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I'm glad to hear you had such a wonderful time! Since moving to Tennessee from Ohio I don't fish nearly as much as I used to. I have a dear friend who lives in Alpena, Michigan right on the shore of Thunder Bay. Haven't been up there in a while but both the hunting and fishing are fantastic! I hope your doctor gets your pain managed and you make that trip up to the Nunavik peninsula. It sounds like a great adventure.

I'm pulling for you man.

Man that sounds awesome. Prayers that the intracept goes well and you have can the trip of a lifetime.

I don’t fish, always found it boring but I know a few hard-core guys, guys who are diligent enough to go after Atlantic salmon, which I’ve been told are extremely hard to catch. “Fish of a thousand casts”, I’ve heard them called.

Anyhow, glad you still are willing to pursue the passion.

Keep doing you. I've fished a lot, but nothing like you do. Closest I got was Coho fishing in Lake Michigan, on a charter. Me, brother, and bro in law, and a nephew. Had a great time, and maxed out.

It was fun,exhilarating, bringing up fish from 120 feet down, but some of the best times are when my cousins bring their kids over to fish in our pond. The thrill of watching 6-12 year olds catching bluegill, or bass, is, simply, just great.

Lobster is over -rated - might as well eat cardboard - but I can really like mackerel, trout, scalllops, and cod.

I love lobster. (and shrimp)

I don't go fishing, because with my skin and a little sun, I would come back looking like a lobster. lol

Bone, I share your back pain issues. Unfortunately, I have found little that has taken care of mine long term. There are some short tern answers though. The think that helped me the most was nerve ablations. They don't last forever, but they do usually hang in there for 5 or 6 months.

I am at the point now that I am just trying to live with the fact that I have, and will have pain. It's difficult, but I can usually do at least some of what I enjoy. I hope that ypou are able to enjoy your fishing trip. Remember sunscren.

I fished a lot earlier in life. When in Ohio, of course perch.

In College we had access to a friend's fathers trawler and would fish for Red Snapper out of Steinhatchee, Fla. as well as shallows fishing for snook and redfish. The snapper fishing was seasonal and we had to get about 25 miles out to find the good fishing.

Here in Tennessee, in the lake for bass and crappie, some river fishing by the dam for Cats and Stripers.

I did catch a 22 lb pike in Cananda.

I know what you mean. I used to love being out in the wilderness. My wife is more of a "nice hotel" kinda gal, so I really haven't been in the wild like I used to before I got married, but I used to love it.

I've always found travel adventures to be exhilarating. Way back when I studied abroad in Spain, I would go to other European cities by myself and get to know locals and try to learn the language. On its surface, it was really uncomfortable, but it was also a deep down, addictive thrill. I really miss doing stuff like that and hanging out in the wilderness away from casual comforts.

I hope that trip happens for you. Sounds awesome. I've been really getting into kayak fishing the past couple years. I got my pb bass this past Saturday.....4.1 lbs. The kayak can get into some great areas that were previously unfishable. I also just like to paddle around checking out the wildlife.

Sounds amazing something I am very interested in. May I ask how much this cost all in, for the three of you?

So you have one of those too! That's ok, the older you get the more you begin to dislike crappy bunkhouses, mattress pads, and sleeping bags. Give me the Marriott.

Grizzlies and moose, I’d rather not get up close and personal. Moose maybe, it it isn’t rutting season, but moose are freaking huge, intimidating even if they seem docile.

If I run into a grizzly, and I probably never will because they’re thousands of miles away, I’ll probably be his dinner. And hope to die quick.

I get it. Roughing it when you are young is much different that roughing it now. Staying at the Red Roof is roughing it now. I still stay with them from time to time but I am usually alone and it just a one night deal somewhere between home and my destination.

I was going to mention in my earlier post that staying at some lodge would be a nice experience. Most offer rooms that are at minimum nice, with some even close to luxury. The food service looks good. Anything from campfire cooking with the catch of the day to fairly swanky sit downs out of the kitchen.

I camped 4 times up near Lake Temagami in Ontario. Rented canoes, paddled 4-5 miles, portaged a couple of miles and camped for a month. No quick way home from there. We counted on catching fish to eat. To eat only took some Crisco and flour for cooking, 50 lbs of potatoes, a big sack of onions and OK...maybe 25 cans of spam as a back-up. OK, we had salt, pepper, hot sauce and things like that.

We really didn't need the spam back-up, but we did anyway. Spam, the under rated meat. At least I think it's meat..lol At one end of the lake was a grassy, swamp shallows where we caught frogs by the bag full. Just dangle a treble hook on your pole and pull them off the bank or their rest. Smack their heads hard on the gunwale and bag'em.

Bass filets and frog legs floured and cooked in Crisco is a wonderful meal. So are home fries, onions and spam.

Even today I like camp cooking. Just not the camping part.