[Jerry R.]

Rick,

No accounting for bad taste, is there?

J

[Jerry R.]

OBA,

Cliff has some great ideas and has a ton of experience, so go ahead and try them out and tweak as you need to fit your situation. I personally can’t stand Cliff, but he is a knowledgeable camper and canoeist.

J

[Jerry R.]

Barry’s link that you have posted here works, PK.

I know he is losing his web hosting from ccr however after the sale of the site.

J

[Jerry R.]

I happen to think the best beverage container holder happens to be my hand.

However, when my hands are full and I find myself in need of another alternative the above mentioned ideas sound good.

J

[Jerry R.]

Intended reaction confirmed by PK.:D

It takes really big brass ones to take that straight line.

J

[Jerry R.]

That was a bass?

No wonder I couldn’t get the smell off my fingers!

J

[Jerry R.]

Scott,

Well that was a nice rock to clean fish on. I use my beater spare paddle to keep the knife off the rock.

As for canoes, the white one is a We no Nah Escape, and the green one is a We no Nah Sundowner. Check them out on their web site. Nice fast lake canoes, with the Escape being especially quick.

BTW the cleaning fish picture is on Pooh Bah lake, as is the picture of the young man (my son) holding the trout.

J

[Jerry R.]

Kirk,

I feel a twelve step program coming on, Bass Anonamous.

BA

Hi I’m Jerry and haven’t eaten a Bass in a week now!

J

[Jerry R.]

Let alone the nights!

sob

[Jerry R.]

Scott,

Pooh Bah is a big round lake just south of the Maligne River, just west of where said river exits Sturgeon Lake. No good ways to it.

J

[Jerry R.]

We caught enough fish to eat, but it wasn’t great fishing by any stretch of the imagination.

Colin caught the only three trout of the trip with one being about 6 lbs on Pooh Bah. Worst trout fishing we have experienced in many, many years. Not often do we not catch one when we want to.

Even the pike weren’t too cooperative.

The bass were stubborn at times too.

I did a first for me however. I hooked my finger. Past the barb. It came out amazingly easy, and without too much pain and discomfort. I didn’t even have to cut the hook. No lasting effects either.

I suppose Chuck will jump in with some fishing stories for my amusement and torture too.

J

[Jerry R.]

First PK,

The Quetico was chosen as the destination this year for health reasons. Chuck wanted to do something a bit closer to home as his “comeback” trip. Someplace we could get his fat, oops, his butt out in a hurry if we had to.
We saw people every day but one, on a rather less popular route. Compare that to WCPP last year on one of the more popular routes, and only saw people on two of ten days. Next year will be somewhere less traveled, as Chuck’s return was successful.

Now houlibar,

The story doesn’t involve anyone being “preggers” to start, and that is a damn good thing too!

We were a party of four, Chuck, Colin my youngest son 12yrs old, and Dave my canoeing partner of 25 or so years.

We were heading from Sturgeon to Badwater Lake. Low water made for some strenuous creek sludging, and the ports in places were tougher than others, but not gruelling.

On one said portage, going into Fair Lake, Dave hangs up in the brush while packing a Duluth pack and a canoe. (We single trip nearly everything.) Dave earlier on the portage had his painter from the bow come loose. He managed to catch it on his foot and lift it to his hand, so not having to drop the canoe and pack to thing right again.

Now here is poor Dave stuck in the brush, painter in one hand, canoe on his shoulders, plus 40+lb pack, after a pretty long day already, and some shorter temper ( my part) than usual occasions having happened. Dave exerts himself mightily to extricate himself, and burts a button on his shorts. His shorts settled neatly around his ankles. Not to be daunted, Dave, painter in one hand, reaches down with the other and hikes up his shorts, without dropping anything, other than his shorts, on the portage! He arrives at said landing and lets his shorts go. Needless to say Chuck and I were in tears, and all the day’s frustrations melted into laughter.

Dave secured his shorts with a piece of rope and proceeded on.

At the end of the next port, Chuck and I greeted Dave with our shorts around our ankles, and saying, “Dave the most damneded thing happened! You wouldn’t believe it!”

So the button busting story goes!

J

[Jerry R.]

PK,

Ah well I guess I forgot to tell you the rest of the story! I traded my Bell Northwoods for the Alaskan.

With my kids getting bigger and going a lot more often than not now, I needed a boat that I didn’t have to baby, or worry about scratching or crunching. The Northwoods was proving to be way too delicate for my crew.

Back to the Alaskan, it is a rubber tandem, so everything has to tempered with that in mind, but it is a very nimble boat for 17+ ft, and surprisingly fast on the flat water. The rocker makes it nimble and quick to turn, but I was very pleasantly surprised how well it tracks and how relatively fast it was. I’m pleased. I also got the spray skirt, an MSR Dragonfly stove, an Original Bug Shirt, for my daughter, and an Ostrom barrel organizer in the deal. I just used the barrel organizer for the first time last week, and again, I was very pleasantly surprised!

J

[Jerry R.]

Sweeper,

Dan Cooke makes quality gear and you wouldn’t go wrong buying from him.

I have a spray skirt for my Bell Alaskan, that ccs made.

J

[Jerry R.]

Timmy,

email Claire at the MNR office in Red Lake she will know the present conditions.

claire.quewezence@mnr.gov.on.ca

Tell her I sent you.

Jerry

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