Harry Wismer narrates this late RKO SportScope about fishing up in New Brunswick. It's all fishing from canoes as folks in flannel set out on the rough waters from Loon Bay Lodge, to pole and paddle, to fish for bass on rivers in logging country.
Loon Bay Lodge is still there, still looking rustic from its site on the Internet, perhaps more rustic than it looked back then. I was never in New Brunswick, but the equivalent places in New York State, on Lake George and Lake Champlain, looked rustic because people wanted an inexpensive holiday, and rustic was cheap. If you wanted less rustic, you went to the Catskills, and if you wanted Urban, you went to Atlantic City and stayed near the Boardwalk, or Atlantic Beach, if you wanted to be on Long Island, which was nicer.
Loon Bay Lodge is still there, still looking rustic from its site on the Internet, perhaps more rustic than it looked back then. I was never in New Brunswick, but the equivalent places in New York State, on Lake George and Lake Champlain, looked rustic because people wanted an inexpensive holiday, and rustic was cheap. If you wanted less rustic, you went to the Catskills, and if you wanted Urban, you went to Atlantic City and stayed near the Boardwalk, or Atlantic Beach, if you wanted to be on Long Island, which was nicer.
