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Lodge 88 owner David MacLachlan talks Northern Ontario
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Mar 26, 2025
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uh he is the executive director of
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destination north ontario
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but more importantly he is the owner of
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one of the most exquisite
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operations in the country we've said
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this a million times
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it's called lodge 88 and it is truly a
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little slice of heaven this lake is
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is unbelievable for us it has been such
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a lucky lake we come down
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we go to that lodge right there and get
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the best lodge that we've ever been to
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and we stick walleye like this left
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right center a bad day you'll still get
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a couple of these things on a good day
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that's me and he joins us now our good
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friend dave mclaughlin good morning
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david
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afternoon i guess it would be hey how
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are you yeah how are you
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listening and hearing about uh how hard
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it was to make a living uh
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as a tournament fisherman uh try being
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in tourism right now
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yeah no kidding oh my god
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nicely fit yeah that's so true
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are you are you at the lodge yeah i'm at
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the lodge right now so coming to you by
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satellite so if a bird flies over or
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something we might lose our connection
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but
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uh it's been pretty good for the last
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hour so you'll knock on wood
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so so david's lodge is larger to eat on
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this noggy lake tell everybody just to
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quickly where you're
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you know geographically located in the
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lodge state well we're 88 miles west to
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shaplow on the
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canadian pacific railway 3600 miles
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north of wawa
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and 34 air miles southeast of white
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river
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roughly about 200 miles uh north of
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susie marine
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so one of the um one of the exciting
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parts about
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david's operation i mean you could fly
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in obviously that's probably the most
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common but
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but and i don't know whether it's still
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available david you you'll you'll
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correct me everyone but i think one of
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the most uh
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appealing ways to to come and visit you
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is on the rail and uh in our particular
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case the first time we came
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to uh join you um i think we went out of
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uh is it hawk junction uh
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one of the two yeah that train trip
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in on the rail um with the old bud car
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it's first of all it's historical but
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it's part of the
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experience of of northern ontario
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is it still being used yeah still
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running and
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uh you know just a few years ago via
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rail took over the
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operation of the train and uh so they've
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improved their uh on time performance
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and
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i don't know i think i kind of remember
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you guys getting in a little a little
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late in the evening
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and i think you brought a new definition
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to the to the word bud
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car
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yes three times a week out of uh sudbury
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uh or out of white river
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and uh right now uh they're on a reduced
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schedule because of the pandemic uh just
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one train a week but
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still running and we're glad to have it
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let's just uh for a moment pete
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let's just uh before we get on to the
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pandemic and all we had a million things
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to talk to you about
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but uh for a moment let's talk about
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what you just said if i remember
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correctly that wasn't our first time
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visiting you but but i think it might
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have been the second where we brought
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that group of 40
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44 people or 48 people uh into the lodge
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and and only because of the rail service
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because otherwise that trip wouldn't
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have happened how else do you bring such
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a big group of people
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to one spot other than on a train and uh
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we knew pete and i knew we were in
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trouble when we met these guys
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i think it was in sudbury february train
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stations train station
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part of a national contest that we had
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put on
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anyways they the the point is that they
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were all meeting in sudbury and then in
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sudbury we're going to get on the train
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and we're going to come up to lodge 88
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and pete and i knew we were in trouble
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when the
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vehicle started arriving and
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one of the first vehicles that came up
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was a 40-foot motorhome
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hauling a 35-foot trailer
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we thought what the hell is going on
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well the trailer was full of beer
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they had i don't know how many came here
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at that trailer
