looie ) writes:

On the Civic Holiday weekend, after launching my folding sailing
kayake from a rather crowed launch site on Lake Scugog, I encountered

as a teen I spent an afternoon with a friend and his father fishing
somehwere near Rice Lake (all of this just east of Toronto) and even then
the weekend fishermen of all ages were shoulder-to-shoulder along the
banks of the river and standing out on a dam. Their biggest problem at
the time was each other's lines. I doubt conditions would have improved
over the years even though in those days residents of the province could
fish without a licence.

I find the best rural, as opposde to wilderness, paddling between farm
fields and cottages where there is no public access to the shoreline. You
get there by boat. Within the Ottawa city limits I can paddle for a
weekday afternoon and not meet another person.


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