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I live 10 miles north of a little Kawartha town called Lakefield and have been here going on 16 years and before that we had a house trailer 5 miles from Lakefield for 36 years. There's a great little hardware store in town that everybody uses and I've been shopping there over 50 years. Walk in the door and before you go 20 feet several employees will see if you need help. Everybody is so darned friendly and helpful and it's just a plain nice place to shop. There's also 6 apartments above that house 6 families. Seems like this place was built in the mid 1800's. Sadly the place caught fire a few days back and is now so badly damaged they started tearing it down yesterday. Flames went up and totally destroyed the roof then the 2nd story started collapsing into the main store. Six families lives ruined after losing everything they owned including a few pets and a bunch of good folks now unemployed in an area with few good paying jobs. Small town folks are fantastic though and right away a few GoFundMe's were started to help these folks get through it plus there's collections of clothing and what ever may be needed. Gonna miss shopping here and talking with so may of the employees that I know. A nice place gone forever.

My daughter was coming along hwy 407 last night and ran over a piece of metal on the road and the tire that hit it basically disappeared with nothing left but a band of rubber on either side of the rim. I've seen plenty of flat tires but nothing like this. Luckily those 2 strips protected the rim with zero damage. Just thought some may find this interesting.

Thanks Barry, really nice pictures !!

You'll really enjoy your stay at Memquisit, it's a great place with great owners. I always had my best luck with muskies casting large spinnerbaits around cabbage beds in around 8' of water. Others will have their own opinions but this is just what worked well for me over the years on the West Arm. Here's a couple examples if you find the right spots.

My neighbor installed one last year and is really happy with it.

Driving down hwy 28 this morning and this tiny little black critter ran across the road just ahead of me. Probably less than a foot high I thought at 1st it was a cat and my wife thought maybe a rabbit then I realized it was a black bear. I've seen plenty of bears but never one so small & cute. Good way to start a day LOL

I was casting Nipissing and wanted to move a couple hundred feet and my chart showed 8' of open water all the way. Put the boat in gear and went 50' and ended up sitting on top of a rock just under the surface yet my chart still showed I was in 8 FOW. Charts are good but not always perfect.

When I used to fish muskies on Nipissing's West Arm I mostly fished in 8 FOW and by mid June the cabbage was nearly always right up to the surface but I remember one year there wasn't a piece of green to be found anywhere. Following year it was all back to normal. Strange how Mother Nature works sometimes.

I've always said you don't need to catch a fish to have a great day of fishing.

You'll love that Yamaha Pete !!

Thanks Chris, for a couple days I thought maybe I pushed a wrong button somewhere LOL.

We've stayed at Memquisit several times and the place is absolutely amazing and Frank & Charlene are as good as they come and will go out of their way to make your visit great.

My favorite spot of anywhere else I've ever fished.

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I'm on a small sideroad just a few minutes south of Burleigh Falls and it looks like a hurricane went through here, much like many other places. Problem being though with our location I would guess we may be on the bottom of the list for Peterborough County or Selwyn Township to get around to cleaning the mess up.