No, its better she doesn't know...
Looks like a great trip. Exciting to see.A few of us are heading up to Square Tail the second week of August. Hopefully we are coming in after most of the black flies have past. I hear horror stories of using more DEET than gas up in Northern Quebec. I was hoping you could answer a couple questions... The bugs were not bad at all, only on shore and even then very bearable. Not sure about August though. There was almost always a breeze on the water.Did you guys stay at the Nordic Motel before heading into camp? Did you see anything in Chibougamau that you would have rather had stayed at? We stayed in St Felician at the Hotel Borealis, it was very nice. We didn't go inside the Nordic but it didn't look like much to us, glad we stayed at Borealis. There were nicer places in Chibigomou I think. Any suggestions to someone going up? Things you wish you had done differently?White plastic jigs, lots of them. Brown and orange too. I used gulp and mister twister Paddletails, curly tails. Heavy heads 3/8 up to 1 oz. Remember to pinch down the Barb. Don't forget the mosquito screens for your bed, well worth the $$. I'm thinking of taking a fly rod now, going in August will probably be a good time with the water getting lower. Will be nice to get out of the tin boat now and then.I'm not much of a fly fisherman, but was looking forward to trying it. Next time. You can probably fly fish out of the boat if you wanted to.
On the way home we drove straight through and it was 15 hours, stopping for lunch, dinner and gas. And a police officer with flashing lights...