by A Bunker | Aug 21, 2022 | HOME ANGLING
The start of summer came in like a derecho, hard, fast and heading straight at me. Bunch of fishing all over, travel, a cottage rental, reunion thingy, I was a busy boy for weeks! And yet, this different little diddy of a story kinda blew on in at the tail end of all...
by A Bunker | Jul 31, 2022 | HOME ANGLING
The Ottawa River is home to Canada’s biggest and baddest longnose gar. Look through the OFAH online registry and you will see the history of claimed fish dating back to 1994, when a first gar was brought to the scale. That fish, and every one of ’em since,...
by A Bunker | Apr 16, 2022 | HOME ANGLING
When the red and white bobber would drop it was like the whole world would stop just for that moment. Everything else going on around, others talking, birds chirping, traffic in the distance, it wasn’t there anymore. The only thing present was me, a fishing rod and...
by A Bunker | Mar 27, 2022 | HOME ANGLING
Remember some years ago when living in the north how I could argue with anyone that the best tasting fish we have in Ontario is the walleye. Of course, that was simply a naive sentiment considering I had never eaten crappie before. We’re a fortunate part of the...
by A Bunker | Jan 23, 2022 | HOME ANGLING
Fishing and travel is what this is about. Balancing a life in the north and south, pointing a moral compass, maintaining some sanity, and fighting the clock while experiencing all that’s possible. This past year I visited Nunavut’s highest north, most east and...
by A Bunker | Nov 22, 2021 | HOME ANGLING
Had been sitting in this dark, dingy apartment for a couple weeks, my thoughts wandering in and out of a season ahead muskie fishing. It was during late January past, at the top of the word, in truly the furthest-most northern town a person can go, so when I said dark...
