Looking for a good fight, or just a great meal? Anglers can fish for more than nine top species in the Northwest Territories.

Visitors and residents over the age of 16 and under 65 require Northwest Territories fishing licences, available by mail, from government offices or at lodges and convenience stores across the territory.

The summer temperature hovers around 20°C (70°F) with very little rain.

Long, isolated stretches of beautiful scenery in Summer, ice roads in Winter: be prepared

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Ice Fishing

In spring, the ice fishing season heats up. Grab some rays on a quiet lake beside a warm fire, close to a cozy lodge. In April and May, ride to a remote lake on a snowmobile, or travel to your ice fishing vacation by dog team. On the Arctic coast, jig for char in a warm tent, through a hole in the ice. Elsewhere you can fish for trout, pike and pickerel on inland lakes. A warm spring sun, a cozy fire and a warm welcome at a nearby lodge makes for a perfect ice fishing trip. It's a Canadian pastime made legendary in the Northwest Territories.

Ice Fishing

Enodah Wilderness Travel/Trout Rock Lodge

Packages include transfers to and from Yellowknife Airport by van/Aurora Express, accommodation in main lodge w/ cabins, Internet, hot tub, satellite TV, home cooked meals. Enjoy ice-fishing, snowmobiling or learn to shoot with an experienced guide, while you await the appearance of the awesome northern lights in the...

Chuck Gruben's Guiding and Outfitting

Chuck Gruben is an active Inuvialuit hunter and trapper very knowledgeable in the Tuktoyaktuk area. Customized tours (hiking, bird watching, fishing) available on request. Equipped for small vessel business charters, MED-A certified. Big game hunting by snowmobile or boat. Barren Ground grizzly, muskox, wolf & wolverine. Sport hunts conducted from...

Yellowknife Tours

Aboriginal ice fishing demonstration and lunch. Take a snowmobile out on Great Slave Lake where we have set up a traditional ice fishing net. Pull up your catch and enjoy your fish feast in our comfortable cabin in the wilderness.

Rendezvous Lake Lodge/Arctic Ocean Tours

Fish at a traditional Inuvialuit camp, 250 km (152 miles) east of Tuktoyaktuk, in the Anderson River area. Spring ice-fishing. Naturalist tours, hiking, ATV, custom designed.

Modeste Outfitting

Dene guide Morris Modeste offers a lifetime of experience as a hunter, trapper and fishing guide on Great Bear Lake. World class fishing, camping, and wildlife viewing excursions. Share the Dene way of living on the land, evolved through generations of traditional knowledge. Comfortable wilderness accommodations consist of 10' x...

Jackson's Arctic Circle Tours and B&B

Learn to trap, shoot, prepare and smoke meat in traditional Dene ways from a Dene trapper who has spent his entire life in the bush. June - Sept. Boat, motors, fuel included. Ice-fishing. Dene guides available.