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we knew we were going to be in trouble
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because they said yeah it's for our
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train trip
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out there i mean we're going to be on
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the train for six hours or so i mean
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we've got to have some some
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beer and they proceeded to unload this
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trailer in one of the trailers on the
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train one of the cars in the train
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and uh
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yeah yeah we should have all had shares
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in lcbo that week
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and yeah and that's another point is we
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went to their cabins that one night
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after seeing all that 100 cases of beer
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whatever
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stupidly number it was well they
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calculated at least
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three two fours uh at two four a day for
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each guy
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24 and and uh uncle i won't say his last
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name uncle would have two beer
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cases of beer per day he already threw
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an extra case if he hat but then we went
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to the
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the cottage that they were in and then
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we got in there and not only is the beer
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they got
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60 ounces of hard boost sitting on the
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table
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you know we get hung over we have a we
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need a little change
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oh my god these guys can drink man yeah
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they were pretty cool i think
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an atv with the empties with deposits
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you'd make a friggin fortune on that
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wouldn't you
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anyway um that's just one of the many
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experiences that uh that lodge 88 has
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supplied
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for us for sure um but let's talk about
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the pandemic situation so so
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how long have you been open now well we
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we've been here since may the 24th it
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was uh you know it was a late year for
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ice so we're a little late coming in
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uh technically you opened since the 13th
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of june is uh
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you know kind of when we got the word
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from the province that uh that we were
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okay to uh to rent cabins and so
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we've had uh people here pretty steady
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through the season except maybe
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the month of july was uh was uh was was
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quiet but
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uh now we've been open for two weeks on
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the full american plan the dining room's
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open
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and nice to see uh you know groups of
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people uh here it's still
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nothing like it would normally be but uh
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it's better than uh
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than than what we thought it would be
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what's your dining room protocol right
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now david do they have to wear masks i
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mean you're not eating obviously but
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what's your uh enlarged protocol there
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seating et cetera well from there from
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yeah from the health unit
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is uh you know in public spaces inside
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uh you know supposed to wear a mask so
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people are wearing a mask if they're
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coming in to to watch tv
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um you know coming in sanitizing your
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hands at the door and then sitting down
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you don't yeah you don't have to wear a
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mask to to eat your your dinner
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no people aren't spending a lot of time
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in the lodge they're spending more time
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in their cabins and of course
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out in the lake and we've had a
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fantastic summer
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have yeah the fishing's been good so far
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well it's been fantastic like uh you
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know you think about uh you know maybe
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that's one of the benefits
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uh if there is a benefit or one of the
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silver linings is you know the fishing
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pressure
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and uh and uh there haven't been a whole
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lot of people on the lake
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a lot of a lot of nice big big fish
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coming in both walleye and northerns
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so you're seeing a noticeable difference
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of the lack of pressure versus
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the results of fishing is it's higher
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you can like actually notice that in one
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single season i i you know i think we're
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seeing it and i think over the longer
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term where we're gonna really uh notice
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it you know like you know we pretty much
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have uh
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you know had uh one year of no no
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fishing pressure on the lake i mean the
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fishing was great
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um but um you know it can only uh help
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right
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yeah yeah now what about a catch and
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release policy for up there is there
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do you guys have a certain number you
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can't keep or a size that you got to
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throw back or is there a large
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uh you know policy yeah so
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you know we throw back uh most of the
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fish right and especially
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you know the bigger ones so we're we're
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on the provincial slot size
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you know uh here on on the lake and
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in the fishing limits uh you know most
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people are
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are keeping the smaller ones to eat and
