Bow Narrows Camp Blog on Red Lake Ontario

Bow Narrows Camp is a fishing lodge on Red Lake, Ontario, Canada. Anglers fish for northern pike, walleye, lake trout, whitefish and ling or burbot. The camp is 20 miles by boat from the nearest highway. This fishing resort has been in existence since 1948.

Monday, January 31, 2011

They really should call this Sunrise Country

Jerry Purcell of Cedar Falls, Iowa, took this fabulous shot of a sunrise last summer right in the narrows where camp is located. What a stun...

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Lynx tracks one of Ontario's rarest sights

There was a rare sight in our front yard yesterday morning. As I was snowblowing the driveway I discovered the tracks of a lynx . This cat i...

Friday, January 28, 2011

This angler has a keen eye for wildlife

Bow Narrows angler Doug Billings found a lot of photography subjects during his trip to camp in 2010. These are just a few of the stunning i...

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Caribou tufting one of our cabin's wall hangings

There are some interesting things hanging on the walls of the cabins at Bow Narrows Camp. Several cabins have antlers or animal rugs on the ...

Monday, January 24, 2011

One of the jobs to put camp away in the fall

When we close camp in the fall there are a lot of things to do. Some are pretty obvious such as pulling out the boats and winterizing the wa...

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Casting strategies for catching northern pike

Casting for northern pike is, in my opinion, the most productive method of catching these tremendous gamefish. It sounds simple -- cast an ...

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Kicksled my favorite way to go ice fishing

Our son, Josh, skis on a kicksled across Whitefish Lake, Ontario , on his way to an ice fishing spot. For nearly 10 years now I have used ...

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Timber wolves begin whitetail deer hunt

No sooner do I speculate that it's time for timber wolves to appear on the scene to go after the whitetail deer behind our house than ...

It's time for all registered guests to send deposits

Everyone who has made reservations and not yet secured them with a deposit should have now received a letter from me. If you have not gotten...

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Deer "treats" just out of reach of this buck

My trail cam captured this buck in Nolalu . The deer have eaten virtually everything palatable to them within reach including the leaves of ...

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Beautiful sun dog in field this crisp morning

This was the scene in front of our home in Nolalu, ON just after sunrise this morning. The " sun dog " appeared to be right in ou...

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Top-down method of lighting a wood fire

Here's a great way to light a fire in a wood stove that works every time yet boggles the mind. It's called the top-down method . S...

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Red Lake's walleye population is sky-high

Walleye were so numerous and aggressive on Red Lake, Ontario last summer, and for that matter, for the last several summers, that many tim...

Friday, December 31, 2010

Stromatolites another reason Red Lake is special

As I understand it, the earth was created about 4.6 billion years ago. Then, about a billion years later, the first cyanobacteria (also cal...

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Check out West Red Lake Mining Museum

Make sure you check out the West Red Lake Mining Museum this summer. This self-guided museum is largely finished after being under construc...

Monday, December 27, 2010

How to prevent Gulp Alive jars from leaking

A lot of people have found Gulp Alive baits to work nearly as well as live bait; some say it's even better. But everyone hates the smel...

Friday, December 24, 2010

Merry Christmas from us at Bow Narrows Camp

Brenda and I and our dog, Sam, wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Our wish is that you will all have a joyous and peaceful ...

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The balsam fir -- call it the first aid tree

Growing just about everywhere in the Boreal Forest are balsam fir trees. Visitors to Bow Narrows Camp might know these from their massive ...

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Never use treble hooks for bait fishing

If there is one fishing regulation I would change it would be this: I would make it illegal to use treble hooks for fishing with live or dea...

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Burlap bag simply the best for keeping fish

Angler Steve Wilhelm brings some fish in a burlap bag to the fish house at camp last summer. We have used burlap bags for keeping fish for ...

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Dan Baughman: Red Lake and Nolalu, Ontario, Canada; My wife, Brenda, and I retired as owners of Bow Narrows Camp in 2017 but still live in Northwestern Ontario, at our home in Nolalu in the winter and soon at our cabin on Red Lake near the camp. I grew up at this remote fishing/hunting wilderness lodge which was first created in 1948. My mom and dad, Del and Don, bought the camp in 1961. My family then operated the camp until 2017.

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