by A Bunker | Oct 30, 2019 | HOME ANGLING
Our boat no sooner reached the end of the Niagara River at Lake Ontario when it became quickly evident we were in over our heads. The strong meeting of the river and lake currents plus the winds converging at “The Bar,” waves built high enough that we were falling in...
by A Bunker | Aug 1, 2019 | HOME ANGLING
Past two years for gar fishing have been a bit odd. This season due to record ice-out flood levels the Ottawa River closed to boating in early spring, this would cut into some quality time usually spent on the water. Once the river finally opened, I remember having...
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 | 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...
by A Bunker | May 31, 2018 | HOME ANGLING
No question how much I have loved fishing from a Lund tiller the past eight years. Anyone reading the odd story or following along has probably seen “The Bomber” a time or two. There has been no doubt in mind how awesome an all around multi-species boat I...
by A Bunker | Nov 20, 2017 | HOME ANGLING
An arctic blizzard is building. Sunday shoppers are picking the shelves clean of whatever pop and chips are left. There won’t be fresh groceries either, not for at least a few more days here in stormy Nunavut. Outside the Co-Op store a pick-up drives by, through...
