I received word that Bush Country Camp is now under new ownership. Here is the information from their site about the new owners.

Let us introduce ourselves as the new owners of Bush Country Camp. I, Norman House and my wife, Chantale Lefebvre are northern Quebecers who raised our 5 children on a farm, and we are now 5 times proud grandparents.

Our family, found at Bush Country Camp a well-maintained and respectful of nature operation that we were looking for.

We fully agree to continue applying Art’s 20 years of in-house regulations on fish-size, and are very environmentally minded people. We intend to continue and upgrade the standards of Bush Country Camp.

Anytime there is a transition of ownership, there is a bit of fear of the unknown for previous customers as well as future customers since the new owners don’t have a track record. I have no personal knowledge of the new owners but hope that anyone spending time at Bush Country in 2010 will let us know about their trip. I wish the new owners the best of luck.

Chris

How do I judge the best fishing trip destinations in Ontario and Quebec? Its easy (sort of). These destinations are the locations that I most want to go to during my lifetime and the places that I have been that were great places to fish.

Fishing Traveler is nothing more and nothing less than my collection of information and reviews that I have been able to gather on these 50 locations from across the web. It is what I use to make the decision that this is a must go to destination. My hope is that this blog will be helfpul to you, also, in considering an Ontario or Quebec fishing trip destination.

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Let me start this report by admitting that we are walleye rookies. I am from Pennsylvania and focus most of my efforts on smallmouth bass. Most of my past Canadian trips have focused on pike and bass. So it was with great anticipation that we headed to Nemio Outfitters for an August fishig trip on the Gouin Reservoir in Quebec. 

The travel there is interesting as you spend a significant amount of time on dirt roads.   I have to be perfectly honest. I didn’t like driving these dirt roads. I drive a Subaru forester which is the minimum I would recommend for the trip. Yes, there were others seemingly doing fine with minivans and small cars but I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with it.

Main Road to Nemio

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What do you get when you combine good fishing, great food and unbeatable hospitality?  The answer is a fishing trip at Lost Lake Wilderness Lodge.  In July of 2006, my dad, my 11 year old son and I made the 14 hour journey from south central Pennsylvania to Lost Lake Wilderness Lodge located between Elk Lake and Gowganda in northeastern Ontario.  Long before we pulled into the driveway of Lost Lake Wilderness Lodge, I knew this was going to be a good fishing trip. How could I be so confident that this was going to be a good fishing trip?  Lodge owners, pay attention to what I am about to say.  It was the positive energy and friendliness that was transferred through the phone by Ed, the owner of Lost Lake Wilderness Lodge.  Ed always welcomed my calls, which had countless questions, with interest and enthusiasm.  When I plan a fishing trip, I typically make lots of calls.  If the person on the other end acts like I am bothering them, I immediately scratch the lodge off my list.  Maybe this is an unfair way to judge someone but when you are traveling over 700 miles, it is too late when you get there to find out that the owner is not sensitive to the needs of your fishing trip.
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During the summer of 2007, my 2 sons and I headed to Espanola, Ontario for a fishing trip.  It would be the first trip outside of Pennsylvania for my son, Cole, and the first trip where it was just the boys and dad. I was a bit nervous about how Cole would do on a week long fishing trip away from mom and how I would do being a single parent for the week away from mom.  I knew that I had to focus on not putting too much pressure on them and allowing them to enjoy the vacation.

Bear Lake Wilderness Camp was our destination.  BLWC is a remote rustic housekeeping boat-in camp near Espanola.  BLWC does offer a meal plan for dinners only but we opted not to take it.

A portable DVD player was used to assist in the travel.  

I really recommend the DVD player for any long car trip with the kids. They really didn’t seem to mind the length of the trip as long as the movies were rolling.  I didn’t mind that the movies were rolling as long as they were not whining about the drive.  It was truly a win-win.

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Lake Kesagami is a spectacular lake in norther Ontario. Ken traveled there from PA and sent me this report about a June trip in 2006. There are only two outfitters that provide fishing on the lake. They used Gardiner Air Service, which is no longer in business. True North Air Service bought their business. The other is Kesagami Wilderness Lodge, which is a four star American Plan lodge. The cabin for True North Air Service is on Partridge Lake with a portage to Lake Kesagami. Here is the report…

As a brief summary, we had good weather – warm days and cool evenings with some rain but not enough to curtail fishing. Beautiful sunsets and of course in June these were around 10:30 in the evening. We did, however, have quite a bit of strong wind which made our boating experience on the larger Lake Kesagami quite interesting and sometimes dangerous. Several times we were caught in the middle of the lake and had navigate 4-5 foot waves for several miles to get to shore.
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