September 10 2009
(A couple photos from the mouth of Ghost River)
(Ghost River Bay)
(My Canoe from the bay)
We returned to camp around 6pm ate smoked sausages for supper and went to bed, before falling asleep I decided to check the weather on Weather Radio Station Ramore on my Yaesu VX-7R and learned that thunderstorms were rolling in for the next couple days starting on the 12th in the afternoon, not good news.
Sept 12 2009
I woke everyone up around 6am so we could beat the storms and we set off around 715am we went through
all the obstacles and this time I got photos 
of the big log jam.
On our way back up the river it almost seemed like the water was even lower, we had to jump more logs going up than coming down but, we made it. Even though I didn't catch any fish I had fun in the fact that I spent time in the woods and got to see Lake Abitibi finally, I'm definitely planing a couple trips there in 2010.
My friends Luke and Pat and myself left South Porcupine for our canoe trip down Ghost River to Lake Abitibi.We arrived at the boat launch at around 2 pm and left immediately, right away we met with some difficulties with shallow water and submerged logs which slowed us slightly. About a half an hour down the river we came across our first log jam . After a bit of scurrying we bypassed it and came across several others (which I wasted lots of time trying to cut through) of small to medium size which was discouraging due to the canoe report said nothing about the jams (Don't trust reports) so we continued and then came the big one it was about 30 trees laying over the river.It took us quite some time to bypass this one because there was 3 meters of near vertical clay banks on the sides and a deep runoff of soft black muck to crawl through.But we made it, after climbing down a conveniently placed tree (equipped with handholds and all) we set of again and encountered no more real problems until nightfall (which due to my lolly gagging with the small jams and my saw came soon after the marsh)We had a heck of a time spotting the boat launch we were going to be camping at, after awhile we spotted a parked trailer's reflectors and we were at our spot.That was around 9:45pm, so we set up camp Luke in his hammock and me and Pat in the tent.Pat got the fire started while Luke and I set camp and we ate a supper of jalapeno sausage meat chili drank tea and slept.
(Ghost Mountain from Ghost marsh)
(A really bad photo I took of our fire I had the camera set to slow exposure)
Sept 11 2009
We woke up around 8 am and set out for Lake Abitibi and within 10 minutes we were there, we were quiet for a bit taking in the size of Abitibi ( 931 km2 {359 sq mi} ) it was quite the sight
(A couple photos from the mouth of Ghost River)
We were trolling and casting in the canoe until Luke noticed his paddle was hitting bottom so we hopped out of the canoe and walked it to the shore and gathered our fishing gear.To our amazement the bottom of the entire bay was beach sand with occasional rocks and was only waist deep.So we spent the entire day walking island to island and casting.We didn't even get a bite but we were too shallow for much anyway.
(Pat an Luke wading to the island I'm on)
(My Canoe from the bay)
We returned to camp around 6pm ate smoked sausages for supper and went to bed, before falling asleep I decided to check the weather on Weather Radio Station Ramore on my Yaesu VX-7R and learned that thunderstorms were rolling in for the next couple days starting on the 12th in the afternoon, not good news.
Sept 12 2009
I woke everyone up around 6am so we could beat the storms and we set off around 715am we went through
all the obstacles and this time I got photos 
of the big log jam.On our way back up the river it almost seemed like the water was even lower, we had to jump more logs going up than coming down but, we made it. Even though I didn't catch any fish I had fun in the fact that I spent time in the woods and got to see Lake Abitibi finally, I'm definitely planing a couple trips there in 2010.
