Happy Landing Lodge on Pipestone Lake

[Fitch]

>Carol,
>
> Actually very few lakes in the area south of Dryden, east
>of L.O.T.W.'s, west of Atikokan, and north of Fort Frances,
>are remote in your terms. Roads, cabins, lodges, camps, and
>progress have been happening for a long time around here.
>Tourists have learned that locals can and do fish these
>waters also. It's too bad you feel disapointed to see
>us(locals) on the same lake (Straw and Sucan) as you, but
>this is not going to change.
>
>If any lodge owner in this area tell you otherwise
>(private), then they are selling you something that doesn't
>or should exist. Common sense should prevail here. A true
>remote fly in does exist, but that is quite a bit north of
>here. Where there are virtually no people and no roads,
>there is also the feeling of privacy. It simply does not
>exist where most of the residents in the area live. Please
>do not feel disapointed to see us fishing our waters, and we
>will not feel the same about you.
>
>Local yocal,

Also if you only want to drive as far as Fort Frances and fly you could go to Rusty Myers and fly to the Savant lake area. They have some remote fly-ins but remember that some of these my have other outpost camps on the same lake. Be sure to ask and I think you will get a honest answer.

Fitch

[Fitch]

This will be my third year owning this lodge and in two full
summers not one of my guests has ever fished at night. We do
all of our walleye fishing on three lakes named Straw,
Sucan, and Yoke Lakes. They are located behind my lodge and
take between 2 to 10 minutes to get to. The only way to fish
these lakes is to stay at My lodge or at Slippery winds
lodge, which is located on straw lake.


Matt Koerbitz
Happy Landing Lodge



local yocal
Guest User
Feb-18-03, 08:14 AM (CST)

17. "RE: EYES WIDE OPEN - HOW DID YOU MISS HAPPY'S BANNER?"
In response to message #15

Straw and Sucan lakes can be accessed from a public road
called "Cedar Narrows Road". Backed my boat in many times. I
hate it when lodge owners say they have the only access
around (private).
I am calling big Baloney on this on. This area is not
remote.

Carol
Guest User
Feb-18-03, 12:20 PM (CST)

23. "RE: EYES WIDE OPEN - HOW DID YOU MISS HAPPY'S BANNER?"
In response to message #17

The truth always works out better and that is completely
obvious here.
I would have to say that I would be unhappy to be told I am
on a remote lake and see boats from Fort Frances fishing on
the lake. Not that far away. A little disappointed


I am not sure Carol but I didn't see any thing on his
website saying that Pipestone is a remote lake. Did Matt say
this? Maybe some of the other guests that actually stayed
there since Matt took over could post there honest
experiences and let us know if they would return to Happy
Landing Lodge

Fitch
>

Sounds pretty remote to me huh fitch. this is not
mis-leading in any way now is it. You can post anything you
want on this site but it seems that you are attacking people
for stating thier opinions and facts. By the way, nice
smart ##### post about keeping secrets. Yes i have a small
side hobby/business that I PURPOSELY won't mention on this
board because that would be spamming and i repsect this
board and the fellow fisherman on it to do that. I hate it
when lodge owners or any other owners spam and I certainly
won't do it.

This venture I have is to help fisherman with honest
opinions based on mine and others experience and to help
fishermen being mis-lead by lodge owners who tell them what
they want to hear in order to get bookings.
since I have been assured by the web master on this board
that he did not give you any information about me (and I
belive him), I was wondering how you found out so much about
me considering I posted as guest user with my middle name?
I will find out and I hope it was not done illegally. You
have taken this personel attcking to another level which it
did not need to go. How dare you insult and attack somebody
perosnally for posting thier opinion. If you did that to everyone on this board then who would want to post opinions
to help anybody? It's one thing to disagree with somebody
but it's horrible when you attack personally. You don't
know me as person and thank god you never will. I wish you
the best as i will not post on this topic again.

I am trying to figure out who wrote this last part of the post and if they are refering to me? If so what are you talking about?
Fitch

I don't give a hoot if you are on the lake, I just don't like the guy who owns the place saying the only way to get there was to go through his place. So take it easy.

I don't care if you are on the lake, I might come over and ask you for some fishing help. But I don't like the lodge owner telling us that it is a remote lake when there is a road to it.

He never said Remote, and he never said he had the ONLY place on the lake system. And once again, if a guy was gonna drive 1500 miles to go fish there and he used the road access, where is he gonna stay? You are hiding an isue here maybe? Got an axe to grind?