Assistance in arranging transportaion is available upon request. The sign-in book did not indicate a lot of people had been there but they all had caught walleye! There are a lot of cabins scattered across a pretty wide area. Park Facilities and Activities: There are no visitor facilities. This is a private place that I had not been invited to visit. Chookomoolin's homestead/sport- fishing camp is situated where the river flows out of Hawley Lake. Old, a group from Three Rivers, MI went on a Winisk River trip. We rolled another canoe on the next rapids. The water was raging white all the way around the bend. We need to cover at least 15 miles tomorrow to get close the village. Day 4 – June 20    The Sutton River is world renowned for its abundance of those beautiful trophy brookies. It hindsight might have been easier to just unload and portage. Kevin and Jerry running the Pipestone River. Summer Beaver was within an hour paddle and we had been told it had a ‘great little store”. There were several old cabins, picnic tables and a standing tipi frame with a fire place. Since it was July 1 and Canada Day, they were shooting off fireworks. Your wilderness river fishing adventure (minimum of four guests) begins from Thunder Bay, Ontario where you fly 450 miles north … We stopped and camped on the portage before the next big run. I am sure that there are paddlers that could run that series but I was very glad to portage. It's a matter of opinion but many feel the Albany River has the best Brook Trout fishing in the world. Summer Beaver came and went but the white water just kept coming. Trips down the river to the community of Winisk Peawanuck are common. Not every pilot is willing to lash two canoes on their floats and haul three guys and their gear on short notice. We take a trip down to airport and power plant. Pristine, beautiful nature with some of the best fishing in the region! Because the next portage was across a series of white sand dunes with no trees, I could see the entire series of the rapids below me. We did 15 miles today and have now gone over 75 km. At the point where we turn north, we could see Cemetery Point. The Canoe Atlas of the Little North provided most of the information for the last half of the trip on the upper Winisk River. Hunter said he was hunting for geese, and also fishing. Ralph helps us locate a couple of campsites and a few good fishing spots on the map. Either way, there are not too many people who can say that they have paddled all but 30 miles of the Winisk River! It was. We ran the “gate” and later meet our first motor boat. The Group. Supposedly, when the steep waves subside, you can run the “open gate”. Subsistence fishing provides an important source of food for the remote Ojibwa community of Webequie, located along the Winisk River in northem Ontario. We pulled out of the “make do” campsite and found a line down the rapids. As we came up on the 30 km mark, we were met with a hard left bend that disappeared around a tall esker. The series of rapids out of the lake turned hard to the right to give it the shape of a C.  It turned out to be a very nice CI-II series. The mosquitoes were out in force, so we retreated to our tents. It was very strange able to look right through a boreal forest. We wave at the first truck and say hello to Ralph and Paulina Winter. Back in those days, there was no communication from the time we left Pickle Lake until we got back to Pickle Lake, 12 days later. The face in lens could be the long lost “Pipestone Pete”. Jim had worked in the Northwest Territories and he shared several stories of his life up north and in Pickle Lake. Imagine fishing deep into Northern Ontario, 400 miles from the U.S. border. I knew that the first half of this trip was going to take longer because of all of the whitewater but now I am little worried about just how far we will get. At this point a night in a dry tipi sounds pretty good. We even see a truck going south towards the airport. Three friends and I took a Winisk trip in 1983. First, this would be a good point to end the trip. As best we could figure, this was some kind of summer camp. We hunted for the gravesite that was supposed to be across the bay. By now we are tired, over confident and willing to take risks to get done. Jerry caught five walleye as we trolled across the Assin Lake to the best campsite of the trip! We are crossing big lakes and fighting the wind. Your Fishing Adventure Begins Here. We see the road opening but decide to run the easy white water on the north side and stop at the first eddy. If we had paddled another 40 minutes we would have had a great place to take lunch! All in all it was a pretty good first day! 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