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yeah i guess you have that when you pack a month's worth of gear for a 10 day trip. lol we still had a blast, lots of good times with good friends. gonna cut way down for next years adventure, i should get a few pics this weekend from one of my buddys that went,so i will try to get them up soon. wendel, we never even put the boat in at the camp, mainly back lakes and a few trips on sidney creek. we were doing so well, figured we shouldnt change anything. great to meet ya, maybe we can spend a day together next year. jason

jen, your buddy is wrong, that buck was killed opening day of bow season 2 years ago by an amish man that lives about 10 miles from my house. its been named the "amish buck" i think its the # 2 biggest bowkilled deer in ohio. the poor guy cant get anything from it due to his religion, all money goes to the church. a buck like that would make me change my religion. lol jason

glad ya had a good time, its almost like heaven up there, atleast the way i picture it. one of these days we will get together and go for some of the bigger boys that lurk around those parts. cant wait for the pics to come through. jason

i think you will like the harness with crawler, we nailed em big time with the same set up. split shot to the bottom and a couple jerks...... fish on. jason

looks great joe, i will have to get a post up off my newest farm addittions as well. rocket may have some competition in stud goat of the year lol. jason

wow, thats a great set of pictures and memories to keep forever. good job. jason

i can somewhat relate to rich on this only i am a farmer who supplies the meat that he cuts. im all for animal welfare, not animal rights. i wish we could just load up all these wackos and ship them to some island and let them live with nature. as a farmer we have brought countless baby calves and pigs into our home to try and give them a healthy head start. is it because we love them well kinda, but the main reason is that a sick or injured animal doesnt pay the bills. i have personaly gave cpr to baby animals that stopped breathing during the birthing process or fell in a creek, etc... hell some of our show animals live a better life than alot of people. they get two baths a day, hair is brushed and dried, fed atleast twice a day, fans or air conditioning in the summer, heat in the winter, and free health care year round, doesnt sound like too bad of a deal. i bet alot of people in third world countries would love to have such a life. as for pretty pamela, as far as im concerned she has become the most ignorant skank on the planet. some of that silicone must have leaked into what little brain she had to start with. jason

Elk lake or bust? that sounds pretty familiar. lol best of luck to you and your family, hope ya have a great time up there. tell kerrie and della i said hi, and look out for hunter the dog he is huge but a big teddy bear. dont forget to ask about the boats on the backlakes and you will catch a ton. orange, orange, orange lol jason

looks like a great time, it was great to meet ya both. thats a wicked looking larva for sure, maybe next year we can get together some more. jason

thanks guys for the insight. it was a fun trip, i just hate that i lost the pics that were on the camera, the phone and camera itself is easy enough to replace. i cant believe that i left it at the landing, it is usually the 1st thing that gets in the truck, but life goes on. verizon has put a trace on the phone in case it is ever tried to be used, so maybe something will still come of it. HH i think you will enjoy your time their, i hope the weather turns better for ya. jason

