Dean Junkin Remembers His Grandfather Stan Nichols

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Dean Junkin Remembers His Grandfather Stan Nichols

KAWARTHA LAKES-The experience of hiring a guide and spending the day fishing on Pigeon Lake was shared by countless visitors to Bobcaygeon in the 1940s and 1950s. These fishing guides were a huge part of local culture—both in terms of the number of locals employed, “there were 60 guides on Pigeon Lake at one time in the 1950s”—and how much people seemed to enjoy fishing. In that era, fishing was one of the primary draws and just about every comm…