Being legal

Our guests will sometimes see our local Conservation Officers in the bush, sometimes on the highway at a road side check site and even sometimes in our yard.  We are pleased that our guests more often than not have a true respect for our abundant resources and a respect for the laws of the land. 

Sometimes a mistake is made and the result is a fine.  We encourage all our guests to know what the law is regarding angling and other aspects of their outdoor adventure.  We do provide all our guests with a summary of fishing regulations and all the laws are available on line here.  Ontario Fishing Regs.  It is best to know the laws yourselves since the summaries do not cover everything.

 

A check back in Ignace after a week in the bush. 

Don’t be surprised to see the “authorities” sometime on your trip. If all is in order, the experience is pleasant and brief. If not it can be costly and awkward.

They're not all off the dock!

One nice northern is caught off the dock last week at Seseganaga Lake and guess what? It is a new fishing hotspot.

The Legend

Randy our chief pilot has been with us for 23 years.  Anyone who flies with him remarks as to his skill and composure.  Randy has been piloting Otters for over 3 decades.  Not many “bush pilots” stick around bush flying that long and even fewer fly the same aircraft that long.

The other day while passing time on the computer we found this interesting story from a fellow in Mongolia.  Here is the link.

A "Floatplane" Story, all the way from...."The Gobi Desert"!???!!!

This fellow’s recollection just verifies what many of us know.

I had actually heard about  someone tying a Cessna 206 to the side of an Otter and flying it out of the bush many years ago.  As is his character, Randy never told me about it until I asked one day. 

We have been calling Randy “the Legend” for sometime.  This story just adds to the adventure. 

Where’s my invite?

My invite must have been lost in the mail. I think the only thing better than eating at camp is actually catching your supper.

Knowing the characters in this crew, I suspect tall rubber boots were in order while the day’s adventures were recalled at the dinner table. Likely a few of last years tales and even a few that probably never really happened were expounded upon too.

Even Seseganaga Joe’s invite came on time.

Otter tracks

Advances in technology continue to amaze and assist. With a SPOT GPS riding along in the Otter with Randy, we can follow a live ‘cookie crumb trail.’ Signals are sent every 10 minutes. This screen capture shows 4 of his 5 trips Friday.

“Like” Us?

If you hadn’t noticed (see right sidebar), we are on Facebook! Click on the Facebook badge or here to check out the Ignace Outposts Page. If you have a facebook account we’d love it if you ‘like’ us. Someone on our ‘like’ list will win a yellow DeHavilland ball cap. Deadline is midnight Saturday, June 11th.

We’re on Twitter, too!

Photo Ops

Even the high flyers stop by now and then to check out some good camp cooking.

At Irene Lake last week this bald eagle thought he might join the party at the camp and enjoy the sand beach too.

A few Geese also thought there was more going on at our beach camp than at their end of the lake. 

Don’t forget your cameras on a fly in trip.  Besides your camp mates walking around in their underwear (or less) there is often some great photo opportunities to be had.

Nothing like fresh walleye

fix’n walleye so fresh they are still quivering as they hit the pan is one of the delights of an Ignace Outposts fly in fishing trip. 

The cook is usually the most popular guy in camp.  The secret to good camp cooking is never guess, never explain and above all never apologize.