by A Bunker | Oct 1, 2013 | HOME ANGLING
On the actual day autumn arrived I was at home cleaning out the boat and sorting fishing gear after a long tour west for trout. The pike, laker and speckie boxes got set aside for other tackle that would begin my bass, walleye and muskie season. Planning ahead for...
by A Bunker | Jul 15, 2013 | HOME ANGLING
A Warship would fire its cannons harmlessly out to sea, until all ammunition was spent, to show that it was disarmed, signifying the lack of hostile intent. This naval custom quite adapted, “A Fifty Gar Salute,” chronicles the beginning to end of...
by A Bunker | Jun 30, 2013 | HOME ANGLING
Never met my mother’s father, the man who passed on his bum chin. In fact, other than a faded picture in memory and some sentimental genetics, sitting here today I can’t even think what his name is. A soldier in WWII he left this earth 20 plus years before...
by A Bunker | Apr 10, 2013 | HOME ANGLING
There was this faint little quiff of spring air that passed through the Valley ohhh… sometime between ice lakers 70 to 74, and with that came the premature storage of my alder branches and wife’s old earrings. Pretty well finished up with the trout harvest...
by A Bunker | Dec 20, 2012 | HOME ANGLING
Confessing how many days spent on the water this year would be admission to true fishing addiction. Work didn’t beat out play days by much, but hey, that’s the life right? 2012 was an interesting, trying and rewarding year during which the drive to travel,...
by A Bunker | Nov 15, 2012 | HOME ANGLING
On the heels of muskie fishing down on LSC, arriving home there was every intent to begin plying Quinte waters for some of those late season piggy walters. Problem was, a weeks worth of gnarly weather, along with work, had other ideas in store. I was forced to...