2025! HONOURING THE FISHING STORY.

2025! HONOURING THE FISHING STORY.

How do we honour this time we have? Friend recently said, “the stories we tell about ourselves are important.” Yeah, sure! Maybe that is how?! My father said years ago as well, “you have to toot your own horn Drew, can’t expect others to do it for you.” Simply put,...
TO BE MINDFUL OF MUSKIES…

TO BE MINDFUL OF MUSKIES…

An early September full moon, the calendar had been marked up with ink months in advance to signal the arriving muskie season. After a summer whirlwind of fishing and work gone by, there was hope enough fuel would remain for what is always the toughest physical and...
NIPIGON DOUBLE TAKES.

NIPIGON DOUBLE TAKES.

Brown, white, red, yellow and blue, along with the Pointer Sisters doing the Neutron Dance and Tina singing “you’re simply the best,” during our early departure from home it was all the potato colors that were on our morning minds… and some lucky socks on the...
A NUNAVUT NOMAD XI. “ANY CHANCE FOR CHAR!”

A NUNAVUT NOMAD XI. “ANY CHANCE FOR CHAR!”

A take off north out of Yellowknife destined for Nunavut came just a week after leaving Yellowknife and Great Bear Lake. Travel travel, I was beginning to unravel. Had received a 26 day contract in a familiar community named Taloyoak. Five years had passed since last...