bdzyngel

You could try White Lake Provincial Park. Great camping sites and beach for the kids, and the pike and walleye fishing is supposed to be great (according to the locals). You would need to trailer your boat up, but 12 hours and all highway. Many other great walleye, speck and laker lakes in the White River area. Kwinkwaga lake is also close to White lake and is a smaller sized option with lakers, pike and walleye, and is a "roughing it" option in the area. Beautiful lake, although the dirt road in is not well maintained.

Still busy up there, but better take a 4 wheel drive...as you mention Cupa, ever been to Kwinkwaga? What a lake - huge and full of walleye and lake trout. The responsibility for the road shifts to the ministry after the logging road is built. This is why the roads are in a state of disrepair. The MNR used to maintain the roads but of course with budget cuts no longer do so, or only begrudgingly. They will however pay to stop northern ontario residents and tourists from accessing remote lakes (by bulldozing and enforcing) so that only those with the cash can get to remote lakes via the tourist operators. What I'm saying, and what most residents of the North want is a more balanced policy. Given the protests near Dubreilville and White River over the past few years, I'm sure you could find local resident sportsman's clubs willing to pay to maintain the roads. Unfortunately this will never happen because of bias in the ministry towards restricting access whenever possible....talk to anyone who lives in the area and they will swear that some palms are being greased...

As someone who grew up in White River, and whose family still works there in the tourism business (not remote tourism), I can assure you that business has been hurt by the restrictive road use policy. The government is not maintaining wilderness roads around White River, like the North Regean road which traditionally has been used by many drive in tourists from both the Northern US and Ontario. Less tourists are coming to the area to camp and fish and use local supplies than in the 60s-80s because of these policies. The policy is to close roads whenever possible when no one complains to support remote tourism. This is supported by other government policies such as the one attempting to bring back phantom caribou herds which never existed in the area to any great number except in the imagination of academics and the antis. I think the government should be supporting a more balanced policy of maintaining some areas for drive in camping or even cabin renting (like is done in Quebec) along with remote tourism. The White River area and the North Shore of Lake Superior has many large lakes which could sustain more fishing pressure. Following lobbying by the remote tourism industry, the policy makers have chosen the easier route - support a few at the expense of many...

I hate to respectfully disagree, but I will. In the north where most of the forestry is, building of bridges by forestry companies actually opens up additional fishing and hunting areas to the general public, rather than limiting use to only those who can pay big dollars to fly-in fishing operations. While I have nothing against the latter, I do have a problem when they lobby government to have our public dollars spent by the MNR buldozing previous logging roads. I find it hard to believe that that a few cribs here and there actual do anything to fishing, but I can understand whitewater enthusiasts getting their knickers in a knot about it. Why you'd actually need to do a few more turns to avoid them! Did you ever think that more roads in certain areas may actually open up additional whitewater opportunities? I can think of many examples North of Superior where I'm from that this is the case... Two sides to every issue...

RivRat, I fished off my friend's cottage in February 2 years ago close to where you are talking about and caught about a dozen perch, a 10 pound laker and a ling. The ling bite was good after dark... Good luck. Bruce

In the summer I downrig at the cottage (Chrisitan Island - Georgian Bay) for steelhead, salmon and lake trout, and head up back home (White River) for two weeks every summer for pike, pickerel and specks...in the winter I fish simcoe for perch and whities and head back home for a week to hit the pike and splake... This summer we had our best pickerel fishing in a long time on a lake back home - one after another until our limit for about two hours near sundown... Although not really sportsmanlike (but nonetheless legal), we did some dipfishing for whitefish this fall near home - 65 over 4 nights. Had my brother brine and smoke half of them - still a couple left in the freezer... When you grow up in White River fishing, you can never shake the addiction... BD