I think one of the other things you have to take into account is how many backcountry trips are with people from different households,     sure this wasn't an easy decision to make but at the end of the day probably the safest one for ALL the parks in the province of Ontario.     my son and I had a may 8th trip planned,  we are from 2 separate households so would have been cancelling anyways.      As I said to someone else this morning, the trout population in Algonquin will be getting a break from seeing lures toss their way this spring.      cheers and stay safe.

Not really bartering but certainly was trading information,  we would be coming out of the south end of the Park , Big Porcupine area and would pass the next groups coming in,  sometimes passing 18 to 20 canoes in that time frame,   we would be peppering them to see who won what was usually the first round series of the Stanley cup playoffs and we would be passing them along all the info on what we caught and where we caught any fish that we did catch.       As someone said above the CANADIAN WAY.  

I have a fish cake recipe that calls for Poached fillets,   mostly use for Bass and Walleye but have used for Trout,  it was roughly for 5-7 mins in Boiling water,  I do season the water,    you could eat it like this or add to the fish cakes.  

From Kincardine and remember all to well pushing the boats across the ice and jumping in and also running them up on the ice and dragging to shore,   best fishing spot I ever fished.

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Mike back in the day we use to fish the outflow of Bruce nuke and would always have to push our tinny that way over Baie du ore till we broke through we would wear our 5mm neoprene and you could kind of tell when the ice was going to break.

We also use a Checklist of items to be taken and check off as we pack them.    I remember years ago Barry sharing his checklist with me and he had everything weighed and marked in Grams how much everything weighed.         I think every year we bring to much stuff but we eat healthy and sure we gain about 5 pounds ever year on our trips  and yes like a lot of People we have Steak the first night in.    as someone else mentioned we only drink High Test ( 40% )   around the fire at night.    

I think if you want to send a PM to someone to mentione it thats not a problem,  I have helped quite a few people over the years,   but I mainly give out what lures I was using and times of day etc. etc.  years ago with the surveys they where doing some lakes got a lot of pressure due to the previous years remarks on the surveys.     man hours spent catching fish etc. etc.       no different than a fishing forum I am on,    I will tell you the smallmouth bass fishing is good on the Maitland River from Wingham to Goderich,   about 20 +  km of river to cover.    

We have our best luck trolling , ( covering water )   we use a lot of the Blue Fox spinners,  the standard  EGB'S and if we get on a hot bite ( that usually occurs when a bug hatch starts,  we jig for them.

we tend to fish a lot of lures with some Blue on them.........has worked for us over the years.

Tim Lake should be an option for you as well,  no portaging and you can rent canoes and have dropped off if needed,    that way if you need more booze it's just a paddle back to the vehicles.    

Yes very good story and brought back a lot of memories from my first trip to the Park 35+ ago,  Rained for 7 days, no dry clothes to speak of  and fun finding dry wood,    and we did run into to Ladies from the states with their Brothers Grumman 17' freighter canoe,   met up with 2 guys who met them at the bottom of the Ragged to Big Porc Portage and of course they offered to carry the canoe for the Ladies,  guys said their knees buckled when they picked it up.      we also saw a Group of about 10  people, ( early 20's) across from us jumping in and out of the water most of the day,     then later canoed over to our campsite to borrow a lighter or matched,   they had 1 lighter between all of them,    think we had 10 lighters and matches.       when we canoed out after 7 days of rain we canoed over top of the docks at Smoke Lake, they had been sitting out of the water by at least 8"  when we put in.