Thank you, thank you!! Lake Simcoe has been a (minnow) bucket list fishing destination of our for years. I have all of the items you mentioned so I do believe we are good. Drinking and driving isn't a problem, unless they will nail me for too much coffee. I have a good lake map, and we will be staying in Barrie. Any places we should try for perch? I am pretty mobile once we get set up, so drilling some extra holes to get onto the fish isn't a problem. I hope it isn't the same "north of the border" but I am always cleaning up some slobs mess they left on the ice over here. People like that give the lot of us a bad name. If you can take it out, pack it up and take it back....
Thanks again. Looking forward to the trip.