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and definitely
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uh we we strongly encourage uh you know
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to put the bigger ones back in the water
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for
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for another day right okay now
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yeah cause we ann's and i have obviously
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been to the lodge a few times i've been
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to a lot of lodges and all that and
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and normally at the end of the day
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boats get cleaned and they get re-gassed
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refueled and all that kind of stuff is
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there any extra
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measures now that cobit is you know
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prominent around
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you you have to sanitize a boat how does
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that work at all working out
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well we got about uh a 60-page manual to
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follow
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from uh from from from noto they did a
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lot of work you know i think
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most people if you were doing like the
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the cleaning it's
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um it's not so much in the boats because
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most people come
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you're in the same boat all week you've
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got the same life jackets the same
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equipment so that that's not so
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important but certainly
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to clean them between between guests the
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big thing is in the cabins and uh
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and being able to take out like
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everything comes out of the cabin to get
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done like all the linens like everything
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comes out the dishes everything
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goes through the the dishwasher we're
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only booking half the cabins one week so
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we can do the other half the next week
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but as far as like the general cleaning
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it's it's pretty much what
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people should normally be doing like
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cleaning your doorknobs and light
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switches
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right you know you know lodge were a
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little bit more careful going around
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washing doorknobs and
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and that type of thing a few times a day
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but uh
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people people everyone that's come
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they've all been very good everyone's
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being careful
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you see that people have to realize too
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that of all
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lodges that ange and i have ever been to
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we will say not because david's sitting
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right here with us it is the
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cleanest yeah in any day coleman or no
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cove but it won't
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matter who first got there like ang says
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he's a little bit anal when it comes to
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lodge cleanliness et cetera et cetera we
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could put the word diva
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around pretty much but but when we got
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there he
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he just looked at this place he said ah
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i'm in heaven look at this there's no
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dust in the corner there's no
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the place is already immaculately clean
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so i mean there's probably not a whole
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lot of difference during copen because
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the place is just that good so just to
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let everybody know how clean it always
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has been
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since i think the word neurotic
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okay good stuff justifiably so right
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i'd describe it to people um
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to to let them better understand what
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we're talking about and only people who
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are into
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cleanliness will understand this it is
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extremely difficult
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to clean floors in the corners
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so when you're doing your daily
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maintenance i know we shouldn't be
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talking about this on a fishing show but
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i think it's really cool
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where i associate a lot of you when you
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clean
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corners you know whether you're waxing
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them or cleaning floors
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it is really difficult to get in the
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absolute
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apex of the corner because because
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whatever you do is going to leave a
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round mark
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i'm telling you at lodge 88
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there is not a corner anywhere to be
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found
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that is not clean that's how you tell
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that's the difference between a really
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super clean
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uh place and one that's okay
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way out in the middle of nowhere that's
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the best part
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you know with that with my dad and uh
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you know making a big investment in new
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cabins and stuff
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you know so it's uh it's a lot easier to
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start from brand new than to
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to pick up with something that's you
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know 50 or 60 years old that's for sure
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well tell folks about that there's a bit
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of history here i i mentioned the fact
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that it's two and three generations old
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it's not something that just started
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yesterday but
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but in fact lodge 88 was completely
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rebuilt maybe you can sort of walk us
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through it a bit and give us a bit of a
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history on it
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sure so my grandfather showed up off the
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train with uh
