A Lifetime Of Unending Northern Ontario Fishing

 
I ride the Algoma Central Railway to get to many of my favorite Northern Ontario Fishing camps. Starting at Sault Ste Marie can be an interesting trip. Some of the most beautiful scenery is through the Agawa Canyon. But mostly, I drive to the train station at Hawk Junction (just East of Wawa, Ontario) and jump on the northbound train there.

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." ~Doug Larson

"Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting, no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered." ~Oa Battista

"Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God." ~Tony Blake

"Fishing isn't a matter of life and death. It's much more important." ~Unknown

This lens would not be compete without mention of my favorite Walleye waters. Cameron Lake, Oba Ontario. Check it out! You'll find me there most often the last week of the month, May through September.

There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Unknown

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. ~Babylonian Proverb

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. ~Unknown

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. ~Unknown

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau

We ask a simple question
And that is all we wish:
Are fishermen all liars?
Or do only liars fish?
~William Sherwood Fox

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. ~Robert Altman

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Schaffer

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery

...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. ~William Sherwood Fox

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~Chuck Clark

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing? ~Dave Shiflett

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. ~Roderick Haig-Brown

Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. ~William Sherwood Fox

Good things come to those who bait. ~Unknown

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~Unknown

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. ~Unknown

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths. ~Unknown