Fishing at Delaney Lodge in Ontario

Yesterday I wrote about my 80 year relationship with Willard. One of our experiences was a fishing trip to Canada in the fall of 1987. We drove our Motor Home. On our way we stopped near Slayton, MN and visited with people Willard had worked with during wheat harvest the summer after graduating from HS. We saw the Minnesota Twins beat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 on a  HR in the bottom of the 9th by Tom Brunansky. We drove 451 miles the next day through International Falls and on to Kenora, Ontario. The next morning we were flown in a WW II era plane to Delaney Lodge, about 45 miles NE of Kenora. Our cabins were quite primitive but the fishing was excellent. We had 4 days of fishing with Indian guides in each of our 2 boats. They cleaned the fish and fixed excellent "shore lunches". Elaine was the first one to catch a fish which was a Northern about 2 feet long and the guide tossed it back saying, "Too small".  We fished on the English River which was like a big lake with numerous islands. One day we saw smoke raising from one of the Islands and went over to help put out a fire that had gotten out of control. We drove home on I-29 after driving over to near Winnipeg. It was on the "cut-off" around Winnipeg that Willard was driving, the ladies were in the back part of the Motor Home and I was asleep in the passenger seat. It was during the "sleepy" part of the day and Willard dozed off for a minute; we found ourselves off the side of the road down an incline of about 15 feet. It was Willard's skill in driving that he didn't panic, gained control , took the rig on down the incline and then back up on the highway without any consequence. It was a great trip, and we brought back a big batch of frozen Walleye.