Thanks Lew, we've stayed at both of those places. I loved Mashkinonje, I loved how easy it was to go up or down the river to good spots that I was aware of. The cottages were very nice, and Regan is a blast. In fact, when I stayed there two years ago, I'd recognized your boat from all your posts on here, and spent several hours having beers and telling stories with Regan. However, its too much money for my cheap friends.
Our first year of making the trip guys only, we stayed at Memquisite, and we all really liked how well spaced the cottages were, and the fishing was excellent. Problem with them, is when we went to rebook the next year, they'd raised the cost over $70 per person, even though we were returning, and we stay during a week where no one else was there last time.. They wanted to charge us $70 for launching and docking each boat, even though there's a free launch on the island you drive in on, and the cottage is water access, so of course I need docking?! It was unfortunate, we really could have started a long standing tradition of going there.