About Your Guide
Chris Profota grew up in a hunting
family. He listened to his father and his clients' hunting
stories. The stories he heard back then stuck with him. They were
voices from another era of hunting and fishing, some famous voices
and some not so famous. Chris heard all of their stories, and he's
still listening today.
Chris Profota came to guiding easily. His father, Gerri
Profota, raised his son with rich traditions of hunting and
fishing. Growing up on a lake that
provides for your family raises
a boy into a man with a unique perspective. Chris has come to
fish, hunt, and guide as naturally as anyone might. Guiding as
early as his young teens, Chris' enthusiasm and energy couldn't be
dismissed. He was patient and determined, more attributes that
have led him to the life he now leads.
The stories are his own now, the clients too since Chris' father
passed the tradition over to him. Since then, Chris has hunted all
across North America and the world. As Chris traveled, he made
friends easily. He has been the subject of various sportswriters
in both books and magazines. He began to guide on trips that he
once hunted himself. First bear, in Northern Canada, then caribou
in the Canadian Arctic, followed by Dall sheep in the North West
Territories, and other North American big game. Soon he was in
Africa and not long afterward, he was registering trophy animals
such as kudu. If you want the references and the professional
certifications and connections, he can provide them. If you want
the experiences and the travels that create the stories, those same
stories that you so surely have dreamt of too, then he most
certainly can provide those. As a hunter, Chris knows what is
important, the experience, the memories, and the stories.
Chris remembers the stories he heard as a child, those
impressionable years that shaped and formed him. He remembers the
names of the people and those places that he fell asleep to. There
are sons of hunters and fisherman who tell similar tales. Then
there is Chris, the son of a hunter and fisherman, and someone to
weave your own new story with. As a guide, he has endless
experience. As a person, he has integrity and character, and as a
boy, well, he had everything.
