It's amazing how nature works in the James Bay Frontier. It seems to provide everything that a person needs for a fun summer fishing trip vacation. Take the lake that we fly you into for example. It is the source of endless resources. Here at Polar Bear Outfitters, we understand that our guest come with various levels of wilderness experience.
Some come to the James Bay Frontier with no bush experience at all. Brian, our dock supervisor outboard motor repair local worm picking champion, thought it might be a good idea to make a few suggestions, in a light hearted way, in hopes of providing our greener guests a few helpful ideas about how to use the lake resources. So here are :
... other than the incredibly good fishing of course ...Ten Good Uses of Your Fly-in Lake Water Resources
1. If you get too hot then go swimming.
2. When you are being swarmed by mosquitoes and black flies take a boat and go on the lake. For some strange reasons these pests won't follow you, I guess the moose have always known that eh.
3. On a 7 day fly-in fishing trip, personal hygiene is entirely optional. The James Bay Frontier culture accepts excess hair growth and unusually sharp body odours with no questions asked. However, some of our guests may sense being dirty and find that uncomfortable.
Note : If you think you are getting too dirty or are uncomfortable about your own emitting fragrances you can always wash in the lake.
There arise occasions when one or more members of a fishing party ask another practicing fisher to bathe themselves. This happens frequently in Northern Ontario secluded outpost camps. The customary remedy is for the pungent angler to immediately set about to wash in the water.
4. If you are very thirsty and have no other water then please feel free to kneel down on the shore and scoop yourself up a lively glass of that refreshing transparent liquid.
5. If you get bored, the lake serves as another option to consider as a place of amusement. Here you can use your imagination and invent yourselves a great time.
Note : There are side-effects to having fun. Fun can often lead to feeling happy, alive and free.
6. You can bring a camera and take nice pictures at sunsets.
7. Pouring buckets of water on the camp fire will put out the camp fire. Water can be carried to the fire pit using buckets found at the camp. Similar methods of transporting volumes of H2O have been used in the James Bay Frontier for thousands of years.
8. Instead of piling up the dishes like it might sometimes happen at home, dishes can be regularly washed in the sink. Water can easily be heated up to be used in a variety of other domestic applications as well. See #7 for details on how to acquire water.
9. Nature lovers can take advantage of canoeing along the shores and see a huge variety of wild animals that not surprisingly make good uses of the lake. Moose, wolves, black bears, bald eagles, beavers, skunks, bobcats, porcupines, muskrats, lynxes, otters, wolverines, foxes, minks, squirrels, groundhogs, rabbits, chipmunks are available to be seen at our fly-in fishing outpost camps near the water.
10. Minnows need to be in fresh water in order to survive. Increase your minnow’s life expectancy, replace its water regularly and put your minnow bucket in the lake after using it.
aka Johnny Bait's Minnows and Worms
i-Fred
The 16th of July celebrates Billy and Chris' first anniversary of marriage. All the staff here at the Polar Bear Outfitters air base, Mom and Dad, all the kids and all the rest of the family want to wish you another happy year and what we'd really like to know is when is the honeymoon gonna' be over eh? All this smoochy’ kissy’ around and hiding out to be alone and stuff ... gee.