Your Canadian fishing and hunting outfitter. Out of North Eastern Ontario Canada.
Owned and operated by Lloyd and Diana Cotton

Resort Location:
Chapleau Ontario
Tel: 705-864-1846
Toll Free: 1-888-643-6678
Email: walleye@kanipahow.com 
Web site: www.kanipahow.com

(summer & winter mailing)
Kanipahow Resort
124 Creighton St
Orillia Ontario
L3V 6H7

Please make all cheques out to Kanipahow Resort and mail to our winter and summer mailing address. All balances must be paid 30 days prior to your arrival date. Personal cheque’s are fine for deposit and final payment. We do not except credit cards over the phone. Credit cards are required for cabin and equipment rentals as security deposit.

Your fishing and hunting outfitter of the north. Kanipahow Wilderness Resort & Outpost Camps.

Visitors from the US can operate a boat in Canada for 45 days without a boater’s licence

Boats & Motors: We have 14-foot and 16-foot Naden fishing boats. All are in great condition and have good quality swivel seats. Motors on smaller lakes are 5 hp we offer 9.9 hp on the larger lakes.  We supply life jackets for adults only. For those of you with young children please bring along a life vest for them that properly fits and is either Canadian Coast Guard or US Coast Guard approved. In Ontario, you can not use a floating seat cushion as a life preserver.

Remote fly-in and remote drive-in outpost camps are available for those of you wishing total privacy. All our remote camps offer one cabin per lake. All outpost camps are fully equipped housekeeping cabins. A complete list of available outposts can be found on our home page.

Flights,Cabins, Boat, Motor and Gas are included in our price.

Fish for Walleye, Northern Pike, Small Mouth Bass, Lake Trout and White Fish.

Kanipahow Wilderness Resort is nestled along the shores of the beautiful Chapleau River, right next to the Chapleau Game Preserve (world’s largest game preserve). Offering fully equipped modern housekeeping cottages including hydro, washroom facilities, linen, heat & air, along with a fully serviced camp ground for RV’s, tents and trailers. The Chapleau River with its 13 miles of boating and its many adjacent lakes produces excellent Walleye, Northern Pike and  Jumbo Perch. We also offer fall moose, bear and world class ruffed grouse bird hunting. Bring your ATV’s and explore the many miles of old logging roads as well as discover your own remote lake to fish.

Rental Equipment include: Boats, motors, canoes and fishing equipment. We have a excellent boat launch area for those of you wishing to bring your own boat.

Kanipahow Wilderness Resort is located in a remote area; 3.5 hours north of the Sault Ste. Marie Michigan border; 9.5 hours north of the Buffalo, New York border. 8 hours north of Toronto Ontario

Northern Ontario remote drive-in outpost camp on Embarass Lake, offers Trophy Walleye and Northern Pike fishing. With only one cabin on the lake.

• Cabin sleeps Min 2 – Max 8 people
• Rates:
• 2 to 3 people $595.00 per person
• 4 to 6 people $545.00 per person
• 7 to 8 people $495.00 per person
• all prices plus 13% tax.

Embarass Lake – Fish for Walleye, Northern Pike and White Fish

Embarass Lake is 4 miles long. The Embarass River runs through the lake and constantly supplies the lake with fresh water and food. This lake produces outstanding Walleye and Northern Pike fishing as well as Whitefish.

The river supplies the lake with an endless bounty of feeder fish such as chub, suckers and other baitfish. It also has perfect spawning grounds for Walleye, Pike and Whitefish thus the populations of game fish in this lake stays high and healthy with great numbers of both trophy and eating size fish. The constant flow of fresh water also makes the Walleye and Pike in this lake exceptional for eating.

Our deluxe cabin sleeps 8 people. There is hot and cold running water with a shower. This is a beautiful cabin with all the comforts of home and much nicer then you would ever expect from a remote outpost camp.

Sunday morning departure:

We leave Sunday morning at 8:00 am from our main base. You follow us in your vehicle to the parking location, your gear is then loaded into a trip and pull a short distance to the lake. From there it is loaded into boats and taken to the cabin. We go with you the whole way to ensure everything is in order at the camp. We return the following Sunday at a set time to help you back to your vehicle.

Drive-in outpost camp fishing on Moose Lake for Trophy Northern Pike. Only one cabin on the lake. So just you and your party.

Moose Lake Outpost

• Min 2 – Max 4 people
• Rates:
• 2 to 3 people $595.00 per person plus 13% Canadian Funds
• 4 people $545.00 per person plus 13% tax Canadian Funds

Moose LakeFish for Trophy Northern Pike & White Fish

The average size pike is 30 inches. There are many 36 to 40 inch pike being caught by guests, which weigh in between 12 and 15 pounds. There has been bigger monster Northern Pike up in the 48-inch range and over 20+ pounds caught in this lake. Moose Lake also has a high population of Whitefish.

You also have access via logging roads to 4 other great fishing lakes. These cabins are in a very remote area with lots of lakes to fish. How many you fish is up to you.

