I like John's humor when he says that the stretch of switch backs to the Nadine portage will "test your patience"....  Let's all be honest and call it the "I'm going to shoot myself" section, nothing like seeing the spot you were at 10 mins ago, 20 ft away from you..... I will agree though that if you're only going to see one moose on the trip, it'll be there. 
Also the portage from the Nip into Remona is not something I'd do just for kicks, it's straight up for most of it.  Instead, you could easily loose a day exploring along the High Falls portage and the pools above the actual falls (if you can get down there).  The Gauthier dam portage has an impressive timber slide/river diversion remnants to check out and all of these portages have springs along them for refreshments.... 

Yes, they are old logging roads, I've been on the one north of Little Sec, you can see them on the satellite pics because of the shadow contrast from the taller surrounding trees but if they're the same age as the other ones around that lake they'll be completely overgrown with smaller pines and bramble.  Looking at the ministry map, there's some spots as the road bends south of Log Canoe where the shadow dissipates and you can actually see what I'm talking about.  I use those "roads" only as a point of reference.....

Had a run-in a few years back portaging out of a lake, came around a bend and the bear was already standing with it's ears up, looking at me.  There was a few moments where we just stared at each other, then I bent down, picked up a branch and started banging it against the side of the canoe I was carrying.  That was enough and it bolted, problem is, had it bolted towards me, I might have had enough time to lift maybe one arm in front of me before it would have reached me, it moved that fast... 
This past June, bushwhacking to a lake, we had one following us and hanging around, just before each encounter, we'd run into fresh bear sign, freshly stripped bark from trees, pine needle carpets flipped over etc... in the end we made enough noise that it wandered away but repeatedly running into it did not give me the warm and fuzzies....

And because dontgroandaddy opened the door:  Years ago during a couples party weekend at Sec, one of the lads stumbled over to the neighboring campsite (so many of us we had to split up the group) late at night.  He rooted around, making grunting noises until someone in a tent heard it and started screaming IT'S A BEARRR!  Chaos ensued and he ran back to our campsite laughing so hard he couldn't breath.  Early the next morning there was some karma when a couple of guys from the neighboring campsite snuck into ours, stole the lads canoe and left it anchored out in the middle of the lake.  He had to swim out to get it but because of the hangover, never noticed the rock anchor behind him and spent an hour slowly struggling to paddle it back to shore, we waited till he made it back and then pointed it out to him....

The only site on travers that is truly terrible is that closest site to the put-in.....

Thanks for the reply, the liability aspect would be the biggest hurdle for sure.  I know from traveling that there are lots of countries that allow locals with knowledge to run backyard guide businesses but of course, these are often developing countries with loose regulations.  Along with first aid, I would imagine SWR and a few other safety certifications would help.  Something to look into I guess, thanks for the input!

I use two painters, tied to either side of the seat in front of the yoke.  I weigh the canoe so that it pulls slightly to the rear and wrap the painters around each hand so that I'm walking with my arms down and slightly away from the sides of my body.  It's a comfortable position, no switching hands, more control when walking around obstacles.  Don't usually have to touch the gunwales until I'm lifting it off of me...

Add 3 minutes to your 15 Rob and you've got the time about right!

-The infamous "double hit" hey Bo?  Heard of it with pike but not Bass.... I've also caught huge bass in Sec using pike spoons.

-I've had a few instances of lake trout hitting jigs at the surface Kenny but I've never had the patience to actually jig for them at the bottom, will have to try that later in the year

-On another lake I was making a trolling pass between two points of a bay, each time I passed from west to east, I landed a LT.  Each time I went back along the same line east to west, not even a nibble.... Went back to shore and got another lad into the canoe, he threw on the same rig I had (big spoon with a worm harness) and dropped it to the same depth, trolled on the other side of the canoe and didn't get so much as a touch, while I continued to land his share of LT, always heading west to east.... just ridiculous!

 

Yeah we caught a few this year in the park that had them too, meat was fine though so we ate them, no problem...  I've found that some years they're worse than others, not sure what exactly affects that, it certainly wasn't a warm water issue!