by A Bunker | Feb 10, 2019 | TRAVEL
On a calm and rather dimly lit morning I arrived to the fishing spot, walked down the hill, and observed the water ahead. From a high vantage point it appeared the shallows below had char, and many were red. After three weeks of hoping and planning, plenty miles and...
by A Bunker | Dec 18, 2018 | HOME ANGLING
It’s a frosty Saturday morning end of November. Sitting here in Kimmirut Nunavut on Baffin Island, the Arctic bay ice below my apartment window is receding with the falling tide. It’s a beautiful site, inspiring, and so feeling motivated I figured the right time to...
by A Bunker | Sep 12, 2018 | TRAVEL
Feeding twigs and trash to a small fire, relaxed both feet were up on the blue kitchen Rubbermaid. Neighbors Statler and Waldorf, a pair of perched eagles from across the river kept watch. Mike was off in explore mode, still in sight wandering and fishing a couple...
by A Bunker | Aug 6, 2018 | TRAVEL
Exiting the plane in Rankin Inlet it hit me, that fresh, crisp, clean ocean air. In the distance under a blue sky, remaining see ice clung for life along the slow taper of the tundra’s barren shorelines. For early July the contrast between these two conflicting...
by A Bunker | Jun 30, 2018 | HOME ANGLING
“See ‘em there! You see them right? Right there, those shadows near the shore?” That is how it begins with gar. To the untrained eye, many fish on many a days are overlooked, totally missed, but once a first time angler fully focuses their peepers on one of these...
