Christopheraaron
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- Mar 11, 2012
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The original plan was to go out to the Tweed/Bancroft area for a few days with another member, but he got called into work last minute and had to cancel. The problem with that is that I hadn't booked anything, I was free to go wherever I wanted, so I started scouring maps (it's an addiction). Too much freedom can definitely be a bad thing, took me nearly 4 days (the last days we had leading up) to decide between Algonquin, Tweed, Kawarthas, Georgian bay, Erie, Huntsville, Simcoe, Trent, BOQ, Muskoka, you get the idea.
I finally decided on Massassauga, it had been on my to-do list for a couple years now and this would be the perfect time to at last try it. My dad's back wasn't in great shape at the time and neither was my arm so we decided to skip the canoe and go with a small boat rental. Because we had the boat we didn't hold back when packing, I think we brought 4 or 5 duffle bags, a cooler and a giant camera bag, as well as the usual sleeping bags, mats, fishing gear, and clothes.
Here's the view going out from the marina.
The run to our campsite.
Arrived at the site, set up the tent, gathered some wood and set off to finally fish some of this water!
The first small fish of the trip, on a 7" senko.
We were on fish right away, but nothing of any real size with the biggest probably at a couple pounds. After a good couple hours I did finally land a fish on my skitter walk, which I had been getting a lot of hits on, just not hooking up, my guess is 16-17".
My dad really out fished me the first night, but nothing very big was landed, despite having some giants on.
Camp sweet camp...
Getting the morning fire going to cook some eggs and bacon.
I finally decided on Massassauga, it had been on my to-do list for a couple years now and this would be the perfect time to at last try it. My dad's back wasn't in great shape at the time and neither was my arm so we decided to skip the canoe and go with a small boat rental. Because we had the boat we didn't hold back when packing, I think we brought 4 or 5 duffle bags, a cooler and a giant camera bag, as well as the usual sleeping bags, mats, fishing gear, and clothes.
Here's the view going out from the marina.
The run to our campsite.
Arrived at the site, set up the tent, gathered some wood and set off to finally fish some of this water!
The first small fish of the trip, on a 7" senko.
We were on fish right away, but nothing of any real size with the biggest probably at a couple pounds. After a good couple hours I did finally land a fish on my skitter walk, which I had been getting a lot of hits on, just not hooking up, my guess is 16-17".
My dad really out fished me the first night, but nothing very big was landed, despite having some giants on.
Camp sweet camp...
Getting the morning fire going to cook some eggs and bacon.
