Hunting and Fishing Packages from Fayoum Hunting

Dove and Small Game – 4 full days of sport and 5 nights - $4300

Four days dove and small game shooting (Fox, African Wildcat, and Egyptian Wolf - NO TROPHY FEES) with five nights lodging at the historic Auberge Hotel, airport pickup and return, beer and wine, hard liquor, and 100 cartridges per day. Due the current political situation, additional cartridges are expensive....but sold at our cost of $2 each.

Ducks, Dove and Small Game - 3 full days of sport and 4 nights - $4300

Three days duck and dove shooting with four nights lodging as per above. Includes airport pickup and return, room and board as per above, all entrance fees to private lakes, beer and wine, hard liquor, and 100 cartridges per day.

Ducks, Dove, and Small Game – 5 full days of sport and 6 nights - $5600

Five days duck and dove hunting with six nights lodging and small game hunting available as per above offers. This package also includes airport pickup and return, room and board at the Auberge, all entrance fees to private lakes, beer and wine, hard liquor and 100 cartridges per day.

Ducks, Dove, and Nile Perch - 9 full days of sport and 12 nights - $9500

3 days duck and dove shooting and four nights lodging in Fayoum Oasis followed by six days fishing on Lake Nasser This package is including airport pickup and return, room and board, a rest day in Fayoum or Cairo (including overnight lodging and meals), then domestic transport to Lake Nasser to be followed by six days fishing from small boats and five nights aboard a house boat for lodging. Beer and wine is included as is hard liquor. The end of the fishing portion of the trip is followed by an included overnight in Aswan, a rest day, and then overnight domestic transportation back to Cairo at which point lodging until final departure can be arranged.

It should be noted that we are also working on adding crocodile to the above package for a nominal trophy fee. Bird hunts can be arranged for groups of six as can fishing trips. Eventually the crocs add-on will be 2x1 at a maximum.

A note on safety: I have lived in Cairo for almost a decade now, know the people, a functional bit of the language, and the places to go (or those not to). I was in Canada for a week not long ago and my wife was living and working in our suburban neighborhood. I would not have left her there if i thought it was unsafe. We have a very good sense of when things are bad as we left Feb 4 2011 and got everyone out (my dog included, which is a GREAT story on its own) without any trouble. Our clients will have no problems. If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me via PM or at jsalevurakis@gmail.com

Thanks so much.

John

Stone Curlew


About an hour of walked up Doves one morning.


Senegalese Coucal - Feels just like pheasant hunting!


Not bad for an hour of "off-season" shooting.


Where did I put that Marinate recipe?


Tough life we have!


Another afternoon of walking up some birds.

Just curious - is still any big game hunting allowed in Egypt?

Sure only Americans
Larry

John, when will you know of the add on for crocodille ? That would make it very interesting as a package. Assume that would be on Lake Nasser, or ?
Will the Croc be exportable ?
Cheers Jan

Having lived in Cairo during the last revolt and other weird times, I can say, I never felt threatened or in danger. The locals are not mad at the US, just each other.

I personally have no desire to ever set foot in that country again, but there is a lot to see and do there. If you go, see the pyramids, the museum, Valley of the Kings, Sharm al Sheik for scuba diving, take a Nile cruise at Luxor, it is a pretty interesting place.

You cannot take guns there and you better be sure of the rules if you want to take a croc skin home. The bird shooting is supposed to be great. All of that to say, the rules of engagement change regularly in Egypt, so be alert.

I have been in the Bush for the last couple weeks
Is all the fighting killing and rioting done.
Not sure I would even want to visit there Let alone Hunter there
Good luck
Larry

Larry,
The fighting and killing is between the Egyptian Army and the Muslim Brotherhood. No white guys are involved nor have any non Egyptians been in the fighting. It is all confined to a relatively small area in Cairo.

I agree, I still would not go there due to the confusion at the airport and on the roads. But, it is safe for non-Egyptians to go there.

I don't want to upset a legitimate offer however may I suggest after the hunt

Take a cruise to relax ... Wich is technically just down the road from Egypt


http://www.somalicruises.com/

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Originally posted by londonhunter:
I don't want to upset a legitimate offer however may I suggest after the hunt

Take a cruise to relax ... Wich is technically just down the road from Egypt


http://www.somalicruises.com/

With Somalia right adjacent to Kenya isn't there a danger of shooting one of Obama's cousins who might be dabbling in the piracy business??

