(FORTUNE Magazine) – Do you imagine the man in the corner office vacationing only in the Swiss Alps or swank resorts on the French Riviera? In many cases you'd be wrong. Many CEOs prefer to stay on the North American mainland. See above for some proof: holiday snapshots of Stanley Gault of Rubbermaid displaying an eight-pound walleye on Bobs Lake in Ontario, Canada, where the Gaults built a cabin; John Woodhouse of Sysco, a Houston food distributor, backpacking with his wife in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; and Mike Harper of ConAgra, with his wife and grandchildren in Snowmass, Colorado. Gault says of his cabin's setting: ''It's one of those rare places in the world that has literally stood still for the past 25 years.'' Many CEOs share his love of fishing. Texaco's James Kinnear even shares Gault's affection for Ontario. His target: smallmouth and largemouth bass. Don Tyson, top bird at Tyson Foods, a poultry company, goes deep-sea fishing in Australia at least once a year. His biggest catch: a 1,124-pound black marlin. Of course, some vacation spots better fit the popular image of where the boss unwinds. John Reed of Citicorp and Paine Webber's Donald Marron look for fun in the sun. Reed heads for his home in Jamaica. Marron frolics at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. Chubb's Dean O'Hare likes to go on African safaris with his wife and kids. At the other extreme: Bear Stearns's Alan Greenberg stays in New York City and his phone seldom rings. Says he: ''People know not to bother me.''