we headed out of southern ohio on the evening of july 23, loaded down and ready for our yearly adventure. i picked up the other 2 guys and was to meet the 3rd at the mcdonalds in north bay early thursday morning. we blew a trailer tire outside of lima ohio, not a problem slapped on the spare and off we go. customs was pretty easy, just the normal deal and off we head. met up with rob around 9 am. a little late but the tires had just about had it. way too much wait on them. jumped up to some 5 70 x8tires but had very little room with the fenders. headed on to elk lake, but blew out big time about 6 miles shy of town. the trailer was junked the coil springs were done and the axle bent up. put the little tire back on and limped on into town. i then called kerrie at the golden eagle camp and told her our problem and she graciously lent us a trailer to get on into our camping area. the next day we headed back to the camp to get our fishing permits and then me and rob headed back towards new liskeard to try to find either another trailer or axle and springs. after searching till about 2 o'clock all we could find was 1 flatbed trailer that might have worked, but they were asking 500 dollars for it, so we headed back and was thinking of other ways to fix the old one. on our way through elk lake, i said we might as well try matachewan since it wasnt far away. sure enough we found a decent enough one there for 300 and was on our way. hit the lake and caught several fish that evening, the other two fellas had fished most of the day and we fished till dark and got a total of 80 fish for our group on the day. everything was finally starting to look up for us. another bright spot for the day was that i got to meet my first fellow ofner. wendel and his family was staying at the golden eagle. Saturday we got up early and hit the lake for an all day trip to the end of the lake and back. we had a short storm and it really had the fish turned on. put up some decent numbers that day and had a nice shore lunch as well. we got 36 fish on the day including a walleye over 4 lbs. we then packed up all of our camping gear and headed into the cabin we had rented for the week. had way to many brown pops and goldslager that night. Sun, we hit one of my favorite lakes up there and it produced really good. we caught 69 fish between 3 of us since one guy took a muligan from fishing that day to recoup from the night before. we also caught our personal best pike of the trip at 33.25 inches and a little over 9 lbs. mon- we hit a couple of smaller lakes, didnt catch any major size, but we did manage to land another 88 fish, with alot of 1-2 lb smallies which was still alot of fun to catch. tues- we hit the same lake that we hit on sunday and slammed them again, 119 fish total with some really nice eater pike up to 30 inches and several pretty nice smallies above and around the 3 lb range. we also missed some really nice fish. one smallie had to be pushing 5lb that spit the hook out. it was a great day of fishing and was the only day it didnt rain on us while out on the water. wed- we hit another small lake close to the camp and i had my best day of walleye fishing i have ever had. i caught a limit in about 20 minutes of fishing once we located them. they were really on while it was raining. i was using an orange worm harness tipped with a crawler and it was on fire. in total we only caught 35 fish but several of them were really nice walleye. Now things got ugly again for me. we used the camps boats and just took our motors to use at this lake. their was another couple and their teenage son on the same little lake. we talked a bit to them and headed on our way. when we got back to our camp and was unloading everything i started looking for my camera which was in a dry box with my cell phone. it was nowhere to be found. so rob and i imediately headed back to the lake, but it was dark and raining and nowhere to be found. got up early the next morning and jumped on the atv and began searching the trail again. back close to the landing area was the empty box. i am 100 % sure of who has it, but what can you do. i know that the other family was the only other people back on this lake. the man had a truck with his name and buisness on the side, and is from the toronto area and told us he had a cottage in elk lake. so we head to elk lake in search of his truck and finally find it, i walk up to the door with my dry box and say "hey we were the guys on the lake with you yesterday and you didnt happen to find the camera and cell phone in this box did ya?" the story he told was that his son had found the empty box at the landing and he just tossed it back down. i kind of believe the dad, but im sure the teenage kid probably pocketed the phone and camera before he even showed his dad, or dad knew about it as well and was peeeed off that we were on his secrete back lake, cause he was saying something about the fishing not being as good as it used to be. So anyways i have no pictures of my own to post. plus it had my sons little league baseball pictures on it which were priceless to me. This really put a damper on the entire trip for me. thur- after dealing with the camera theft we went to a nice bass lake again and did well till dark that evening, the senkos really worked well on the smallies that night rigged wacky, we also got into some decent perch and a 28 inch pike. total for the day was 106. I also got to meet my 2nd ofner of the trip. TJ was going into his camp that day and gave me directions to his paradise and try for a get together. Fri- headed to a far back lake on the atv, had a little trouble on the trail but managed to get in there. scored another 117 fish and finished out our pike limit for home. had another wicked storm that sidlined us for a bit, but the fishing was crazy. most came on inline spinners. this was our last day of fishing, packed everything up and headed to haliburton to spend the night and then headed home in the morning. customs was backed up, so we had to wait about 2 hours to get through but all was fine. detroit sucked since 75 south was closed and we got a little turned around but made it out without getting shot or robbed. lol After dropping the other 2 guys off i finally got home to my wife and 2 boys who i missed a bunch. its always good to get away, but great to be home as well. All in all it was a great fishing trip, the camp was wonderful as always, and the host was very kind to us to let us use the trailer untill we could get something else. our fish totals for the week were 650 fish landed and about 7 cases of beer drank along with rum and goldslager. Now my question is do i go ahead and slam the guy and name him and his company or just let it be? How would you guys have handled it? Thanks for taking the time to read this, i know its long and no pics yet, i will try to post some after my buddy gets his done. jason