The clean comfortable cabin sleeps 4 people and is situated on the north end of the lake in amongst old growth pine with a beautifull view of the lake. The cabin is clean and fully equipped with refrigerator, stove, dishes and furniture.

This is the only cabin on the lake. Next best thing to a fly-in without the cost.

Sunday morning departure:

We leave Sunday morning at 8:00 am from our Chapleau main base. You follow us in your vehicle to the parking location. Your gear is then loaded into a trailer and pull a short distance to the lake. From there it is loaded into boats and taken to the cabin. We go with you the whole way to ensure everything is in order at the camp. We return the following Sunday at a set time to help you back to your vehicle.

Click on the link below for fishing and hunting regulations

• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resource Publications

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We are Lloyd and Diana Cotton your Canadian fishing and hunting outfitter. We have owned Midnorth Outpost Camps for several years and now own and operate Kanipahow Wilderness Resort. We have merged the two businesses together into Kanipahow Wilderness Resort & Outpost Camps. We now can offer our guests housekeeping cottages at our main base location along with remote fly-in and remote drive-in outpost camps.

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In 1952 the Pilon family staked their claim to wilderness lands of the Northern Ontario Territories and opened the doors to Kanipahow Kamps, which is now called Kanipahow Resort. The abundant wildlife and rich fertile waters of the Chapleau River produced a hunting and fishing camp which would become well known all over North America. Today the family tradition lives on. Their support of conservation and wildlife management over the years has allowed them to maintain the high success rate that their customers enjoy today. Expert fishing and hunting skills have been passed down to the new owners who invite you to come to Kanipahow Wilderness Resort for a hunting and fishing vacation of a lifetime.

Located on the south-east end of Chapleau Lake, Kanipahow Resort’ customers enjoy many miles of the famous Chapleau River and the many lakes which the river runs through. Walleye, Northern Pike and Perch are abundant while adjacent lakes and streams have healthy populations of Speckled Trout (Brook Trout). Kanipahow Resort is also at the doorstep of the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve which is the biggest game preserve in the world. Our location is called the Black Bear capital of the world. It’s easy to see why we have a high success rate for our Fall Black Bear hunt. We also see this success in our moose hunts.

Eaton Lake Walleye

Should you have any questions feel free to call or e-mail us. 1-800-643-6678    walleye@kanipahow.com   www.kanipahow.com

Summer and Winter Mailing address

Kanipahow Resort

124 Creighton St.

Orillia Ontario

L3V 6H7

 Your Ontario Black Bear Hunting Outfitter. Located in North Eastern Ontario east of Chapleau Ontario

At Kanipahow Wilderness Resort, Black Bear hunting has been a time-honored tradition for over forty years. We pride ourselves in having a world class Black Bear hunting resort. We are trained and experienced with Ontario Black Bear hunting techniques which have resulted in a 70% to 90% success rate for our customers. We have a large population of black bear in our area for two reasons. One being that we are located right next to the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve which is the largest game preserve in the world where no hunting or trapping takes place along with the fact we are in a very remote area of northern Ontario. The other is the fact that we have had no spring bear hunt in our province for the last 10 years only a fall bear hunt starting August 15 of each year. Because of this our population and average size is on the increase. Our black bears average in the range of 225 lbs with increasing numbers in the 300 to 400 lbs range. A few trophies of 500 plus pounds are taken from our area each year.

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Our hunts start on August 15 or the first Sunday after. They take place back in off of the old logging roads in areas were clear cut logging has taken place and in a area of good berry crops. This gives the hunter a good viewing, shooting area and the fact that the bears will be heavily feeding on berry’s and hazel nuts at this time of year. We feel that we can have 2 to 5 bears hitting most bait sites at any given time over a one week period. Most of our baited sites you can drive to with your vehicle to the area and some are ATV only access. Drive time to sites is 10 to 30 minutes.

We start baiting around the first to middle of June using the sites from previous years. We find that the baits start to get hit within a week to 10 days. We go once a week in mid to late afternoon for the first 3 weeks and then twice a week for 2 weeks working our way to every 2 days and then once a day the week before the first groups shows up. This we find puts the bears on a feeding schedule. Most bait get hit with in the first hour or two after being baited.

When you arrive we first get you settled into your cabin then we get all the necessary paper work completed. If you are arriving late after 6:00 pm please stop and pick up your bear tag at a sporting good store along the way. You my not be able to get one until the next day in Chapleau. We do not sell the bear tags at our location. Once the paper work is done and if time remains in the day, we will take you along with us to do the days baiting and start getting you familiarized with the area. At this point you and your group can decide were each person will hunt from, a tree stands can be put up at this time. Your hunt will start the next day. If you arrive too late on the first day we will do this the next morning leaving camp around 10:00 am. It will be your choice when you hunt, whether you hunt both morning or night or just morning or just night. Like any hunt you will find that the bears will start to come to the baits within the last hour or two before sunset and the bigger coming right before dark.

