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01/24/2024 10:16PM
An Icon for sure. I took my 1st Quetico trip in 1979 and I used LaTourell’s as my outfitter. Stayed in one their A-Frames the night before my departure.
Jeep went over my maps and spent a lot of time with this first timer pointing out the best campsites and fishing holes. Jeep told me about his favorite big submerged reef in Bailey Bay. I caught a bunch of walleye on Jeep’s secret reef with his recommended leech and bobber setup. In fact, I netted my first 5 lb. walleye.
R.I.P Jeep
Jeep went over my maps and spent a lot of time with this first timer pointing out the best campsites and fishing holes. Jeep told me about his favorite big submerged reef in Bailey Bay. I caught a bunch of walleye on Jeep’s secret reef with his recommended leech and bobber setup. In fact, I netted my first 5 lb. walleye.
R.I.P Jeep
01/25/2024 02:13AM
Wally13: "An Icon for sure. I took my 1st Quetico trip in 1979 and I used LaTourell’s as my outfitter. Stayed in one their A-Frames the night before my departure.
Jeep went over my maps and spent a lot of time with this first timer pointing out the best campsites and fishing holes. Jeep told me about his favorite big submerged reef in Bailey Bay. I caught a bunch of walleye on Jeep’s secret reef with his recommended leech and bobber setup. In fact, I netted my first 5 lb. walleye.
R.I.P Jeep "
Love That !
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly
01/25/2024 09:21AM
Our introduction to Jeep LaTourell was in Bill Rom's book Canoe Country Wilderness. Rom described a trip to McIntyre Lake, one of Jeep's favorite Quetico lakes, and the trout reef there with Jeep as his guide. We were still using Cliff Wold back in the 1990's and for our first Quetico trip he drove us out to LaTourell's for a tow to Back Bay. Cliff roared into the parking lot there in one of his distinctive green and white vans honking the horn. It was probably 6 in the morning and Jeep came storming out of the office building swearing a blue streak "There are people trying to sleep here!" referring to all the folks in the resort's cabins. Cliff was chastened but later told us "Jeep's a good fella but he gets a little excited sometimes". Once we got to know the family Jeep warmed to us and we had many fascinating discussions with him after that. Among other things he told us he and his father used to haul a summer's worth of canned supplies into McIntyre and stash them in a cave there for later trips with clients. Once when he picked us up at Back Bay after a trip he asked one of our guys to drive a tow boat that was stashed there back to Moose Lake. It was a race all the way back and those boats could fly. (photo: late May, 2000)
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