What You Should Bring Mark Walters. Near our boat house in Chapleau.

Compulsory equipment for your boat which you should bring:

Please bring a life jacket for every person in your group. The life jackets must have the Department of Transport or Coast Guard approval label.

Please also bring a flashlight for each boat.

Please bring also the following items:

Food for a week. You can best buy your food at home where it is likely to be cheaper. After driving this far you will be tired and shopping at a strange store will be the last thing you need then. Visitors from the U.S.A. can bring two weeks supply through customs duty free. You can buy more here if you run short because there are a super market and a small grocery store in Chapleau.


Fishing equipment including landing net and fillet knife. Consider bringing for each boat a large plastic bucket for keeping fish while you are in the boat. Many a nice catch is lost because a stringer broke or a clip opened up. The buckets can do double duty as containers on your trip to and from Chapleau.

First aid kit

Ziplock bags for packing fish

Coffee filters (standard 8-12 cup, flat bottom)

Rain gear

Bath soap

Towels and face clothes

Toilet tissue

Dish towels, dish cloth, dish soap and scrub pads

Paper towels for kitchen use

Kitchen type trash bags (with ties). We suggest that you hang one from the hook which we have in the kitchen for that purpose. When full, just put the bag in the garbage can outside the door. Garbage pickup is daily.

To save your back, avoid packing excessively heavy coolers and boxes

If you want to fish after dark please bring a clamp-on navigation light. Our fishing boats are not equipped for night-time use