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Temagami By DAVE BROWN The numbers 46.967192 degrees latitude


and -80.018771 degrees longitude may represent just coordinates on a map, or just a spot on the screen to a GPS user. But to Brian, Dan, Don, Dave, John, Greg,


Mitch, Moe, Paul, Roger, Ross, Tim and Wayne, they represent one week of fun and camaraderie between a group of guys in a place called Paradise, or a place that is better known to many as “Lake Temagami”. If you have never been to Lake Temagami,


you need to place this destination on your “bucket list” of vacation places to visit. Lake Temagami is situated 100 km north of


North Bay along Hwy #11 in Northern Ontario, or the Mid-North as the road signs entering North Bay like to remind us southerners. The lake is irregularly shaped with five


arms of approximately 10 km each. It contains more than 1,200 islands, has one of the largest shorelines of any lake in Ontario, is home to


the Temagami Anishnaabe First Nation who reside on Bear Island, and contains countless fish which is what first attracted us to the area in 1982. The lake’s name comes from Te-mee-ay-


gaming, which means “deep water by the shore” in the Ojibwa language. There are many deep spots in this lake which is why it is renowned for its lake trout fishery. June 2011 represents the 30th


year


anniversary that Mr. Warren (Brian) (or “Bounder”, as we called him − and now the origin of the name for this magazine) and a number of his friends, including myself (“Super Dave”), have been going to Lake Temagami to fish, relax and have some fun. It is this milestone, in the lives of a group of friends, some of whom are now dispersed across the globe, that we take time to celebrate in this − our fourth edition of Bounder magazine. It’s hard to believe that 30 years have


passed so quickly! It seems like yesterday when we used to jump into Brian’s “K-Car”, usually at some horrible time in the morning, and start towing his 14’ Sterling aluminum fishing boat (that was equipped with one of the first 10 hp Honda outboard motors that were ever produced) on our way up Hwy 17 toward Lake Temagami. And believe me, wherever we went, that


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Honda motor got many the stare from those Mercury, Evinrude and Johnston outboard motor owners. The conversation usually started out with: “What’s that thing?” But this was Brian’s, or should I say, our, “Rig’, and we were proud of it. In those early years we could hardly drive fast enough in anticipation of what awaited us


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