A great week at Lakair

[Joey]

We arrived at Lakair on Saturday the 4th and it was HOT and HUMID.

 

The bonus, my son came with us for the first time. He was not sure what to expect, but let me tell you, he said he has never laughed so hard in his life and absolutely loved the place!!!! We went down and saw Lew, Diane and Marv and within 1/2 an hour, I had to change into my bathing suit and take Ralphie swimming, it was that hot. Sleeping that night was restless due to the heat, then in the middle of the night a big thunder boomer woke everyone up just for good measure to make sure it was a sleepless night all around Heck, I enjoyed it so that's all that matters, I love a good storm (Ralphie, not so much).

 

So good to see you Lew and Di, can't wait to see you again and Di, I enjoyed our quiet time chats very much

 

We had some interesting neighbours this time in cabin 9 (we were in cabin 8), Bruno and Mary. Mary was quite the interesting character (not to everyone's taste) but she was very entertaining to say the least. Apparently, I am her new BFF

 

Art and Joe showed up Sunday to a great day of sunshine, laughs and a few wobblies.

 

Here are some pics at the beginning of our trip:

 

Me, Mary and Paul with Ralphie on his lap.

 

 

Art and Lew yakking it up in Art and Joe's boat.

 

 

Diane not too impressed with Mary's antics that day

 

 

 

I told them all to smile for the next shot, that is my son Alan on the left, then Diane and Mary.

 

 

Paul and Al

 

 

Bruno and Joe

 

 

Joe, ever the entertainer

 

 

 

Art

 

 

Roy and J showed up Monday and joined in the festivities

 

 

Roy's son Phil also showed up on his motorcycle. I had met him before once at the fishing show in Toronto. He and Al shared a cabin. Great seeing you and hanging out with you again Phil

 

 

J and Phil in the cabin

 

 

Mmmmmmmmmmm, Apple Pie

 

 

We had a HUGE thunderstorm that night just as dinner was being finished on the picnic table. Lost power a few times. I took a few shots after the storm.

 

 

 

Ooooooooh, double rainbow

 

 

 

TJ, Monique, Jaden and Avery stopped by for a night aswell, but just for a few hours and then off they went. Didn't end up getting any pics of their visit Loved talking to you guys again. Hope you are enjoying Jiggy Jiggy right now

 

We hung out in the cabin one night to get away from mosquitos and rain, checking funny videos on the internet and just hanging out. Many jokes were told

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The weather kind of went for a crap after that and it pretty much rained the rest of the trip. Paul, Al and I trolled in the rain for a bit and caught nothing, but had a nice time. I got a few wildlife shots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We couldn't tell if this was a huge dead musky head or a deadhead. Pretty sure it is a deadhead log but sure looks like it could be the other eh!!!

 

 

 

After all the late nights and constant traffic in and around our cabin, I let the boys fish by themselves a few times, but no musky were caught. Roy wanted a fish fry and the Virginia boys had caught a few the day before, so we went on a quest and Paul caught a few small to medium pike, then I got a half decent one, then Alan caught the biggest one. He was thrilled and that ignited the fisherman in him and he was hooked from there on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ralphie on his perch:

 

 

The fish fry

 

 

 

Al fishing off the dock with Paul giving some tips

 

 

Art fishing off the dock

 

 

 

Wayne and Leah showed up for a night and we had some great laughs with them. Great seeing you two again

 

 

 

 

 

Gotta love when a woman takes the weeds off your lure eh hahahahahahaaha!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

The boats:

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, a great time up at Lakair. Moe and her friend and kids showed up, and Lego the dog. Great to see you again Moe and meet your friend.

 

Thanks so much Leslie and Kev, and hope all is well Please let me know okay!

 

 

Great time and best of times with the OFC crew once again.

 

A great big thank you has to go out to Roy and J, especially J, for her excellent cooking. We ate like kings mostly due to her cooking. Totally awesome hon, thanks!

 

Joey

[Terry]

great report, looks like a lot of laughs

[mercman]

Awesome to see the members haveing a blast together.Great pics.

[Christopheraaron]

Looks like a good bit of fun!

[woodenboater]

Great photographs Joey ! Good to hear everyone had a wonderful time in spite of the miserable weather and W9

Edited August 12, 2012 by woodenboater

[motv8tr]

Great report Joey and awesome pictures as usual once again it was good to see you

Maureen

[Live2fish85]

Great Report Joey. As well you got some awesome pictures as well.

[davey buoy]

Looks like a great time and nice pictures as well!. Nice to be able to put more names with faces:good:.

Edited August 12, 2012 by davey buoy

[Rich Clemens]

We just knew we would miss out on a great time. Shoulda re-arranged my schedule and drove up. You're pics share the story of a great week. We were looking forward to the reports coming in. Hope to see some of you next June

[Rod Caster]

I like the photo of Art and Roy starring at the computer thinking "should we lock it?"

 

Great post Joey! Thanks for the photo recital

[Bernie]

Love your pictures Joey!

Glad to see you all had a great time.

Too bad about the weather, but we needed the rain badly.

[solopaddler]

Glad to see everyone smiling, looks like a lot of fun.

[Joey]

Thanks for all the awesome responses. Just winding down here and relaxing after a week of too much fun

 

Found a few photos on my one camera I had not uploaded, so I'll add them here:

 

Phil, Roy and J coming back from a fish

 

 

 

Diane and I sitting out of the rain in the front porch of our cabin

 

 

 

And this is called dog torture 101

 

[MCTFisher9120]

Looked like a fun trip Joey, thanks for sharing that.

 

MTBF

[Spiel]

Great photos Joey, great company in a great place. I know what I missed but I had to keep my priorities in line.

[corvette1]

congrats on the trip nice pictures damm rain

[Jewelbee]

Great Pictures Joey!!!

Looks like you all had a great time...Wish I could have joined you.

[TJQ]

Great Report!! Always a blast!!

[Squid]

Excellent report Joey!! Looks like everyone had a great time!!

[Roy]

J, Phil and myself had a great time at Lakair. It was a short visit but it was fun. Really nice to catch up with some old

 

friends as well. I didn't take very many pictures at all but managed to find these on my camera.

 

This is Joey and Wayne.

 

 

Leah and myself, I have no idea who took the pic.

 

 

Here's one of Joe with a fine looking pike.

 

 

My son Phil relaxing.

 

 

J with a Nipissing smallie, Actually she caught a few of those.

 

 

My trophy for the week of course. (Stop it Terry, I can hear you laughing from here!)

 

 

Here's a water snake lazing on a rock. I know it's a water snake cause he couldn't possibly have walked out to the

 

rock.

 

 

 

I hope I can get up there for longer next year.

[Joey]

Those are awesome pics Roy, really nice

 

Had such a great time with you, J and Phil. Can't wait to do it again!!!!!!!

Edited August 13, 2012 by Joey

[misfish]

Great post J. Pics are awesome.

 

Roy,you look MA VO LUS.

 

 

Maybe next year.

[aplumma]

A great time and good people is all I can say. Thanks for the photos both of you. BTW the flaw in your assumption that it is a water snake is even land based snakes don't walk. I sure miss the evening chats where the beer makes this kind of debate make perfect sense.

 

 

Art

[misfish]

I meant to ask,,,,,,,,,,,who dem grey haired southern byes?

[aplumma]

I meant to ask,,,,,,,,,,,who dem grey haired southern byes?

 

 

A few more weeks up North and I am sure the hair would be black again Brian. So maybe next year you can get your butt up there to fish with the Best? We look forward to it when it happens bud

 

Art