WHAT TO BRING
Fishing
Rods
Reels
Tackle Box
Net (1 per boat)
Depth Finder (1 per boat)
Minnow Bucket (1 per boat)
Worm Container (optional, Dinty Moore Beef Stew Cans work nice)
Stringer (Sometimes nice to have two per boat)
Needle Nosed Pliers, Clippers, Knife (Tether for your pliers, you know who you are)
Clothes
Couple pair of pants
Few pair of shorts
Underwear (one of the most frequently forgotten Items)
Socks (another frequently forgotten item)
A couple of towels
Two pair of shoes
Flip Flops or slippers for the Cabin
Fitted sheet for mattress (optional, and by optional, I mean Trent is the only person who does this)
Hat (At least one that has the ability to cover your ears)
Rain Suit (This is not optional and make it the last thing you put in your duffle bag)
Miscellaneous
Sunblock (In 2009 we were 10 feet from the sun for about 4 days)
Bug Spray (It better have deet or you are wasting your money)
Fillet Knife
Sunglasses (May want to consider an extra pair as well)
Clear safety glasses (great for the driver of the boat in the evenings, keeps the bugs out of your eyes)
Stick a golf or small towel in your tackle box.
Krazy glue – Great for patching up small cuts
Flashlight and batteries – The walk from one cabin to the other gets a lot longer in the dark.
Camera – Disposable or Digital – If digital, don’t forget the batteries
Any tobacco products you might use – Sweet lord, you don’t want to buy it up there.
Tips:
Line your duffel bag with a big trash bag before you put your clothes in it (It will rain on the way up or down the river) and put an extra one in there for on the way back if need be.
Wash your hands before taking your contacts out. (I found this out the hard way, not only does in burn like heck but bug spray is impossible to get off your contacts)
Bring some type of waterproof bag to keep your raingear in the boat (Also handy when you start peeling off layers)
Dad has 3. Troy has 1. I probably have a couple we could use as back ups but I am not sure how great they are.
ReplyDeleteThey are not called hand held CBs and haven't been sense the 1400's.They Are called walky talky's
ReplyDeleteThat is good stuff right there. Senior year smart-assedness towards Uncle Trent. This trip is really starting to take shape.
ReplyDeleteI see you guys leave in 3 days for the Chutes. My group made 15 trips to The Chutes starting in 1974. We now fly out of Wawa Lake to Pine Portage Lodge on Kabinakagami Lake with Watson's. Whe you're too old to climb the hill to the Chutes and fix all the stuff Richard and Rodney should be taking care of consider Pine Portage Lodge. When you leave Wawa headed to Ivanhoe lake you pass Watson's base on Wawa Lake.
ReplyDeleteBTW, we were the last group to stay in the old log cabin before the tornado took it out and the first group to stay in the new replacement cabin the following year. There is another Pittsburgh group that always goes to The Pines and they are close friends of ours.
Anyway, have a great and safe trip this year and say hello to Richard from the Pittsburgh group.
-Tom
Hi Tom
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. I've been going to the Chutes since 1976 ans started going with guys who started many years before that. I'm not the oldest guy on the trip but the most veteran of our group. Weve had guys fron age 6 to 74 in our group. This year we range from age 13 to 65. We were scheduled for the Chutes the week after the tornado and ended up at Hemps Camp but did take a day trip to see the destruction. What a sight.
How's the fishing at Pine Portage Lodge? Is it solitary or do you share the area with other groups? We still enjoy the Chutes and will probably keep with our current program as long as we are able
I think the camp dirsector has a couple of the aforementioned communication devices.
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