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I had a 20 inch largemouth, a 20 inch smallmouth, a 28 walleye, and a 41 inch pike mounted, the cost for any of them would have paid for another week of cabin rental at Pointe Au Baril in those days and some cash left over. The pike wouldn't have swam away, kept it in the livewell which was too small for it so I could get back to camp to get a picture, all the others could have been released. Stopped keeping fish after that unless they were for a meal or weigh in, didn't even like to handle them too much.

I know I paid $450.00 in 83'. It is 40", if my sciferin' is write that's $11.25 an inch. Sounds about write if a re creation is 25 bucks now. Hey Rizzo, if you want to start a heated discussion here or on any other fishing forum say that you caught a Tiger Musky* in Lake Scugog NE of Oshawa Ontario. Addin' and subtragshin' is good but my spelen not so gould. A tough language that English is, should and would is "ould" but good is "ood", why? I remember a Japanese gent telling me that Chinese was easier to learn than English. Japanese and Chinese have zip in common he told me. Digress much JD? * Auto correct for Musky was Muslim here at one time. Doesn't look good when you type "Ï once killed a Musky." and auto correct replaces Musky with Muslim. Not good to say the least.

I posted this many years ago. One canoe trip with my oldest son,we witnessed a very aggressive battle between two male loons over a female. It was very wild. The loser of the battle was beaten to the point it was just laying in the water with it,s head in the water. My son felt bad for it,so we brought it in the canoe and brought it to shore and called the wild life agency for the area. They came and took the loon and cared for it. They even called to say it had made a full recovery and was sent back in the wild. Every time I see or hear a loons voice , I think of that day.

That’s sad to hear... Small town Canada is what this country is all about; supporting local business and being independent of big box and big towns allows them to keep their identity. I always appreciated the fact that the masses tend to venture no further than about 250km North, leaving the ‘true North’ to guys like us. But maybe that just kills towns like Temagami while places like Huntsville are hijacked/overwhelmed by tourists. Seeing old photos of Model T’s making the treacherous drive to places like Temagami almost 100 years ago blows me away...almost as much as it blows me away how few make the drive up today

at the back of the boat..

but I did stop in to Jeff Brain's shop (I think that was his name) up north of Barrie and some of his work looked really nice