Headed up to the Nipigon, Ontario area next week in pursuit of Salvelinus Fontinalis. Bring my OT Pack canoe and a quiver of fly rods, the Lavvu tent, and my woodstove. Trip report to follow.
DanO.............
Your trip is one I have had in mind for many years, thanks for taking me along mentally for the ride. If you care to send me a PM with the name and location of the lakes, I promise to keep them secret. I may never get there, but a old guy can dream.
One spring 40 some years ago while fishing for Brook trout at a stocked lake in Northern MN, I met a Radiology PHD, who had a guide (pack mule) and a trophy wife. They had planned to sleep in hammocks, because of lack of flat spots for tents. We had camped at a nice site near the start of the portage into the trout lake. The early spring weather was really windy, but as the sun set the breeze died and the temperature dropped well below freezing. In the middle of the night a soft lady voice call out to us from outside our tent, "Knock, Knock". The trophy wife had frozen out of her hammock, and had come to our side of the portage looking for warmth. My girlfriend and I made room for her inside our two person tent where she quickly warmed up and began snoring softly. As soon as it started to get light I went across the portage for some early morning fishing with her husband. The Doctor later that day told me that the next time they went fishing it was going to be near Beardmore or Geradlton. Except for the "guide" and the hammocks, all the Doctor's stuff was first class, he even had a Seliga W/C canoe, the first I had seen, which gave me my first case of "Canoe Envy".
I'm going back in October with the Labradog to shoot some grouse & Hares and fish walleye and pike in Pasha lake. Brook Trout season will be closed by September.