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that, in this part of Ontario, once you buy your fishing license, you can fish just about any water you can get your boat in or you can walk to. This land belongs to all the Canadian people, i.e., it is not privately owned, except for a few, relatively small parcels around villages. You can drive down the road, and when you see a lake, and there are, literally, thousands of them, you can go fish in that lake. No problem. You got to love that.

'Many of the lakes here are not accessible by land vehicle, and they do not get fished. You just can’t get to them. At least, you can’t get to them in the summertime. Some do get fished during the winter, through three feet of ice, reached only by snowmobile. That fishing pres- * sure, at 20 to 40 degrees i* below zero, is not heavy, to say the least. o;

Besides hunting and // fishing and snowmobil- ", ing, the major industry, i by far, is forestry. And , what does that do for the , fisherman? For those not faint of heart, and who , , have the will and stamina to sustain their fishing fetish- ‘"* es, it makes accessible some lakes that haven’t been fished in a long, long time, if ever.

The Bakers and

Three Bears Camp

Brandon Baker knows this land, and he knows where the lakes are that have big fish. And he knows better than to promise you anything when it comes to fishing. (That’s why they call it “fishing” and not “catching”) But you would do well to follow his advice. He and his wife, Cindy, own and operate Three Bears Camp in Shining Tree. Oscar and I stayed in one

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