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you know the the same train that we have
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now 60 some years ago
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um with a canoe and uh paddled up the
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lake he got almost uh a full mile
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found a spot and they were back the next
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year they bought the
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plant from the ministry of natural
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resources and came in and started
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building so i think 59 was the first
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year
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uh that they operated and uh you know
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over
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over time you know things uh you know
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standards change
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and uh we shut the property down in the
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late 90s
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and then came back a few years later and
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pretty much knocked everything down
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to rebuild cabins you know with with
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bigger bathrooms and uh you know bigger
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front rooms like the old cabins have
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basically enough room for a table and
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chairs and
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you know maybe a fridge and uh and the
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old bathrooms
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you know like it the they were just so
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small
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that they were you know it was just it
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just wasn't what people would
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be looking for today when they
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when your family first chose is
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how important on a scale of one to ten
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was the fishing
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in that lake in order to build right
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there was it like the oh my god this is
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it we're building because of this
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fishing or how's that
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yeah well i guess you know the story had
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as of my grandfather had to be fairly uh
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vociferous
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and uh and uh really press seminar and i
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think he pressed a few
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uh used a few political connections to
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get the land purchased they really
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didn't want to sell them the property
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uh on this lake they were steering them
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to another one uh but that was the whole
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thing you know he
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he saw this place and uh he he was
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tenacious and
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made sure that he had it so he was able
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to uh to buy five acres uh which at the
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time was unheard of
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um because even now like a lot of the
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the lodges and stuff they're
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under a land use permit and not on deed
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of property so
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uh you know that made it a a lot easier
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in a lot of ways um you know to operate
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uh
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you know because if you're not on deed
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of property how do you get a mortgage
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and that's so
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uh you know kudos to him you know he was
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uh you know he was he came out of the
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army
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and uh you know he uh you could see uh
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you know he put into practice what he
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learned in in the army and
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over in europe in world war ii uh
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the foresight that that was was needed
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to uh who who could have predicted
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what what lodge 88 has turned into today
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and i know we we banter this around all
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the time you know one of the greatest
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operations we think certainly
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uh in northern ontario probably all of
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canada maybe in north america
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and it's become legendary among uh folks
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who want the ultimate walleye fishing
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experience
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let's be honest about it you know that's
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that's really the the meat potatoes
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although you got some great northern's
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pike fishing although there there's an
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opportunical truck fishing although
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although although
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people come to lodge 88 because they
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want an opportunity
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to have at it with walleye and you have
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got some of the most incredible walleye
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fishing
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um that anybody could possibly ever
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experience
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we came up there the first time we shot
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and we shot the entire episode i believe
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i could be wrong but
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if not the entire episode certainly
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three quarters of the episode
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with the lodge in the shot the whole
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time
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i remember that yeah and that was our
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biggest fish in the episode the other
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stuff was a couple of pillars just
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we may want to show the rest of the lake
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we should do something because it all
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looks like it's all taking place
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right in front of david's place exactly
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so we're not going to lie to folks at
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this you know this is the uh
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the trip of a lifetime for everybody
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it's not
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it's not an inexpensive trip you are
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classified as a premium
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uh uh operator there's no doubt about it
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but
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worth it if you're looking for those
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extra things that some of them we've
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just mentioned you know
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the bigger rooms the cleanliness the
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food the food is we won't even get into
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the food
