Canadian Fly in Fishing Newsletter by Kashabowie Outposts

“Good ride in to a new & superb cabin. Perfect weather, good friends, good food and good fishing all makes for a good time! Paul showed his fishing skill by catching a 44 inch Northern Pike!�

BIGGEST FISH CONTEST Every year bragging rights are up for grabs in the annual Kashabowie Outposts Big Fish Contest.

And don’t forget to send us a picture of your lunker, otherwise we can’t use it as an official entry, for all the obvious reasons (“It was THIS BIG!! I swear!!”)

This year’s official winners are listed below:

WALLEYE

SMALL MOUTH BASS

NORTHERN PIKE

PICTURE OF THE YEAR

30"

21"

45.25"

Jeff Boeing Bemar/Ross Lake July 22/11

John Matthew Bemar Lake

Galen Schultz Wapikaimaski Lake

Bob Wegner holding the 42” northern. Al Buchholz took the picture, they were in Mountairy August 2011.

“Hello from Finland! We had a great time, lots of fish, it was nice to have a hot shower in a fish camp! Also the cabin was very comfortable and the lake and scenery was very beautiful. We would like to thank those who allowed us to enjoy this great Canadian Adventure!”

2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Fishing May 21st was the opening of walleye season this year with groups heading into Bemar, Mountairy and Wapikaimaski Lake. The weather was great for most of the summer; warm and dry, keeping water levels on our Northern lakes low. Our Southern lakes had normal to high water because of a series of cold fronts that went through the south and dumped large quantities of rain in that area. With low to normal water levels the fishing was good in the spring with guests reporting great fishing on all of our lakes. The passage of the cold fronts made fishing a bit harder but the fisher men and women didn’t give up hope and in a day or two the Walleye and Northern were hitting as hard as ever.

At about 2:30 we found walleye and a bunch of them just before Little Island in North Arm Bay. Caught 16 northern pike, 24 walleye and 3 perch.

MOSHER LAKE

the opening of fishing. Our first group seemed to do quite well

Fishing was good overall with decent numbers and size. The

and reported good fishing, The rest of the summer was good

standard fishing holes produced good numbers of walleye in the

fishing with high numbers of Walleye and good size Northern.

evenings. Beaver lake seemed to be untouched this year and should be ripe for the picking in 2012.

As expected Bemar put up some real nice Smallmouth Bass and

It produced some huge Northern and good numbers of Walleye.

a huge Blue Gill.

One of our groups even caught Black Crappie at the Northeast end of the lake. Sassafrass Lake produced good Walleye fishing for the more adventurous, but for the most part it seemed that unnecessary to make the trek over to Sassafrass Lake.

but no lunkers were landed at Grew lake in 2011, so they’re still out lurking around the lake. All of the usual spots seemed to produce decent fishing overall.

This lake never seems to disappoint. There are miles of shoreline

LOGANBERRY LAKE

to fish the guests reported good fishing throughout. There were a few memorable times where the wind blew real hard for a couple It showed good action this year. The standard fishing holes

of day’s making it tough to get out on the lake. For the brave

seemed to produce copious quantities of Walleye and some real

souls who did fish during this period they found that it was hard

nice Northern.

to beat the fishing in a good chop with a bit of a blow going on.

Mountairy LAKE

GREW LAKE

Gridiron kept the fishermen interested enough and made it The first group started fishing Grew in June. Fishing was good

GRIDIRON LAKE

BEMAR LAKE

It lived up to its reputation as a great Walleye lake again this year.

TOMMYHOW LAKE

High water made it easy to get the camp ready in the Spring for

Wapikaimaski LAKE

Water levels were low all year making it hard to get to some of the more secluded fishing spots. Despite this the fishing was good and produced the biggest Northern of the year caught by Don from the Frischie group at 45 1/4”.

The 2011 season was a bigger success than we could have expected! The weather was the driest that we have seen in a long time. It seemed to be a season of extremes. Long periods of warm days with light winds followed by sudden thunderstorms giving rise to multiple microburst events (severe downdraft winds) causing a lot of blow down at the camps. Most of the days were warm and sunny with light wind making it a great year for flying, with relatively few delays in getting guests to and from their vacations on time.

We look forward to the beginning of the 2012 season and to the return of all of the guests that we have had the pleasure of knowing for years and also to making the acquaintance of all of the new guests whom we have yet to meet. Thank you again for sharing a piece of this amazing summer with us!

“The fly in was beautiful to see such a vast wilderness area. Really glad to have had the opportunity to see all of this beauty.”

2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Archery Hunting

The Archery Moose hunt took place from September 17 to October 7, 2011. This was one of the most productive Moose Hunts in

The Kashabowie Outposts Archery hunt was a huge success in 2011! One of our most successful hunts ever; let’s hope that 2012 can keep pace. After the spectacular 2011 season we are confident that the 2012 Archery Moose Hunt will be a huge success with the high moose population in our area.

the history of Kashabowie Outposts, with most camps having a minimum of 10 moose encounters in one form or another. The hunters seemed to get most of their action around the 27th of September but moose were both called in and taken throughout the hunt. Gridiron had the most spectacular action but all of the lakes had exceptional bull activity.

