Billionaire for a day !

[UNCLEBUCK]

When I was 13 and 14 my dads boss sent my dad and I up to his personal fishing lodge where he and his close friend Willard Rockwell purchased 7 miles of river that flowed into the St.Lawrance seaway . Being a kid I had no idea of rich or poor but I can say we were jsut average poor country folk . Well when my dads boss and his fishing lodge partner willard rockwell would leave the lodge and go back to the states then my dad would put his bosses expensive fishing gear on and I would put on willard rockwells and we would fish on their 7 miles of river and sleep in the private quarters , I guess its the only piece of privately owned canadian land . The owner of american airlines owned it before my dads boss and before that was a man named wellington. The man on the right is willard rockwell , he is the rockwell of rockwell international like the name you see on tools and jets etc..  It my only 2 times to ever have a brush with severely rich and it was fun . The river I guess now has a road going to it up the coast from seven islands quebec but back then willard rockwell would fly in by helicopter across the st.lawrance from the states and land right at the river.  I know I will never get back as the trips were free but thought I would share it !  The workers and french guides all spoke french and they taught me how to snare rabbit and go goose hunting with a canoe paddle  ;D. I have alot of pictures to come to show the lodge !

Mr.Rockwell on the far right laughing from my dads dirty jokes while he took the picture


My dad wearing his bosses gear and holding a 14 pound atlantic salmon


All the french workers who are also guides and boat builders, trappers,sawyers,cooks, you name it them french dudes could do everything !

More to come in the days ahead ! Thanks

[asy]

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MORE!!!

This is just far too cool UB!

Waiting with baited breath!

Oh, and don't forget the photos of little buck!

By the way, who IS that handsome guy in your avatar???

asy :D

[Norm]

Cool stuff UB! Looking forward to more photos.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Very interesting thread Unk, Thanks for sharing.

Jon

[jon12345]

There is a guy here that is a millionaire, owns land on the opposite side of a very large block of land that I hunt on sometimes, because it is owned by the state.  I'm not sure how much he owns but I know he owns a nearly 400 acre lake, and several other small ones.  I heard that he is the guy who invented the magnetic strip on the back of credit cards.  My father used to clear land for him, and even though it was 'no hunting', his TC contender was always in the truck  :D  Now my cousins step father is the caretaker, and they get to go there whenever the boss is out of town and use the guys $3m+ cabin.   I better call my cousin trout season opens pretty soon  :D

Another guy who used to own a pretty large chuck of land, I think couple thousand acres, and a few ponds with monster bass in them mysteriously disappeared in the 70's or 80's on a hunt in Alaska.  Funny thing is they never found his plane  There is a guy or has been several guys looking after the land keeping everyone off it.  His name was Kogar, millionaire who was a pretty big part of the early development of computers, I think he was mostly in the data storage part with the punch card computers.  A couple years ago the state was trying to buy it, when they do I'm goin fishin 

[SwampDonkey]

Great thread uncle buck, we've had lots of the big wigs up here fishing salmon also. Nice pictures and stories. You got my full attention. Can I say anything else. Salmon fishing by canoe (guiding) was part of my grandfather's living for years. ;D