Flame Lake Lodge is located close to Chapleau, Ontario. Chapleau is the called Black Bear Capital because we have the one of highest population of Black Bears in the world.

We run a fairly small bear hunt each year, only taking a certain number of hunters to harvest a sustainable number of bears. This approach ensures our continued high success rate in our Bear Management Area. Ideally, each bait site is hunted only once each year. Baiting starts well before your hunt and we always offer a choice of active sites. There will only be one or two hunting groups (up to 6 hunters in each) in camp at the same time. Our success rate is consistently between 80 and 100%. Almost all our hunters sight bears, but some simply choose not to shoot. If a site is being hit by a sow with cubs, we pull the bait and no one hunts there; although, we have had a hunter choose to sit for the whole week with no weapon, just to have to privilege of watching a sow with 3 cubs come in every day. This year, we are pleased to offer a new area, which has not been hunted for several years. Our hunting area is now 350 square kilometres. We are really excited about the potential of this new turf!

Starting late August, all hunts run Saturday to Saturday and include h/k cabin or lodge accommodations (lodge includes meal plan), boat/motor, active sites, bait, guiding out on first day, bear retrieval assistance and refrigeration of meat and skins. We recommend you bring a 4-wheel-drive truck and/or ATV.