by A Bunker | Aug 10, 2021 | TRAVEL
Red shirts hang outside many of the homes in Kugluktuk, Nunavut. A homegrown talent, the young actress Emerald MacDonald who starred in the movie “The Grizzlies,” was found murdered in a cabin out on the land, her murderer unknown and still hiding somewhere in this...
by A Bunker | Jul 12, 2021 | TRAVEL
Leah came along on the spring annual fishing trip, our daughter who lights up our world every day. And I can’t stop looking at the trip photos. Back in March I just threw it out there. “Kiddo, you wanna go to Nipigon with your mom and I this year?” “YEAH BOOMER!” She...
by A Bunker | Jun 13, 2021 | HOME ANGLING
The fishing seemed a bit of a tricky run this spring with all that’s been going on. Returning from the arctic after spending time in Qikitaarjuaq, a strong urge had taken hold to just get outdoors, on the water and start making a fresh season happen. While in the...
by A Bunker | Feb 20, 2021 | HOME ANGLING
Len and I had been fishing an hour and twenty minutes our first time on the St. Lawrence River when I caught a 56 inch muskie. Seven years, exactly one hundred days, thousands of miles and countless cranks of the reel, what have I learned since? And furthermore, what...
by A Bunker | Jan 1, 2021 | HOME ANGLING
Our family lived on an ice road or boat-to only island for eight years. Before that, I worked a year and half on a secluded fly-in Reserve in Northern Ontario. The past seven years, I have been jetting away to some of the most remote communities in Canada to stay and...