Lodge History

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Pine Portage Lodge located on Kabinakagami Lake, Watson's Algoma Vacations year round Reservation office 1-800-363-4443 is located in Wawa, Ontario, Canada
In 1941 at the age of 18 Dick Watson Sr. joined the R.C.A.F. and went to serve his country. After four years of flying fighter planes and being shot down three times, he returned home in 1945 as a war hero. It was at this time that he decided to fulfill his dreams of starting a tourism business on Kabinakagami Lake using his military earnings. Dick and his wife Edna married in 1946 and together they began to build their future at Pine Portage Lodge.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

IT'S NOT TO LATE!!!!!

REMEMBER YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO BOOK YOUR 2010 FISHING/HUNTING VACATIONS AND LOCK IN 2009 RATES. CONTACT OUR OFFICE FOR DETAILS
1-800-363-4443 OR WATSONS@FISHTHEFINEST.COM


HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO OUR U.S. FRIENDS!!!!

Since we already celebrated our Thanksgiving back in October, we would like to Wish all of our U.S. friends a Happy Thanksgiving. Hope you all enjoy your Holiday and don't eat to much Turkey!!!!!!!

Monday, November 16, 2009

IS YOUR NAME ON THE WALL OF FAME!!!!!!!!

Here is our "GREAT WALL OF FAME" that we post every year at Pine Portage Lodge. The following is for our 2009 fishing season. Not everyone put their names on the chart that caught a big fish, and most of the ones that are posted where released back into the water. CONGRATULATIONS to all those that made the list and for those who didn't there's always next year!!!!! We hope we didn't miss spell or give the wrong weight or length, we tried to read what was put on the chart and since it is marked with black marker it can be hard to read. Let us know if there is any errors so we can correct them. If you forgot to send in your pictures, it's never to late to email them to us at watsons@fishthefinest.com



WALLEYE/PICKEREL 2009
May 15/09 D. Petty, MI 27" 6.5#
May 17/09 Daniel Reabok, MI 27.5" 5# to 7#
May 23, 2009 Chris Kowal, MI 25"
May 24/09 B. Woodruff, MI 22"
May 24/09 Dennis Bluhm, MI 27" 6#
May 25/09 Jason Charnley, MI 22"
May 26/09 Fred Hatfield, ON 25"
May 2009 Chas Ordind, MI 26"
June 10/09 Chris Silbaugh, IN 27"
June 15/09 Gene Plite, MI 25" 5.5#
June 20/09 Jeremy Ward, MI 22"
June 23/09 Mathew Andersen, IL 27" 5.5#
June 25/09 Mathew Andersen, IL 27" 5#
June 27/09 David Dapsi, MI 23.5"
June 25/09 Joe Dapsi, MI 23"
June 27/09 John McDonald, MI 27"
June 28/09 Gerrit Veltman, MI 25.5" 7#
June 28/09 Warren Veltman, MI 24" 6#
July 2/09 Deb Raider, OH 27.5"
July 6/09 Mike Broton, PA 27"
July 14/09 Walt Zachur, NY 24" 3.5#
July 20/09 Dean Kruse, IN 26.5" 10#
July 25/09 Lore Botham, MI 24.5" 5.5#
July 27/09 Craig Stephens, OH 28" 10#
July 31/09 Victor Beaton, ON 25" 6#
August 6/09 Dan Sivret, ON 25" 5#
September 11/09 David Cooper, GE 25" 5.5#



PERCH/WHITEFISH 2009

May 24/09 Peter Behncke, MI 9" Perch
May 25/09 Peter Behncke, MI 8" Perch
May 25/09 Perter Behncke, MI 20" Whitefish
June 21/09 Jim Paja, MI 11" Perch
June 26/09 Kraig Wilson, MI 12.5" Perch
June 28/09 Grant Veltman, MI 13" Perch
July 7/09 Ian Mathues, OH 13" Perch
July 7/09 Ian Mathues, OH 12.5" Perch



NORTHERN PIKE 2009
May 17/09 Andrew Remus, MI 33"
May 18/09 M. Plummer, IN 38"
May 19/09 Calvin Murdock, MI 44" 13#
May 22/09 Chris Kowal, MI 38"
May 24/09 B. Woodruff, MI 40.5" 9#
May 25/09 Ted Urban, VA 40" 12.5#
May 25/09 Jeff Cicotte,MI 38.5" 11/5#
May 25/09 Jason Charnley, MI 40"
June 8/09 Tom Payne, OH 35"
June 8/09 Howard Smitsch, MI 35"
June 8/09 Craig Riffel, MI 39"
June 8/09 Robby DeRosier, MI 37"
July 26/09 Jacob Moenickheim, TX 36" 8# (from a canoe)
July 27/09 Adam Stephens, OH 30"
July 31/09 Tyler Pellerito, MI 36"
August 9/09 Don Hill, OH 45" 20#
August 12/09 Terry Vollmar, OH 40" 18#
August 17/09 Ron Homrich 34" 9#
August 26/09 Mike Reed, MI 42" 17#
September 1/09 Steve Temple, OH 40"
September 3/09 Steve Temple, OH 44"
October 16/09 Andy Long, MI 35" 11.5#

Thursday, November 12, 2009

HERE THEY ARE!!!!!!!

The pictures we promised!! Taken by one of our long time visitors to Pine Portage Lodge the Galen Graham Party. We would like to thank them for all their efforts put forth in taking and sharing these GREAT WILDLIFE PICTURES.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Odum Party

The Odum Party was with us in July and had a great time. We did hear that they were pretty hard on their Guide though. After he took this picture he fell and hurt his back, but bounced back just fine. Hope you have a lot of good memories of this trip and we will see all of you back in 2010. We would also like to thank them for their kind words and to let them know that it is a pleasure to meet people like them. Thanks for sending the nice picture :)


July 29/09

Thank you for the wonderful week last week. The staff, the facilities, the food and the weather were all aligned into a Perfect Storm of fabulous proportions. Even though I cannot give you credit for the later listed item I can give you credit for the others. It has to be a tough job to maintain the staff and equipment at such a high level at that latitude. Your dedication shows.

The Odum Brothers

Monday, November 2, 2009

New Post!!!!

Hi Everyone!!!! We are in the process of doing a slide show of some awesome wild life pics. The Galen Graham party that has been with us for many, many years, sent us a link to their web album and some of the photo's of Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, Loon's they took this year at Pine Portage are unbelievable.

We will be posting this in a couple of days as soon as we get the pictures together. Mean while if there are any pictures you forgot to send us and you would like them posted on our web site, just forward them to us at watsons@fishthefinest.com and we will gladly do post them.

We look forward to hearing your fishing stories, comments or just receiving your pictures. So don't forget about us,we are sure there are a few out there that didn't send us anything yet.

Keep in touch we will post the wild life slide show asap.