New web page coming!

On Monday October 20 we will be launching our new Ignace Outposts web page. Watch for it.






Same address, new look. www.ignaceoutposts.com

Fall Maintenance

Do you wonder what we do around Ignace Outposts when fishing ends?

In the fall we go through all our outboard motors - all 88 of them. Every motor is tuned and checked and repairs are made or motors are tagged for trade.

John from Metionga doesn't just come out of the bush in the fall and put his feet up for the winter. He has so far gone through about 40 motors with more coming once our hunt is over. Randy, Joe and I help out too. The job is big but it has to be done.




There is nothing worse for a fisherman than a motor that doesn't work. We do our best to assure all our motors are in top shape and ready for another year of fishing.

Flindt Lake Fall fishing

Ever wondered about taking a FALL trip to go fishing?

Wes Peters and his group tried Flindt Lake just before our hunters went in. Here is a little note and testimonial.

Brad, we had a great time! Good accommodations, good fishing-likely about 400 fish in total for the 5 of us in 3 days-actually picked up about 25 between 9 and 10am on Saturday morning just around the little island in front of the cottage while we were waiting for Randy.

Nothing huge in the pickerel department-my 75 year old father in law, Ted Wright caught a 5 pounder (whatever that translates into in inches). Caught it in the large eastern Bay in the North end of Flindt after the 2 channels. My friend and I named it “Mayhem Bay” as we seemed to have snagged the same fish-lines tangled, etc..

Good success in Flett Lake-we even caught a blue pickerel and a blue Northern-they won the prettiest fish award.

Regards,

WES

Next season plan a Canadian fall fishing trip with us at Ignace Outposts. You might be pleasantly surprised.

Thanksgiving

Today is our Canadian Thanksgiving. Here in Ignace, we had our turkey yesterday with friends and family. Today is back to work and left overs. Our moose hunters are all in the bush and we suspect we'll be flying out moose soon. It has rained for the last 5 days and today looks like another wet one.

To our Canadian guests and friends, Happy Thanksgiving!

A good foundation is very important

I often have guests tell me they would like Joe's job at Seseganaga Lake. I suspect many who say this don't have a very good understanding of what a camp attendant does.

I didn't hire Joe because he likes fishing. Besides being a real outdoorsman, Joe must wear many hats. He is a carpenter, repair man, host, mechanic, all round good guy, philosopher, weather predictor, fishing expert and story teller, among other talents.



Joe's cabin needed a little foundation work this summer. Joe raised and leveled the cabin, replaced some bad bottom logs and declared it "good to go".




All this in between keeping me and our guests happy.

Fall Colors

In between running our businesses, I sit on a Provincial Working group committee for tourism. We meet several time a year with Government officials to discuss and advise on resource based tourism concerns.

In early Oct we meet at a resort between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie Ontario (southern Ontario to me but northern Ontario to our government).

The fall colors in the area were fantastic. We were treated to a boat ride to view the area and colors. Unlike our area where our trees are mostly jack pine which do not change color, this area boasts fantastic color opportunities. Too bad I can't take a picture as Karen can. These photos were the best I could do.

1948 or 2008?

At two of our outpost camps we have camp attendants. Joe our camp attendant at Seseganaga Lake was caught doing his laundry on his cabin deck. When you spend the summer "in the bush" you make do without some of our modern conveniences. Joe has a ringer washer to do his laundry. It works well. Looking at a picture like this brings memories of days gone by.

How high was it?

This July we saw some of the highest water levels we've seen in years. At Seseganaga Lake, Joe filled barrels with water to help hold the dock decks down so they wouldn't float away.






Water levels have since receded to the point that the docks are now a couple of feet out of the water.