solopaddler

Wow, that's awesome. I haven't had a day on Nip through the ice like that in a long time!

Hey guys just a heads up but Canada Fishing Guide Magazine has a booth at the show this weekend. I'll be there today from 3-7pm if anyone wants to stop by and chat. http://www.ontarioboatshows.com/london-boat-fishing-and-outdoor-show/attendee/home.html We've also got a pretty large presence at the seminar stage.

Chris Brock might be able to help. Side note but I spent my youth on Gull Lake. There's an A Frame cottage on the lake near the mouth of Rackety creek that my uncle and dad and built in 1976. Is that the one you bought? LOL!

Honey badger

I'd be willing to bet that's a browser issue. Google Chrome or Firefox usually work well.

Upload the photos to photobucket. Under each photo you uploaded there are a number of different codes. For this particular forum copy and paste the "IMG" code into your text. That's it, it's very simple.

Beautiful work!

Speck Finger - sounds like a new Bond villain. What a great day guys!

Don't think I ever did hear back from you how your trip went last year. I'm kind of curious.

Pickle Report: http://www.canadafishingguide.net/forum-2/member-trip-reports-1/pickle-lake-84-89-white-river-air/ Hambleton Report: http://www.canadafishingguide.net/forum-2/member-trip-reports-1/hambleton-lake-report-july-2615-aug-215/ Jembi Report: http://www.canadafishingguide.net/forum-2/member-trip-reports-1/jembi-lake-aka-a-walleye-factory/ Between the three for me it would be a toss up between Jembi and Hambleton.

No dude, it's a remote outpost camp. If I do that trip we'll be on our own. Will be in Winnipeg with Chris in early June if you want to drive over and meet us for a pint or two.

Ragnar pulled the plug. It happens all the time, but I really did want to do that trip. Have Molson Lake Lodge in MB lined up for that date now. So I won't see you in early June. Am hoping to fly up a day or two early in August in advance of the Frontier Lodge thing.

Will be at this outpost camp if I go: http://french.totemresorts.com/default.aspx We'd be flying to Winnipeg then driving through Kenora so it's not impossible.

If that trip happens he'll be there.

So far... Molson Lake Lodge in Manitoba in early June. Athabasca in Saskatchewan in late June. Fly in outpost in the Yukon in July. Frontier Lodge on Great Slave early August. Lac Evan's in Quebec in late August. Echoing Lake Camp in far NW Ontario in mid Sept (I think) LOTW for musky early Oct (I think) Yes I feel fortunate and I've worked my ass off to get to this point. Will be a good year!

Agreed. If I'm being honest though I probably would have just beaten the guy, then called the cops.

Poacher!! Jack is incredibly knowledgeable. I'm very fortunate to have him writing for me!

Cool pic Chris. We used to catch really giant carp all the time at Pickering too. They were always just an annoyance. Times sure have changed!

Funny. I struggled getting our sat dish at my camp in QC pointed in the right direction - and I had a compass and know how to use it. Still couldn't get it right. Then my daughter downloaded this sat finder app to her iphone and using that I figured it out in 2 minutes. Just amazing technology. Ironic eh? LOL!

That's a good point actually, although it's not overly impressive or anything. For years I only used a compass and a 1:50,000 series topo to navigate through the bush. I use a gps these days but still always carry a compass. It amazes me how many of the younger generation have no clue how to use one.

Thanks fellas! We were in the interior for 5 full days. Spent some time fishing the lake we flew in and out of as well and it was filled with small trout too.

By that time I had been fishing for brook trout in and around Pukaskwa Park for several years, it's awesome trout country! I had gotten to know Michael Jones who was the park superintendent at the time fairly well. He told me about several other lakes within the park that I fished over the course of 3-4 years. Just staring at the map this one looked amazing but like I said no one knew anything about it. What I was specifically looking for was a lake of substance very close to the park boundary. It had be adjacent to another lake outside the park that I could fly into then bushwhack in. There's no other way to access the interior in many cases and not a lot of lakes that fit that bill. This one jumped right out. The thought of fishing that lake festered in my brain for over a year before I finally planned the trip and pulled the trigger on chartering a float plane to fly us in there. I used to do a ton of that back in the day. Unlike today air charter was dirt cheap. We could choose any number of interesting lakes, strap a canoe onto the pontoon and fly in. We used to pay anywhere from $175-$300 each to do that. Unfortunately those days are long gone now!

Thanks for the comment there stud.

I agree about getting older. I feel old myself looking at these pictures. But I can still do it.

Back in May 1989 a friend and I chartered a float plane to fly us and our gear into a tiny lake on the perimeter of Ontario's Pukaskwa National Park on Superior's north shore. Pukaskwa is wild and beautiful country and the interior is mostly untouched. Since the park was created many years ago no planes are allowed to land in it and no motorized vehicles are allowed in its interior. Not that there are any trails anyhow. This makes accessing the interior difficult but very worthwhile. Our goal on this trip was a small lake within the park which we suspected held brook trout. Of course we didn't know for sure, but the adventure is the thing! The lake we landed on still had a skim of ice on it, it was very early in the season! From there we dragged our loaded canoe up a rushing river until we reached a headwater lake. From there we portaged through soft waist deep snow for several hours to reach another small lake, this one within the park. Our quest was still not over. From there we bush whacked over to our chosen lake, a deep, narrow water filled cleft carved out of the bedrock. It didn't take us long to determine the presence of trout. They weren't giants but the lake was teeming with them! An out flowing river was also chuck full of trout with every tiny plunge pool we fished coughing up numerous speckled beauties. What was really interesting was the remains of a VERY old camp we found set back on a rocky point. Obviously it was a lake that people flew into before the park was created. An old rotted cedar strip boat lay there probably untouched in over 40 years. Two old bed springs were leaning up against a tree with a large and pretty irate porcupine jammed in between them. He was just hanging out. Before the trip I talked directly with the Park's superintendent about our proposed trip. He advised me strongly not to do it. In his words "It's very rough terrain and I can't tell you if that lake even has fish. It's very risky!" Fortune, as they say, favors the bold.