We try to make you part of the hunt as much as possible, we have found in the past everyone enjoys running the baits. So once we are sure you know your way to and from the baited sites, you will then be responsible for dropping and picking each other up along with baitting. We will sit a few miles away each night to help track and retrieve the bears after they have been shot. We will have the baits ready each day for you to take along with you. You will have two baited sites per person to bait each day, the one you are hunting and your alternative one. We suggest that you bring along trip timers, game cameras to put at both sites so that you know when the sites that you are not at are getting hit.

When your bear is shot we take pictures at the kill site (don’t forget your camera) and take it back to camp for more pictures. We then skin the hide out to the way you want it. We suggest that you talk to your taxidermist and find out the way he wants to see your hide when you bring it to him. We then cut the back straps and tender loins off. The front shoulders and hind quarters and ribs are then cut off. All the meat is left on the bone. If you want you can de bone the meat from this point? We then freeze the meat. You will be required to have coolers big enough to transport the meat and hide.
For a list of what to bring and what we provide please go to Contact Us on the Tool Bar and then down to Policy and Information Manual go down to what to bring. We ask that you go through the whole manual for further information. Should you not be clear on anything please feel free to ask.

For a list of refences please contact us.

We are your North Eastern Ontario trophy moose hunting outfitter.

Kanipahow Resort hosts an autumn Ontario Moose hunt for resident and non resident hunters. We offer two Archery tags for anyone wishing to purchase a fall hunting package. This would include 1 Archery Bull tag and accommodation for a maximum of 4 to 6 people at either our main base location or one of our remote outpost camps. This hunt would take place in WMU 38. For those of you applying through the draw system for a tag. Kanipahow resort is located right at the four corners of WMU. 31, 32, 35 & 38 making for easy access to anyone of these hunting Zones. WMU 31 and 32 boarder the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve making for a large population of Moose and Bear right out the back door of our main base.

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Our accommodations include full housekeeping cottages. All you would be required to bring is your hunting, food and drink, pillow, sleeping bag and a change of clothes. We also have excellent fishing right out from the camp. So don’t forget your fishing gear. For a complete list of what to bring go up to the Tool Bar and under Contact Us go down to Information and Company Policy and read through.

For those of you who enjoy Duck hunting we also have excellent duck hunting not far from the resort right on the Chapleau River. The area around the the resort also offers world class Ruffed Grouse and Sprouse Grouse hunting. So don’t forget the shot gun and bird shot.

Again, because of the game preserve, the population of moose is high and Kanipahow Resort enjoys a very high success rate.

Our cottages fill up fast for opening week of the gun season, so book early

Please call for pricing on our moose hunt.

Click on the link below for fishing and hunting regulations

• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resource Publications

Northern Ontario Grouse Hunting

Hunt starts September 15 of each year.

Ontario Moose and Black Bear are not the only game to hunt around Chapleau. There is a thriving population of Ducks, Partridge, Ruffed Grouse, Spruce Grouse and Rabbits. The area around Chapleau is world famous for small game hunting. Partridge, Ruffed Grouse, Spruce Grouse and Rabbits are extremely common and easy to hunt. With miles and miles of logging roads to hunt right out our back door, it is easy to limit out before lunch.

Ontario Duck Hunting

Hunt starts September 10 of each year.

Millions of ducks start their migration south and use the Chapleau River for a resting area. There are many different species of ducks. Most spend Spring and early Summer raising their young on northern lakes and ponds on the Arctic Tundra. The sparkling clean water and the natural food source result in the biggest and the best tasting ducks in the world. Flying 2000 miles south toughens them up. You should get them in the north while they’re tender.

Click on the link below for fishing and hunting regulations

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resource Publications

Our fly-in outpost cabin on Eaton Lake offers fishing for Walleye, Northern Pike, Small Mouth Bass and Lake Trout. Our cabin is the only one. No other cabins on any of the back lakes. A piece of paradise all to yourselves.

• Cabin Rates: $795.00 per person plus 13%
• Minimum party size of 4 people
• Cabin sleeps for 4 only

When you fish at Eaton lake, you also get access to Hoof Lake and Trout Lake. Eaton Lake has excellent Walleye, Smallmouth Bass and Northern Pike fishing. It’s a short walk to the boat on Hoof Lake where you can spend the day catching lots of Northern Pike. To the south is Trout Lake, which has great fishing for Lake Trout, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass and Northern Pike. Eaton Lake is a beautiful scenic lake set in high rolling hills and tall pines.

The cabin sleeps 4 comfortably. Natural wood siding and knotty pine interior makes it blend into the natural setting of majestic Red and White Pine trees. A fireplace with glass doors provides safe “cheery warmth” on cool days.

The cabin has bunks for 4 people and foam mattresses for your comfort. One bunk is of double bed size. Other features include a good quality 3 burner counter top stove, gas refrigeration, running water and gas lights. (all to help you “rough it”). A shoreline table and BBQ are set for your cook-outs. We have the finest quality marine equipment for your safety and enjoyment.

This is an excellent lake for those who are adventurous and like to portage to other remote lakes to hunt down trophy fish.

For fishing and hunting regulation click on the link below

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resource Publications

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