As we continue our Summer 2012 rod trip Duke and I have stayed in one place for four nights! After moving to a new place almost every night for four weeks staying in one place would have been a nice change but staying at our cabin on Lake Nipissing has been idyllic. I say our cabin which is not strictly true.
Last Wednesday we left Ottawa knowing that we wanted to find a place to fish. We didn't have a destination but decided to explore a left turn off the trans canada highway. It was raining pretty hard. We checked out a couple of places but didn't find anything we liked. As we continued down the road I saw a place with freshly painted cabins. Duke did a u-turn and we checked them out. The place in called Lakair Lodge. The lady at the counter was very friendly and showed us a spotlessly clean two bedroom cabin right on the lake. We took it.
Above is our cabin and below is the view out our front door.
We woke up the next day. and went fishing. Lakair rented us a wooden boat and a motor and loaned us a map, net, and life jackets. We caught a few fish but only kept this one for dinner.
This is Duke's biggest fish that first day.
We packed a picnic lunch and found a sunny point to enjoy our lunch and relax.
Day two was overcast with a prediction of rain. The morning turned out to be great fishing weather. We caught and kept four fish. Duke caught a monster northern pike. It turned out to be by far the biggest fish of the trip.
I caught a clam!
In the afternoon it started to rain and we headed back to the cabin to nap, read and play cribbage.
The wind was really blowing and a large branch came down from a tree in front of our cabin.
On day three it was still raining but the wind had gone down. Instead of going out in the motor boat we rented a canoe and explored some inlets. We caught a few small fish but we already had enough big fish to eat for dinner so we didn't keep any of them.
We left lake Nipissing this morning. I loved Lakair Lodge. Check out their website here..
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Did you eat the clam? And how was the pike? I’ve never eaten one. Love your blog – keep posting!
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Linda, No, we didn’t eat the clam. We threw him back. The pike was very good although pike do have a lot of bones. Thanks so much for the encouragement!
Marion
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