Tim River, Algonquin Provincial Park - One of my favourites!

[@DennisRogersFeatheryournest]

Goes nice with first coffee... loons and coloured bush. Can't think of a better way to spend the last day of the year than watching canoe vids from a master in locations I know and love. Thanks Shawn..you make good calm and relaxing vids and you are definitely on bush time.

[@MySelfReliance]

+Dennis Rogers Thanks Dennis, I really appreciate the kind words. I'm having as much fun reliving the trips as I make the videos as you enjoy watching them. Happy New Year to you and your family.

[@abrenning2499]

Beautiful cinematography. Very talented in seeing and capturing a scene

[@jhana.2023]

Beautiful ! 😍

[@debrakellerman7364]

thank you for the relaxing videos Shawn

[@MikeProut]

Perfect! Thanks for sharing Shawn. Head there in two weeks hopefully.

[@giselecontassotdesayvre3965]

Magnifique !!😁

[@Milleislois]

Hi Shawn. Discovered your YT site this morning. I will certainly watch your videos over the next few weeks. Enjoyed your Tim River one as the wife and I canoe that area quite a bit in the 80's. Thanks for sharing.

[@MySelfReliance]

Thank-you, I'm glad you like them. Happy New Year!

[@RobFarrowATV]

Beautiful! Thanks for posting!

[@tombeckett4340]

Nice thanks

[@loriankeramaris791]

Hello! Just read your blog and loved watching this video. I was wondering what week/month of the year was this, with such great colours? I currently have a booking on Tim Lake 3rd week in September and wondering if it is too early for these type of fall colours? Also, for my hubby, how is the brook trout fishing in the fall? Anything good between access point and Rosebary or is the good fishing just much farther in the backcountry? Thanks so much for answering all these questions and your great channel!

[@harleywood72]

Thanks Shawn for taking the time to record and share these trips. Great inspiration for planning a spring trip. Nice to be able to get out as much as you do. Your solo canoe setup seems perfect. Would you recommend travelling the Tim upstream, towards Little Trout Creek? Looking for a loop some time in the spring.

[@MySelfReliance]

Hi Harley, I've travelled it both up and downstream. Upstream this past spring was easily manageable, but it did take more time and was exhausting since it had been raining for two days and the flow was way up. I would do it again though.

[@MySelfReliance]

I'm including the lower section from Little Trout to Longer Lake in my 2016 spring trip as well.

[@TaigaTurf]

This must be one of the highest lakes in the Province.. At nearly 1500 feet, it looks like a transition to low boreal ecoregion

[@eatemraw]

Love all your videos. What type of lures do you use for brookies in the spring?

[@kiwikiwi-om1zt]

Thanks MSR. Any thoughts about how the Tim would be from Queer to Shaw, and Shaw to Shippagew? Nice meander or mud slog? Trying to keep it nice enough so the others come back again!

[@MySelfReliance]

I can't think of any sections along that stretch that would be bad at this time of year. If you make it to Rosebary, you will be fine below there. I'll know more in 4 days - a friend is going through there this week.

[@kiwikiwi-om1zt]

Awesome! Thanks! Any idea if water levels navigable End Sept/Early October on the Tim? Or would one have to walk/line canoes?

[@MySelfReliance]

Wth? How ironic. I'm literally having that conversation with two other people right now! There is a low water advisory, but one of the guys I'm talking to said the North River is as high as it was in the spring right now.

[@MySelfReliance]

I'm trying to get out there in the next week or two as well and I am not concerned about it.

[@DennisRogersFeatheryournest]

Best of the New Year to you and yours as well Shawn. Easy winter so far and an early Spring would be nice. I'm quite near the mouth of the Credit and am still able to paddle a bit if the weather would clear up. Do you know if MCCrae is still open water and canoeable? Have you done the Black River?

[@MySelfReliance]

+Dennis Rogers The lakes pretty much froze overnight here a few nights ago, so McCrae will be partially frozen. Of course, McDonald will be half open because of the current. I've only paddled the south end of the Black near Cooper's Falls. I usually paddle the Coldwater River early and late in the season to clear out the cobwebs or harvest a duck or two.

[@DennisRogersFeatheryournest]

+Shawn James (My Self Reliance) Didn't know of the Coldwater..just checked it out on Google earth. Thanks for the MCCrae info...guess it will be a hike and camp. I also have only canoed the lower Black right after breakup last April. Good current but too short a run and I like a little more adventurous flow. Miss my days on the Churchill. Moose hunt?

[@MT-pi3ct]

what would be best? New Expedition Kevlar pack or 15ft Expedition Carbon?

[@nathanjones229]

1:18 what happens in the winter? they starve?

[@MySelfReliance]

a_legitimate_vegetable Not usually. They die of hypothermia when they loose too much hair from tick infestation, the wolves get them or they fall through the ice.

[@nathanjones229]

that makes sense.

[@dragansavic7066]

❤👍 Serbia

[@kenginter6112]

Which map is that?

[@scottengh1175]

Amount of loons makes me think of First Nation Spirits