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but it is it is you know legendary yeah
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and now we've also said that the fishing
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is is beyond belief
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so it is worth the premium that one pays
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for that and i
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i only bring this up because i know
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during this
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pandemic and god only knows when we'll
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be clear of it
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um during this pandemic people are
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thinking
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well you know now's a good time to get a
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real deal
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we'll strong-arm those operators into
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giving their stuff away
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and uh and uh we're gonna get the best
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deal and we're gonna tell them we're not
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coming unless you
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you know give it to us for nothing kind
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of thing and and i always say it because
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i've heard
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rumblings to this effect from other
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lodge owners
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and i was very disappointed when i heard
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that because
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you know we as anglers should as adults
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should be able to put two and two
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together and figure out that
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your community the outfitter lodge
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owners resort owners
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guides that whole industry
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is is so severely hit with this pandemic
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we have no idea
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we have absolutely we have no inkling
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of how bad it is in the north and so
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i i want i say that because i want to
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urge people watching us today
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not to be of the mindset that wow this
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is going to be a great opportunity to
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get a real
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deal on a trip rather maybe we need to
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start looking at it
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that this is a great opportunity for us
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as anglers to maybe
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give something back and and maybe
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you know we can kill two birds with one
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stone maybe maybe we can have
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the experience of a lifetime
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um help an industry and help
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families from the north get through this
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pandemic by saying
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you know this year i'm not going to be
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going away obviously i'm not going
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anywhere
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out of the country let alone the
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province maybe i should book my family
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vacation this year
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with places like yours and that's what
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we want to encourage in fact
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we are on the cusp of of um
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unveiling a new area a new place
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on fishingcanada.com that's going to be
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devoted entirely
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to operators and lodges and guides
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and resorts and on it we're going to
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encourage
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folks we're going to incentivize them
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there's no doubt about it
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but we're going to encourage folks to
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support our
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communities in the north our families in
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the north
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our operators are the north and uh and
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maybe spend a little bit of money here
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uh at a time when you know we we need we
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need the perfect excuse
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to give back and there's none better
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than this
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so um i i want to um offer you an
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opportunity
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to put your product on fishingcanada.com
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we want to tell the whole story i want
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you to write the whole
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story what we just spoke about i would
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love for you
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and and i know i'm putting you on the
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spot i would love for you
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to uh maybe maybe donate
18:49
a free trip that we can give away
18:52
somehow
18:52
on fishingcanada.com and i'd also like
18:56
you to consider uh for folks who book
19:00
on fishingcanada.com uh to maybe give
19:03
them something
19:04
for it and i don't know what i'll leave
19:06
that up to you i don't know what that
19:07
would be
19:08
but give them an opportunity to feel
19:10
good about making the right decision
19:12
to come and visit you because we can
19:13
tell them
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i can tell them for sure that it'll be
19:17
the trip of
19:18
a lifetime they will be altered
19:21
for the rest of their life after they
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spent some time at lodge 88
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you need to maybe do something just to
19:29
to push that over the top for them
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sure oh 100
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yeah no thanks uh thanks for the
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opportunity you guys have been so good
19:37
to us over the years
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you know anything anytime you need you
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just let us know and
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and i think a lot of people have trouble
19:44
you know when we're talking about the
19:45
price point is they don't understand
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that the price really reflects the cost
19:49
of doing business in the north
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and remote and remote and you know as
19:54
bad as it is this year like you know my
19:56
brother at the air base like their their
19:57
airplane insurance went up 50
19:59
this spring just 55-0
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and so you know it's uh it's it is
20:06
it you know the costs are high when
20:08
you're everything you do
20:09
involves uh you know float planes but
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yeah i know that that's great and i
20:14
really appreciate it and uh for sure
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yeah we'll sweeten the pot for you
20:19
awesome we'll put something together and
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let you know and let the audience know
20:24
how when and where but um if we just
20:26
move quickly
20:28
to your other uh put on your other hat
20:30
if you will as
20:31
executive director of destination
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northern ontario first of all tell folks
20:35
what that is
20:37
so we're funded through the the ontario
20:39
government and specifically the ministry
20:41
of heritage sport tourism and culture
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industries
20:44
and the only way i can remember that is
20:46
that hst criminal investigation
20:49
