Ness' Outpost

Grant and I braved the snow storm from earlier in the weekend and headed out onto Lake Simcoe again to try and find some tasty perch to jump into our bucket. We were supposed to have two more come along, but the 1.5′ of snow we had dumped on us the previous day didn’t give them a warm fuzzy feeling about driving up to Keswick.

The good news is that Grant has an all wheel drive Subaru so we didn’t have any problems and the main roads were cleared in plenty of time for our arrival. The Albertan and Naval man who were supposed to join us were easy targets the next day at work for their fear of snow.

Grant and I did alright pulling in 13 and 15 fish each. A few were too tiny and had to be released, but we had about 16 eating sized fish which Grant kindly cleaned and then cooked at his place. Lauren really appreciates that!

Once again we went out with Simcoe Fishing Adventures and other than Grant forgetting his wallet in the car on shore things were great. I’d highly recommend you contact Whitey if you’re looking for a pleasant day of fishing.

Lauren was feeling a little stir crazy in late February and promised a friend of hers that we would come visit in southern Quebec. So we loaded up Lauren’s Vibe and headed out on the road for a destination about an hour south east of Montreal.

The traffic in Ontario was fine since we left on a Thursday we let rush hour in Toronto clear itself out and then hit the road. Unfortunately that decision put us in rush our in Montreal. But not to worry we arrived at our destination just before sunset which was great because we were ripping down snow covered country roads. ;)

Overall it was a nice little holiday. We hit the town pub for dinner, I found a bunch of great deals at the Woolrich store in town and made the girls sit around and wait for me while I shopped. That doesn’t happen very often – talk about role reversal.

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