brkygetr Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Shining Tree.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baptiste Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 I'm kinda partial to the Haliburton and Bancroft area. I can keep an eye on things from home if this link works. http://www.halcom.ca/haliburton.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry2Rs Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 A lot of great places on or near Highway #17 have already been mentioned, but they're too far from the "Big Smoke" for me. I like the North Kawarthas because you have the lower property cost, low taxes, clean water and plenty of great fishing without the five to eight hour drive to actually reach "Northern Ontario." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigugli Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 I would say BALA. I always have a blast when I go there. A portion of the weekend is always a haze due to generous portions of alcohol. Seems like a good idea at the time but always regret it the next day.... headache. I guess Bala is a good town. Don't seem to remember too much from my visits there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdrifter Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Hearst has more cutie little Francophones than any across the 11 I've visited. For fishing... Nipigon would be a sweet little early retirement area. Moonbeam... for the muchachitas and the back country lakes.. Kenora is very nice also.. I'd go once a week when I worked on a fishing lodge in LOTW. Think I might just settle there one day! Goddun Jim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bow slayer Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) for a big town i would say North bay.It has everything you could want and is surrounded by great fishing opportunities. For a small village Restoule I have been going there for 20 years now and will be again this summer. Edited March 5, 2009 by bowslayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioFisherman Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Haven`t been to many towns up there Parry Sound, Sudbury, can`t count Pointe Au Baril not big enough to be a town? Some place around Rice lake and Beaver lake when I was a kid, can`t even remember the names of them. All were nicer than Cleveland! Was in Gravenhurst once also, buddy`s uncle had a gas station dinner there, also nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdH20guy Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Hi guys Just joined today and must say, awesome sight!! thanks I lived in Sioux Lookout for 3 years and awesome walleye for sure; returned home to Coldwater/Orillia and am now partial to Gloucester Pool/Severn River south of Big Chute Marine Railway......bass all over the place.. thanks for all the great reads on here.. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addy79 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 combermere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy - Curtiss Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) there is a town in north ontario, with dream comfort memory to spare, in my mind i still need a place to go, all my changes were there ~ Neil Young that town for me would be Callander Ontario I spent a considerable amount of time in Callander in my teens when I lived in Astorville. I would have to say that Sudbury is my favorite northern town. I've got great friends there and the fishing just outside of the city can be amazing. Edited March 5, 2009 by Billy - Curtiss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishnwire Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 I lived just outside of Toronto (Mississauga) for over five years, and I was homesick for Sudbury the whole time. I always knew that living down there was only temporary for me and that I'd come home some day. If I was still living down there I'm pretty sure I'd have blown my brains out by now. Anyone ever hear of Capreol? It's just outside of Sudbury. There are endless miles of bush roads and quad trails back there. I wish I was there right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy - Curtiss Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) I lived just outside of Toronto (Mississauga) for over five years, and I was homesick for Sudbury the whole time. I always knew that living down there was only temporary for me and that I'd come home some day. If I was still living down there I'm pretty sure I'd have blown my brains out by now. Anyone ever hear of Capreol? It's just outside of Sudbury. There are endless miles of bush roads and quad trails back there. I wish I was there right now. Yeah dude. Ever fish Hunter Lake up past Moose Mountain?! Edited March 5, 2009 by Billy - Curtiss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdotfisherman Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 My favourite town away from Toronto is Pointe au Baril.. great fishing and great times. I can't wait until April to open up the cottage, and for May when Pike and Walleye open to fish.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishermccann Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 It is the near north, Fenlon Falls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peps Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Mckellar, Ont spent my summers there as a kid, not much of a town general store and gas station...great fishing on Manitouwabing lake and some others surrounding the area. Peps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdelongchamp Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 McKenzie Island and Red Lake. Great people, great fishing, great bars, great hunting, Lived on the island for twenty years, and was minutes away away from my favourite fishing hole. From the house by my island truck to the dock and out to my fishing hole in five minutes or less, with my fifty hp. To-day it's a hot mining community (Goldcorp and Cambpell Red Lake Mines) and unfortunately the Gold Eagle Hotel on McKenzie Island is long shut down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky or Specks Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 #1 choice would be Restoule # 2 would be Nipigon # 3 Wawa #4 Temagami (cant beleive it hasnt been mentioned yet.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenhawk Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 my favourite is Kenora.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappieperchhunter Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Bobcaygeon is our Happy place. Has everything Debbe and I need for a happy retirement. We have a little place in town up there we use as a summer cottage and plan on moving in full time when we retire. Can walk to everything in town and lots of things to do and places to fish. Taxes are less then 1/3 what I pay in Oshawa so that's a bonus too. I worked for the MNR in the early 80's based on Helen Lake outta Nipigon. Also worked Fire crew outta Armstrong for part of that summer as well. These would be my 2nd choices...but a little too far off the beaten track for Debbe I think...especially Armstrong!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jer Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 I'm probably biased, and it's not really "up-north", but my 'new' hometown of Ennismore is just like paradise (especially having grown up in Mississauga). Nestled right amidst the Tri-Lakes, almost totally surrounded by water: Pigeon to the west, Buckhorn to the north and Chemong to the east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiel Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 I've always had a fondenss for the Meaford / Thornbury area. South shore of beautiful Georgian Bay and central to most of the areas steelhead fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandybay Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 The Florida Keys. But I was never good with a compass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeXXington Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 got too Say LakAir area or the North Channel by Boat. One of these days I will get further north too see what its like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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