear, grizzly and caribou can often be seen feeding right by the highways between the tarmac and the tree-line!!!

PRICES From

£2405pp Whitehorse - lodge - Whitehorse 7 nights. (excludes flights from UK and hotels enroute)

10 days including flights and hotel in Whitehorse from.. £3235 AC Economy or £3725 TCook Premium

Worldwide Game Fishing Locations Within Yukon

Wolf Lake

Wolf Lake Lodge

Moose are to be seen most days, bald eagles breed here and bears are around.

Cabins are simply furnished with 2/3 beds and bathroom. Oil stove for heating if required. The main lodge has a rustic lounge with video/TV and a dining area serving wholesome home cooked meals. There is a large screened gazebo with hot tub and bar to relax after a great day's fishing and watch the sun set over the lake.

Wes and his staff will provide good fishing advice. Wolf Lake is some 17 miles long with large backwater areas and ideal moose habitat. There are numerous stream inflows and this lake is the headwater of the fabulous Wolf River.

Boats are used for fishing and accessing the numerous hot spots and of course the Wolf River. 14 foot aluminium with 10 to 15 hp outboards. Fuel supplied.

"A bald eagle screaming a challenge from the top of a pine tree, two moose, cow and calf, wading into the shallows to graze on emerging shoots, an arctic grayling sucking your Klinkhammer from the river's surface and the impossible iridescence of the fish's sunlit dorsal fin as you bring it to hand, the wrenching take and powerful fight of a double figure lake char hooked on fly, a blood red sinking sun at midnight, turning the darkening sky and snow-capped mountains beneath to purple, the unspoilt peace of it all. Dreams are made of this."

Colin Pacitti

John Wilson's Tackle Box

My JW 10 ft Ideal Masterline, 4pc travel spinning rod dealt with the big lakers admirably, in conjunction with an ABU 6500 multiplier and 30lbs test braid. A 9 weight Cortland CX Saltwater 4 piece travel fly rod, Cortland XC, large arbor precision fly reel and Hi D fast sinking line was perfect for the lakers. For the grayling, a 4/5 weight floating line outfit is perfect.

If you love wild, open places to fish, where save for your float plane's engine, you won't hear a westernised sound all week, but you'll come across moose, caribou, beavers, ospreys bald eagles etc whilst fishing, then allow me to recommend Canada's rugged Yukon Territory.

The beautiful Wolf Lake is situated amidst dense forests of pine, cottonwood, spruce and a myriad of wild flowers, just a 100 miles east of the capital Whitehorse. I've yet to visit a more beautiful, pristine and fish packed location on this planet, where monstrous lake trout [my best for the week weighed 33lbs] can be caught on both fly and lures, as can acrobatic pike from shallow streams entering the lake, plus grayling averaging between 1-2lbs in the fast flowing Wolf River. What's more, your lodge [great home-cooked food] is just a hundred yards from the boat dock. And you get to share it all with few others. Only 6-10 anglers stay at Wolf Lake [which is the size of Scotland's Loch Awe] at any one time.

Tincup Lodge

Tincup Lake

A high altitude lake nestling in the Ruby Mountain range, it's hard to imagine anywhere more picturesque. Excellent standards of comfort, catering for up to 6 anglers, this lodge offers superb fishing for lake char. Arctic grayling and white fish.

A short (optional) fly-out provides excellent inconnu and northern pike. Your hosts are Larry (an accomplished float plane pilot) and Jose Nagy who prepares gourmet meals.

The scenery here is staggering, with great hiking, wildlife viewing and the highest standards of exclusive lodge comfort, in addition to superb fishing. There are mountains to hike for those who are reasonably fit. All cabins are well furnished and have showers and toilets. The main lodge provides excellent cuisine and an honesty bar. Some tackle can be supplied.

The lake is very deep but the south and north ends have inflows and outflows and large shallows with nice defined drop off's. It is here that we catch large lake char on dry flies during the evening rise. These areas also produce excellent white fish on wet fly. There are numerous inflows around the lake where grayling feed. The lake char are never far away, patrolling the drop-offs. One of the many prime places is an in-flowing stream and gravel bar right outside the lodge.

Here at Anglers World Holidays we have so many delightful memories; fly fishing large streamers at the inflow in front of the lodge as the sun sets briefly on the horizon with a 20 pound char fighting every inch of the way. Lake char rise for sedge on an evening rise in the shallows at the north end of the lake, rises almost where ever you look. I once had a char actually take my fly the instant it touched the surface (on my back cast !) Char after char from 4 to 15 pounds on a dry fly on a late summer evening is never to be forgotten, the peace and tranquility only broken by the frantic fight of a beautifully marked lake char. These wild, solid fish never seem to know when to give up. Expect to see moose, bald eagle, beaver and bear (black and grizzly).

A higher altitude lodge, fishing for char, white fish and grayling is generally good from mid June to late August. Inconnu and northern pike excellent from mid July to late August.

Kluane Lodge, Wellesley Lake The Yukons finest fly in fishing.

Full board
Fly-in by float plane from Whitehorse
(200 miles away)

From only £2506 pp includes 2 nights in Whitehorse and 7 nights at the lodge ( flights to Whitehorse additional).

Well furnished cabins with shower and toilet, this top lodge caters for 16 anglers in style and comfort. A wood stove provides heat on cooler evenings.
The main lodge serves great food and also has a lounge, bar, pool table and small tackle shop. They usually have a stock of highly effective black/purple bunny leeches but we advise take some too. Black and green, black and purple, even pink and white catch well. A little silver flash seems to help.
This lake is easy to find your way around and has lots of shallows to wade and reefs and drop-offs to slowly troll.

The lake is 11 miles long and 6 miles wide. The fly fishing here is exceptional and lodge owner Brian Dack has a personal best char of 43 pounds on a dry fly (large sedge) from a reef close to the lodge. Moose, bear, wolves and eagles are to be seen here. A real wilderness lodge with exceptional fishing and high standards of food and comfort.

Boats

Fish from and use to access reefs and features. 14 foot aluminium with 15hp outboards, echo sounders and VHF radios. Fuel supplied. Self use with lodge guide for information and advice.

Price Examples (per person)
7 NIGHTS(10 DAYS) £3725 PP 14 NIGHTS (17 DAYS) £6128 PP PRICE IS FULL BOARD AT THE LODGE, 2 NIGHTS EN ROUTE AND PREMIUM CLASS FLIGHTS TO VANCOUVER. ECONOMY TO WHITEHORSE. SPECIAL DATES JUNE 17TH AND 24TH 2010. Extra night stopovers in Whitehorse and Vancouver optional. Self drive tours with car hire optional.

Fly Fishing The Yukon.. Tackle Tips by John Horsey.

Travelling with rods.. Hardy & Greys make excellent 4 piece rods that pack well and make travelling easy.

Lake Char and Northern Pike.

9 weight 9 foot Hardy Zane or Greys Platinum XD Saltwater 9 weight 9 foot.

Reel, Hardy Demon 5000 or cheaper option is the Greys GRXI +

Arctic Grayling , whitefish and dry fly fishing for lake char.

5 weight rod. Greys Streamflex 10 foot.

Reel, Hardy Demon 5000 with 3 spools (take a pair giving 6 spools).

Lines:

WF5F River

WF7F Lake

40+ Airflo F Lake