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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.

Good to see you finally got out Barry.

Some real nice pictures there Barry, specially #4, bobcat or lynx ?

I've said it here before but I was always old school when it came to fishing and never got into all the fancy doodads that do everything but stick the fish on the hook for you. To me the fun of fishing was figuring out where the fish were rather than having a machine to tell me where to throw my bait. I had a pair of simple sonars to give me depth and where the weeds were and a basic GPS so I could mark points of interest and track my drifts. I've got nothing against someone spending a fortune on electronics to show them exactly where the fish are sitting but to me that takes the fun out of figuring it out yourself. Just my opinion of course but to me all the fancy toys make catching too easy and gets rid of the skill involved in figuring out where the fish are by a persons own knowledge.

After the big ice storm a few weeks back most folks have power back but a bunch of cottages on islands in Stoney Lake are still in the dark. I'm just south of Burleigh Falls and today the hydro crews have started working to restore them and I guess some islands had the hydro poles knocked down because the hydro helicopters are flying directly above my house carrying new poles. Interesting to watch these guys work. Not the best picture but you get the idea. A lot of folks around me have stand-by generators so we were all OK but those without are probably thinking of getting one.

Bay Distributers in North Bay sells trailer fenders but don't know if they'll have the one you want but worth a try. I got a Yacht Club fender years ago and had it in a couple days. 705 476 6010

Great project for you & your daughter, turned out really nice.

For anyone interested, I dragged the deer into the woods behind my property on Wednesday and checked on it today and it appears the coyotes are having a fest on it. About the only parts recognizable now are the head & legs.

Save yourself the aggravation, go to CTC and buy a cheap hockey bag big enough to fit everything in you'll be a much happier camper. All those things are folded by machine when made but they never fit in the original bag.

Only an ignorant jerk would do that. We have great friends in Pennsylvania who come up here every June and we holiday together, sure hope that crap doesn't happen to them

I'd go for a bowmount, nice to have if you want to get into some back bays for casting.