Kayaking On The Bay

JD and The Fishdog took a couple hours recently to criuse around Lake Erie's Presque Isle Bay on a Freedom Hawk 14 Kayak. Here is the boat ready to fish with The Fishdog in the bow keeping watch.

Mr. Whiskers!

While not considered a normal fly rod target, channel catfish will hit flies on a regular basis. Channel cats are not scavengers and actually prefer live prey. They hit hard and put up a strong fight when hooked. This fish hit a tube crayfish pattern that was being fished in a local farm pond.

A Different Kind of Breakfast Food

Here's a new way to get that daily dose of Omega 3's. Not your usual early fare, fresh brook trout with potato cakes and eggs made a special breakfast one morning. Most of Ontario's brookie waters have numbers of fish that allow reasonable harvest, so no guilt in enjoying a smaller fish or two.

Personal Best!

Brook trout are the name of the game at Kwagama. They are the only fish present in the lake and several others in the area. With a little help from camp owner Pat Henry, JD was able to get his best ever wild brookie. This fish measured at 18" before release and hit a brown stonebugger fished along a dropoff into 20 feet of water on an intermediate line.

Camp Dog

We love dogs and every good camp has a Camp Dog. Here is Nellie the official greeter and fisherman finder from Kwagama Lake Lodge. A 5-year-old Lewellan Pointer, Nellie loves to chase partridge, go for boat rides, and get her head scratched. She is also good at locating napping anglers who miss their scheduled pick-up time along a logging rod.

A Ride Back in Time

JD and Dog Friends Buck Juhasz and George Ayres are just back from chasing brook trout in the Agawa Canyon region of Ontario. They rode the Algoma Central Railroad from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to a drop-off point for Kwagama Lake Lodge. The train started operation in 1899 and carries passengers, baggage and freight from The Soo to Hearst, Ontario, a 296 mile one way trip. Most of the cottages and lodges are accessible only by train or air. There are several scheduled stops, but the train will stop anywhere along the line to drop riders. It also possible to flag down the train anywhere along the track to be picked up.