About · Why this exists

Two crafts, one high standard.

You can forget about packing in tins of Puritan Stew or bags of freeze-dried Southwestern lasagna. Wild Table Outfitters runs fishing and hunting expeditions led by experienced guides, trained chefs, and certified sommeliers. We started with one simple vision: provide a food experience that matches the beauty of the natural environment. We can teach you to fish, to shoot, and how to cook it all at the end of the day.

Tyaughton Lake, 2024 Cariboo Chilcotin

01 · The premiseTerroir, twice.

Most outfitters are very good at one thing. The guide can put you on the fish, but the food is a gas station sandwich you picked up on the way to the river. The lodge has a fine wine list, but the river was fished out years ago and the guide is an ex-con with neck tattoos. The idea behind Wild Table Outfitters is that terroir should apply equally to the water you wade and the bottle you pour from.

We run lean. Four to six guests per trip. A specialist guide on the discipline. A working chef who came up in real kitchens. A sommelier with credentials but without pretensions.

Twelve trips a year. Almost always full. Almost always by referral.

02 · ApproachFour rules.

There are only four things to remember — across every trip, every season, every guest. They're the reason a Wild Table Outfitters trip costs what it costs, and the reason it's worth it.

— 01

Safety, before anything.

Every guide carries SRT swiftwater rescue training, Standard First Aid, and CPR/AED Level C — plus at least one full season of mentorship per discipline. Ratios are 1:2 or better.

— 02

Two crafts, one trip.

Guides, chefs, and sommeliers travel and work together. The menus and wine pairings are built around the seasons, the water, and the field. The cooking classes are real instruction you can use every day — not theatre.

— 03

BC, deeply.

We work in one province because doing this properly takes a lifetime. Indigenous partnerships, local sourcing, and a stewardship program that donates to watershed and conservation organisations.

— 04

Slow on purpose.

Fewer guests, custom trips, better results.

03 · Safety

Trained, experienced, and capable.

01SRT swiftwater rescue

Every guide on the water. Renewed annually. River-specific scenarios run in pre-season.

02OFA Level 3 first aid or better

Wilderness-extended protocols. Trauma kit and AED on every boat and at every camp.

03Firearm proficiency (RCMP RPAL)

Hunting guides and shooting instructors hold restricted and non-restricted certifications. Annual range qualifications.

04Garmin InReach + satellite

Live-tracked. Camp dispatcher on shift the entire time a trip is in the field.

05RCM-SAR liaison

Coastal trips file plans with marine search & rescue. Helicopter evac partner on retainer.

06Certified Level 1 Bear Viewing Guide

Years of experience in bear country, backed by structured training to keep groups safe in the field.

07Food & Beverage Certifications

FoodSafe, Serving It Right, WSET Level 1 & 2, and Red Seal Certification. Our F&B team is world-class.

081:2 ratio, hard floor

Group sizes built around the conditions, not our income statement. We've turned trips around for less.

04 · What it's actually for

Nature isn't just scenery here.

The longer-term reason this company exists is that a week on the water, with proper food and proper company, will fix things in a person that a year of podcasts, self-help spa days, and unsolicited advice will not. We've seen it happen time and time again. We've felt it ourselves.

The fishing and the hunting are the way in — long days of focused attention. The cellar and the kitchen are the way back — slow meals, real conversation, a fire that's allowed to be the evening's entire schedule. Most guests arrive holding something. Most leave a little lighter.

It's a strange thing to sell on a website. But it's one of the truths of our work, so we mention it.

Blackwater Lake, dusk

I came for the steelhead. I left thinking about the Meursault we drank standing in the river at dusk, and the fact that I hadn't checked my phone in five days. It's the most cared-for I've felt on a trip in twenty years.

Eleanor & James M. · The Steelhead Year, 2024

If any of this lands — let's talk.

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