While on the subject of cousins

Distant cousin just passed his shooting exam and has awarded himself a jagdchien (hunting licence) what he is going to hunt I have no idea ......

Greetings everyone and I apologize for the somewhat delayed reply! I was in The Yukon for a week, came back to a mess of work, and then took a weekend to go to the Oasis for a bit of sport. As usual, things were fabulous. Plenty of doves, Coucal, Curlew, Teal, and Shoveler...and this is really the slow season on waterfowl. Even so, regular flights of 10-12 ducks at a time were seen and a huge flock of about 50 just wouldn't respond to our call. Still, tough to argue with the above results over just a couple days.

To answer some questions above, Egypt is still perfectly safe especially out in the Fayoum Oasis where we shoot. Even if it were not, however, to travel from Cairo International Airport to the Oasis it is actually quickest to completely circumvent the city proper. In short, even if things were going well and truly sideways IN the city, you would absolutely never know it.

To answer other posed questions, I am thinking 2000-3000USD on the croc trophy fee (maybe a bit less) and this is mainly as an incentive for the locals to actually help put clients on one! I see them regularly on the lake, but I would like to have a fee set up to encourage the locals to find big crocs only. I hate sliding trophy scales personally but am considering it not so much to make the client pay for size, but to really build in effort on the part of the local community. I have ways to get the croc hide tanned but at this point, the Ministry is using their CITES quota to export to commercial tanneries abroad. I think I can get a small quota but it is not finalized so I am not yet offering croc for export. If the croc is not exportable...no trophy fee.

I am also, to be frank, considering the same sort of nominal fee on wolf and fox and wildcat so that the animals' pursuit is taken VERY seriously by the locals and they don't just shoot them wholesale the first time one steals a bloody chicken. Maybe $200-$300 max on wolf et al. just to give them a value to the locals...but not yet. Export on the wolf and fox should be no problem at all. African Wildcat will require only CITES export from Egypt but I have contacts at the Ministry of Environment to get that done without a problem.

Hope this answers most of the outstanding questions. If people have others, please feel free to send me a PM or post here.

Best,

John

Tell me you have some 18 footers left in your waterways.

I would love to tell you that! The truth is that the lake is HUGE (about the size of Kariba) and we don't know how many Crocs there are or how big they have become. There is just not that much traffic on the lake. In fact, CITES estimates between 6000 and 30,000 if that is any indication of the uncertainty. It is also believed that by the 1950s Crocs were effectively eradicated from Egypt so any presently big Crocs were born very shortly AFTER that. The percentage of the total population of say 15,000 that is over the age of say 50 is not clear.

I have seen the basic 11-13 footer on fishing trips so they are probably common. I think a guy could look seriously for a couple weeks and probably find something 14+. Bigger than that...who knows...though you always hear stories from fisherman of 6 meters etc. Of course, in another 20 years if there is no commercial harvest of the big boys, and hunting is moderate, Lake Nasser could be THE place to take a monster.

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Originally posted by londonhunter:
While on the subject of cousins

Distant cousin just passed his shooting exam and has awarded himself a jagdchien (hunting licence) what he is going to hunt I have no idea ......

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Always wonder who his hair dresser is.

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Originally posted by tendrams:
I would love to tell you that! The truth is that the lake is HUGE (about the size of Kariba) and we don't know how many Crocs there are or how big they have become. There is just not that much traffic on the lake. In fact, CITES estimates between 6000 and 30,000 if that is any indication of the uncertainty. It is also believed that by the 1950s Crocs were effectively eradicated from Egypt so any presently big Crocs were born very shortly AFTER that. The percentage of the total population of say 15,000 that is over the age of say 50 is not clear.

I have seen the basic 11-13 footer on fishing trips so they are probably common. I think a guy could look seriously for a couple weeks and probably find something 14+. Bigger than that...who knows...though you always hear stories from fisherman of 6 meters etc. Of course, in another 20 years if there is no commercial harvest of the big boys, and hunting is moderate, Lake Nasser could be THE place to take a monster.

Very interesting. Baiting crocs would soon show if you have any monsters.