FINDING CAMP NORTH
Since 2010, we have been operating the now legendary arctic char trophy camp on Greenland’s Eqalugsugssuit River, better known as Camp North.
In 2006, while we were already running a very popular fly fishing program on the Erfalik River and the Napiarissat River (today known as Camp South), we were still busy exploring. So far, we had found nothing interesting enough to consider running a week long program and were content with what we already had found. At least until we heard the rumours:
Every fisherman knows that the fish are always bigger where you haven’t yet fished. Especially, if you can’t fish there. When we started hearing stories about a river north of Sisimiut that had a run of unusually large arctic chars – but was also closed for fishing for a five-year-period – we took it with a grain of salt. Then we heard more stories, this time with one or two pictures thrown into the mix, and we were soon at the point where it would take more than a pinch of salt to hold us back.
We caught a bunch of really nice chars on our first exploratory trips to Camp North. Char fresh out of the ocean, including a couple of big ones between 5 and 6 KG. That has been bettered many times at Camp North since then – the camp record is now way past the 8 KG mark – but at the time is was a game changer. And we still don’t know of any other river in Greenland that consistently produce arctic chars of these proportions.