2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Rifle Hunting Our rifle moose hunt opened October 10, 2011. The rifle hunt was unfortunately the least productive we have had in several years. This seemed to be the case throughout the region this year. The moose were rutting so hard during the archery hunt that they were just worn out. The season started with calm winds and warm temperatures then turned cold but with very high winds.

As a result, the moose only started to move again late in October, after the hunters had gone home. Even with these poor conditions, Mary Brucker was able to take a nice 57” bull from Wapikaimaski Lake. The hunters at Tommyhow Lake took a nice calf, and the Bemar Lake hunters took a cow. The Bemar Lake crew had an opportunity at a bull but couldn’t quite make it happen, but that’s hunting.

2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

McGinnis was a challenge! We arrived at the beginning of the season to find the dock had sheered off one of the anchor rods and broke the ramp. After repairing the

This year the Mountairy Cabin was the focus of our

dock and cleaning up the yard we had a micro burst

attention. An upgrade at Mountairy was long overdue

come through a week or two later and blow down all

so we went to work. This year we had a crew fly in

the trees on the point in front of the cabin. The cabin

and renovate the interior with tongue and grove pine

was untouched but we had quite a job cleaning up the

through out. We installed a new kitchen counter,

downed trees. It was actually an improvement on the

exterior and interior doors. A new window and 1 piece

yard. We will burn the rest of the brush and take down

shower was installed in the shower room. The deck

the old cabin this spring. We flew a new fuel tank into the

on the outside was also spruced up. We cleaned all

camp and will have it operational for the 2012 season.

of the brush out of the yard and installed a new fuel system.

The Tommyhow cabin received a well deserved set of shower taps and double bed that was requested by

Our plans for Mountairy in 2012 will be to install new

some of our guests. This spring we will clear more brush

roofing and build a gazebo. We will also stain the

and cut a bunch of firewood.

outside of the cabin.

The Tommyhow cabin received a well deserved set of We launched the new dock at Bemar this year and

shower taps and double bed that was requested by

cleared out the portage trail up to Elevation Lake. We

some of our guests. This spring we will clear more brush

installed a new fuel tank and pump as well.

and cut a bunch of firewood.

PLANS FOR THE NEW YEAR Mosher Lake has a new set of concrete stairs that will

In 2012 we will continue to keep cleaning yards and replacing

lead down to the new dock section to be built early in

older fuel systems with more environmentally friendly ones.

2012. As well, a new set of taps were added to the fish

At Mountairy Lake we are going to replace the roof on the

cleaning house. The addition of light and a power outlet

cabin and would like to build a gazebo. We plan on building

for electric filleting knives or charging up fish finder

a new dock at Mosher Lake and have plans to burn the old

battery’ is also a big improvement.

cabin along with all the brush at McGinnis Lake (weenie roast, anyone??). The big brush pile at Grew Lake has to go. It’s a big

Wapikaimaski Lake was outfitted with 2 new fridges.

list but we’re always confident about getting all the work that

We had to clean up a lot of blow down there as well. It

we have planned done in order to keep improving the outposts

seemed that when the wind would blow it blew.

to make your visits a success.

Our 2012 Sport Show Circuit: St Paul, MN: The River Center - The Minnesota Sportsman’s Show:

e m a c t a h t e l p o e p the

Thank you to all t Show r o p S 2 1 0 2 r u o to visit us on e h t d n u o r a t s ju is Circuit. Summer t. f e l s t o p s w e f a ve corner and we ha o t 0 4 1 2 9 2 9 7 0 t 8 Please Call us a fly in s t s o p t u O ie w o b a get your Kash er d n u e r u t n e v d a g fishing or huntin way.

Feb 15 - 19, 2012 Duluth, MN: The Duluth Boat, Sports, Travel & RV Show:

Feb 15 - 19, 2012 Indianapolis, IN: 58th Annual Indianapolis Boat Sport & Travel Show:

Feb 17 - 26, 2012 Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Convention Center - Northwest Sports Show:

March 28 - April 1, 2012

All Canada Shows Chicago, IL: Pheasant Run Resort Mega Center:

Jan 12-15, 2012 Madison, WI: 1313 John Q. Hammons Drive Middleton:

Jan 16-18, 2012 Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Sports Complex:

Jan 19-22, 2012 Green Bay, WI: Shopko Hall:

Jan 26-29, 2012 Minneapolis, MN: Earle Brown Heritage Center

Feb 17-19, 2012

“Friday was better than Thursday. We’re up at 6AM and hit the ‘honey holes’ – success!

The great thing about a fly-in lake is that there is fish! You just have to find them and under the changing conditions, Grew has all the great north country characteristics. Location and structure and the fish are there.

Find the right spot and everyone is on with nice stringers.”

- Transue

& Ghosh

“Came in on Tuesday and we were fished out by Friday.

Caught many walleyes and northern every day. Ate four walleye dinners and caught our limits. We caught and 8.1, 7.7, 7.6 & 7.1 lbs walleyes, and our average walleye was about 3 lbs.

Fishing was fantastic and the landscaping beautiful. We saw a Moose with 2 calves at the falls area, Bald Eagles, a snowshoe Rabbit and a wolf!”

- Mike,

Doc, John and Alfred

Your Hosts: Fern Duquette & Brian Wallace Tel: 807.929.2140 Fx: 807.929.2332 Em: info@kashabowieoutposts.com

We want you to experience a touch of our Northwestern Ontario hospitality!