Portland Creek Hunting Fishing

note: The following reviews predate the numeric rating system and are not included in this outfitter's overall rating.

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outfitter review submitted by: Michael J Clough Sr on May 2 2010

Species Hunted: Moose, Woodland Caribou

Game Quality: Excellent

Accommodation Quality: Excellent

Camp Condition: Excellent

Food Quality: Five Star

Guide Experience: Excellent

Other Personal Experience: Excellent

Overall Impression: Excellent

Recommend: He's the Best

Reviewer Comments: Hi, I've hunted with Aster (4) times now, and would love to return as many times as I can. You will enjoy your stay in the camp's. Food is excellent and lot's of it each day.

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outfitter review submitted by: Roland Metivier on Nov 2 2008

Species Hunted: moose

Game Quality: Good

Accommodation Quality: good

Camp Condition: good

Food Quality: very god

Guide Experience: excellent

Other Personal Experience: very good

Overall Impression: very good

Recommend: yes

Reviewer Comments: Passed on a small 5 point bull on the first day. Took an 11 point 36.5 inch bull on the second morning. I was the only hunter in camp with the guide and cook for the week. Walked every morning and through the course of the week saw 75 carobou, 1 trophy bull and 1 good sized bull 5 other smaller bulls. 15 moose 2 small bulls and the one I shot and the rest cows and calves. Hunt was Oct. 5-12 guide cupped hands over mouth and called in the 5 point. I had a great time.

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outfitter review submitted by: Kendall Dace on Oct 7 2008

Species Hunted: Moose

Game Quality: Good

Accommodation Quality: Very good

Camp Condition: Good, modern

Food Quality: Very good

Guide Experience: Excellent

Other Personal Experience: Very good

Overall Impression: Very favorable

Recommend: Definitely yes

Reviewer Comments: My camp/cabin was very remote. 4 hours in by track ATV. Log cabin, modern kitchen, hot shower, clean. Cook was wife of a guide, fresh baked bread and home cooked meals, delicious. I began seeing moose 500 yards from the cabin. Started hunting first day at 9:00 AM and shot my bull at 10:30 AM less than a mile from the cabin. Saw other moose also. My two hunting partners both shot bulls. That camp is more expensive and less hunted. Only about 1/2 dozen hunters per year. No locals. It is in the extreme upper part of Western Newfoundland. The most abundant moose population in Newfoundland. Also good caribou stagsa. Asters other cabin in the area about 45 minutes away by ATV had good success also. First day they opened the cabin door and shot two bulls at 7:00 AM. Aster Caines is honest and a good person. Runs a good outfit. Our guides were all very experienced and live on the coast in that area. They keep a tablet of kills in the cabin. 100% success over the last five years. Aster has many references to call. There is an excellent meat cutter, packager in his town who will cut wrap and freeze overnight for a fair price. I definitely recommend Aster Caines.

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outfitter review submitted by: G Cote on Oct 3 2008

Species Hunted: Moose

Game Quality: good

Accommodation Quality: good

Camp Condition: good

Food Quality: excellent

Guide Experience: excellent

Other Personal Experience: very good

Overall Impression: good hunt

Recommend: yes

Reviewer Comments: Hunted opening week of rifle season 2008. Passed up a shot on a decent bull on the first day. Saw mostly small bulls and cows the rest of the week. Saw 27 moose total in 5 days. Shot a 6 point bull on day 5. I was holding out for a bigger one but didn't want to go home with nothing. Only 2 of us in camp and the other hunter got a 12 point 37" bull on the last day. Guides worked very hard. Walked lots of miles every day. Good boots and raingear a must. Excellent cook, good people, look forward to going back someday.

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outfitter review submitted by: A.e. Newman on Oct 23 2007

Species Hunted: moose/woodland caribou

Game Quality: poor

Accommodation Quality: minimal

Camp Condition: poor

Food Quality: very good

Guide Experience: one excellent/other poor

Other Personal Experience: adequate

Overall Impression: i threw away my money

Recommend: no no no

Reviewer Comments: "remote fly-in camp" was 2 miles from motel (by GPS). the locals use the area heavily and access by foot or ATV. one good guide (not mine). i pointed out game to the other completely inexperienced "guide" who said he was guiding "on the owners license". saw one cow moose and was encouraged to shoot a very nice caribou, for which i had no tag. (we'll get you a tag later!) owner is as crooked as a corkscrew. BEWARE.

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outfitter review submitted by: Barry Stephan on Nov 6 2006

Species Hunted: Moose/woodland caribou

Game Quality: OK

Accommodation Quality: very nice

Camp Condition: good

Food Quality: excellent

Guide Experience: good to excellent

Other Personal Experience: good

Overall Impression: very good

Recommend: yes

Reviewer Comments: This was my second hunt with Portland Creek (last week of Sept 2006). Did not get a moose on the first hunt, passed on a small moose the first day of hunt then. That hunt suffered from unseasonably warm weather (2004) and then a hurricane came up the east coast. However, it was an honest hunt, (if you want a sure thing that is what a preserve is for)with capable, hard working guides, a damn fine cook, and an owner paceing on the dock when our float plane brought us out after being weathered in for three days due to a hurricane. So I went back. This time (2006) again weather wasn't the greatest. First morning hunt was in a thunderstorm. Weather was a bit warm (in 70s F. by afternoon). So after seeing total of four moose and passing on two spike bulls second day, when we saw a decent bull the third day, the hammer went down. Four hunters in camp, four hunters got a moose. Mine happened to be the largest, thirty inch outside spread, eleven points, with decent palmations. No whopper but with the weather warming and little action, felt pretty fortunate. As two of us also wanted to try for woodland caribou, we were taken out of camp to look for caribou. Saw a small stag and a few does but again, warm weather kept caribou in mountains and not in bogs. So, I hope to go back (as does everyone else)in two or three years and will hunt a little later in season and hope for cooler weather. This was what I consider an "honest hunt", the opportunity is there, the animals are there, the guides are capable and willing to walk the legs off you, and the Newfies are good folk, I'm looking forward to seeing some of them when they come this way to the sport show this winter. Better (cooler) weather would have made for a better showing on this trip but, hey, that's the way things go sometimes. If you have the bucks to go to Alaska or British Columbia, go for those bruisers. Newfoundland has a lot of moose, and some of them are good sized, but like any hunt, weather can make it or break it. Accomodations were very comfortable. Camp was reached by traveling across bogs by Argo and ATVs. Two hunters per bedroom (four hunters in camp), two bathrooms,hot shower, generator turned on at 5:30AM, breakfast on table at 6AM, and guides (one guide per hunter) expect to be hunting by 7AM. Back at camp by dinner time (about 7PM), lights out (generator off) when the last joke is told, the last card is played and the most macho can no longer keep their eyes open (between 9 and 10PM). Made for a long day but my guide was serious as a heart attack about getting a moose and since that's what I was there for, worked out just fine by me.

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