depending on what you are fishing for they could be hot spots
and no you do not want to launch in Barrie and ride down to cooks bay, I don't know if anyone in Barrie rents, if they do there is some good fishing just out from barrie and the shoreline
but if you want cooks bay and roaches point which is the north east point of cooks bay
you should go to gilford or keswick to rent launch from
harrys at the rive on the main street of keswick( 404 north to ravenshoe west to leslie north on leslie to riveredge park) rents as does Peter in gilford, (400 north to 89 east,to the lake and then the last right then a left, I think)