um and uh yeah so we're responsible for
20:52
uh developing tourism opportunities
20:54
across northern ontario
20:56
so that's product uh training marketing
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and
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investment and so obviously uh you know
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this year has been tough for us uh
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across the sector but uh i will say um
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you know we we did tour with the
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minister last week five days across the
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north
21:11
and there's some aspects of the industry
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that have come back now certainly
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you know the angling side is continues
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to suffer
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as does uh you know some of the uh you
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know the hotels and restaurants in town
21:23
but along the highways things are busy
21:25
and uh you know things things have come
21:27
back people are touring
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uh you know the the province i mean
21:31
we've got nowhere else to go
21:33
but um you know the big thing for the
21:34
north is the loss of the
21:36
the u.s market and we know why the
21:38
borders closed and
21:39
we hope that uh you know for next spring
21:42
that uh
21:43
things get better uh in the u.s where we
21:45
can you know
21:46
open the border safely but that's a half
21:49
a billion dollar hit
21:51
uh to northern ontario this summer uh
21:53
without the us
21:54
visitors like 500 million dollars to the
21:57
lodges yeah
21:58
oh my god think about that a half a
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billion dollar hit
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just boom one segment
22:05
of business you know that's one segment
22:07
of the so how much money
22:09
is is being hit by the you know my guys
22:13
this is crazy um
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like the north is uh you know the north
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is uh
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you know hard hit here but uh you know
22:24
look at the big cities in in ontario
22:26
like uh toronto
22:27
like downtown toronto right now the
22:29
occupancy in the hotels in downtown
22:30
toronto
22:31
is under eight percent oh my god
22:34
so you know the travel and tourism has
22:36
taken a big hit
22:39
yeah for sure i understand speaking of
22:41
which uh you had
22:42
minister macleod up there last week
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yeah yeah we got to travel uh uh you
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know we started in sudbury went over to
22:49
north bay we got her in the float plane
22:51
uh
22:51
we went paddling out in lake superior um
22:54
you know made it as far as thunder bay
22:56
and
22:56
did some more uh paddling up there at
22:58
fort william
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and uh she did what she's missed and uh
23:03
so anyways the plans are she's coming in
23:04
september to uh to go fishing
23:06
uh for three days so uh we'll we'll see
23:09
if that comes to be but
23:10
uh wonderful wonderful lady um you know
23:13
caring
23:14
um uh you know can't say enough about
23:17
her
23:17
and the support that she's given us over
23:19
the last few months and through the
23:21
pandemic
23:22
or even the the government in general
23:24
like you know for the ministry of
23:25
natural resources
23:26
to come out and um you know for the
23:29
outfitters that are with land use
23:30
permits to be able to stay those fees
23:33
um you know there's outfitters that are
23:35
that that's forty fifty thousand dollars
23:37
that they just don't have this year
23:38
and um you know they're they're doing
23:40
everything they can and i know
23:42
um a lot of people are looking for them
23:44
to do more but
23:45
um you know the need is just so great
23:47
right now there's just
23:48
i just don't think there's enough money
23:50
to uh you know to
23:52
to support people it you know to to what
23:54
they need so
23:56
in a lot of ways uh you know we're like
23:58
everyone we're we're figuring this out
23:59
as we go along
24:01
and all the more reason why we need to
24:03
take matters
24:04
into our own hands when it comes to our
24:06
northern
24:07
uh areas of the province and we need to
24:09
support them because
24:11
because if we don't they won't be there
24:13
and that's why we as
24:15
anglers outdoors people in general need
24:17
to look
24:18
deep down inside and see how we can
24:21
prop this up and and help support you
24:24
guys and
24:24
uh i know we can i know we can make a
24:27
difference
24:28
and it won't be at a cost that we can't
24:31
support
24:32
uh somehow we're going to pull this all
24:34
under the fire i'm sure
24:36
yes and uh and have a great time and
24:39
have a great time to boot and experience
24:41
something exactly
24:42
and the fishing is going to get better
24:44
that's right yeah
24:46
david we've run uh over time but more
24:48
importantly we've taken
24:50
way too much of your time um we
24:53
so uh truly appreciate uh being able to
24:56
call you our friend
24:57
and more importantly appreciate uh the
24:59
job that you've done
25:00
uh in northern ontario we look forward
25:03
to uh
25:04
to being up there with you soon and uh
25:07
who knows uh
25:08
when we're gonna be back on the road but
25:10
we will get back on the road at some
25:12
point trust me
25:13
first year before i'm talking about
25:17
how we can work together to support this
25:19
industry because
25:21
i think times have changed in uh and uh
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yeah i think you guys have some really
25:25
good ideas that
25:26
we'd like to be along there with you
25:28
perfect
25:30
thank you for joining us my friend wait
25:31
wait wait wait wait wait we're gonna do
25:33
a lightning round with mr david remember
25:35
before you're not getting out of that
25:37
now biola
25:45
i forgot so our walking around is just
25:48
quick questions
25:49
if you can give us a really a one-word
25:51
answer or something really basic it's
25:52
just gonna be a few questions that and i
25:54
put together and the reason why i'm
25:55
laughing
25:56
is because i was talking to ange and i
25:57
had some change dave was supposed to be
25:59
on i had chondra's questions
26:00
and then bucky went oh i gotta get some
26:01
buck questions all about fishing and
26:02
then he says what about david you gotta
26:04
leave david up we're gonna do david here
26:06
don't worry
26:10
if you have any or not but uh david
26:12
really quickly
26:13
in one word do quick answers whatever
26:14
you got what is the most
26:16
targeted fish species in northern
26:18
ontario
26:20
walleye i think that's a no-brainer but
26:23
i just wanted to make sure that one
26:25
what is the largest wall
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i'm gonna say there was one um
26:37
that was about 16 pounds caught back in
26:39
the 70s
26:42
oh 16. it's a big
26:46
smallish there's a big fish yeah
26:49
oh my god okay what is the more popular
26:53
method of transportation to lodge 88
26:56
train or plane i'm going to say
26:59
train um by just a little bit okay
27:03
that's interesting i thought it'd be by
27:04
a lot but what is the
27:06
and you might not know this but i'm sure
27:08
you you might have a good idea but what
27:09
is the farthest
27:10
north drive to fishing lodge in ontario
27:14
is there wonderful fishing lodge in
27:17
northern ontario
27:19
i'm going to say probably it's got to be
27:22
up
27:22
around red lake uh up up in that area
27:24
there's some uh
27:25
drive-in drive-in lodges uh or even a
27:28
boat in
27:29
um that that's got to be the furthest
27:31
north and
27:33
you know maybe with ring of fire that'll
27:34
change
27:36
are you assuming you know the answer to
27:38
this no i don't i have no idea
27:40
i think i were there and i believe it's
27:42
pickle lake
27:44
pickle yeah
27:49
okay my final question to david this
27:51
one's a good one okay i like this one
27:53
is there genuine legitimate authentic
27:57
royalty in the blood of the queen of the
27:59
north carol caputo
28:03
i knew angela would you put me on the
28:06
spot
28:09
obviously obviously there's got to be
28:12
something there somewhere
28:17
i'm sure it's there she's gonna hate me
28:20
for throwing that question out there but
28:21
i had it
28:23
she couldn't she's gonna text me and
28:25
tell me i'm an ass again
28:28
for sure oh i should probably text all
28:30
of us on that one
28:33
anyways david uh we appreciate you
28:35
joining us my friend
28:36
uh i wish you and terry all the best up
28:38
there and
28:40
um let's work together and get this
28:41
thing off the rails back on the rails
28:43
and and
28:44
get moving and sell some some beds and
28:47
thank you very much for your offer of
28:48
the contest david that's much
28:50
appreciated so
28:51
no hundred percent thank you you guys
28:53
have a good week
28:55
you checked everybody uh david
28:57
mclaughlin uh
28:58
executive uh director with
29:01
destination northern ontario and owner
29:04
of uh
29:05
one of the premier operations in this
29:07
country for sure
29:08
lodge 88 uh on the snogi and it you know
29:12
by the way i never had him explain why
29:14
it's called lodge 88 but he didn't
29:15
mention that earlier on
29:16
when he was talking about the rail
29:17
service because it's on mile marker 88.
29:20
but what happens the train stops at mile
29:23
marker 88
29:24
in the middle of nowhere and
29:28
you get out now when all those guys
29:30
brought that beer up on that train that
29:32
was quite
29:32
just a an unloading of gear that time
29:35
was that oh my god
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