hope ya have a great birthday connie, have a great time up there in paradise. jason

thanks guys, HH i will try to get some up to date info for ya as soon as i can. jason

well its finally time for our annual trip to the elk lake area, trying to finish packing and all gassed up for our adventure. we wll be spending about 10 days up there and 1 in the haliburton area. cant wait to get there, and im sure we are gonna hate to leave it when our time is up. good luck to you all in your fishing adventures. if ya see a silver xterra with a red and silver boat heading up the 400 or 11 give us a honk. jason

best of luck on your trip, i've been doing the same thing, leaving wed. evening. jason

wow thats a nice perch, congrats on another successful trip at jiggy. glad you got to get up there and just relax for a change. jason

living close to cincinatti ohio, i've always been a reds fan, but the day they traded him i said i would never watch them again, and havent so far this year. i know the pitcher they got in the deal is good, but hamilton is an amazing player. glad that he has got it straight now, and i hope he has a long great career. crap happens, it's just what you do after it hits the fan that makes the man. jason

Hey wendel we will be up there thursday around noon or so, then head to a back lake til saturday evening, maybe we can get together for a brown pop or something thur-sat. before ya head out, give me a shout. jason

your right bnb it is trot not trout. i have ran several in my days, and caught some pretty good catfish on them. the point i was trying to make though is that if all this gloom and doom does come about, i feel pretty confident that i could live off of the land for quite a while. i feel sorry for the people that have no idea of how to fend for themselves. you would be surprised how many children in some of our big cities have know idea where their food comes from other than the store. a large part of our population wouldnt have a clue as to how to plant a garden, raise livestock or poultry. how would they survive? could they survive? jason

man your killing me, we always buzz around toronto as fast as we can so we can drive another 6 hours to get north where the big boys swim. in the last 16 years ive only caught 1 that might be better than yours. congrats on a real nice fish. jason

congrats on the job prospect, teaching is a great job. its not always the best of money, but is a very rewarding occupation. i will be starting my tenth year of it this fall and love working with the kids. some days can be tough but the good ones will far outweigh the bad. best of luck. jason

thats a great pic, im sure he wont ever forget that fish, way to go! i can imagine the excitement your little man had when it made it into the boat. good job. jason

hey mike, check out goldeneaglecamp.com it would be fairly close for you and seems to have everything that you are looking for. if ya like it and have any questions just shoot me a pm. jason

from what i have heard from the camp i go to, buisness has been pretty slow so far this year, and i dont think it will get much better for them. we will be spending nearly as much in gas as we will for the cabin rental this year. i checked on gas buddy the other day and the only gas station in town was listed as the second highest price in ontario. horray for them quite an honor lol. we are still a go for this year, even though we had one guy back out a week ago, which makes it higer on the other 3 of us now. hopefully we can find a replacement for him. next year im thinking of just doing crownland camping for my 10 days up there, i hate to not have the luxury of a cabin, but it would help offset the rising fuel prices. i have heard rumors that the canadian govt. was considering eleminating the taxes on accomadations, but havent heard if it went through yet or if it might happen next year. times are tough all over and will probably get worse, but as others have said, you only live once might as well enjoy your time. jason

looks like grass to me, but it could be the corn sprouting. the seed itself stores enough food energy to get it to sprout without needing soil. jason