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second half of photos tomorrow..

My back is absolutely destroyed right now as I sit at work, but the trip was a blast. I went with 6 other guys and a girl on a overnight fishing trip to a highly secretive lake somewhere north of Barrie. There’s no road access to the lake, and we only saw one cottage on it, with a seaplane docked to it.

To get to this lake requires driving off road, up some ravine which is just a bunch of rocks (YFA will be familiar with the kind of driving I’m talking about), around these foot deep puddles, and then parking on a giant rock.

After parking, it’s about a 20 minute portage through a maze of forest and muddy paths until you get to the lake. Once in the lake its about a 90 minute paddle to the other side of the lake. After that, its a very short portage, a quick paddle across a marsh, another short portage, and then you’re finally in this apparent promised land of fishing.

Once we finally got there, I will admit, the fishing was pretty awesome. Definitely not often fished.. the only fish we could catch were bass, and the smallest was still about 11 inches. The regular size was about 13-14 inches with a few huge ones. We ate about ten of them for dinner and lunch the next day. I think I pulled in somewhere around 8-10 decent-sized fish, releasing most of them.

As the sun started to lower in the sky, we started scouting out for a campsite, we checked out this one spot with a kind of hill on it, which would have been nice for photos, but no flat area for pitching tents, so we moved on to the next “open” area and it served pretty well, but not much for the way of photos.

We ate for pretty much 3-4 hours, pork chops, side kicks, sausages, shrimp, the fish we had caught done up in some new replacement for fish crisp, did the regular camping stuff and then went to sleep as it started to rain. The next day was more eating, fishing and then the journey back.

Nothing too extraordinary, but awesome chance to get away and relax and catch up with a couple of friends.