FREEZE FEEL REEL PEEL.

FREEZE FEEL REEL PEEL.

The season ending for me at home, nothing was more anticipated this winter than our traveling north to Nepigon for a final week of wilderness and fish. Friends Len, and Stevie Zebco were the two fellas who would complete our threesome. Up to the task of fishing...
JUST THE SPECKS.

JUST THE SPECKS.

. . . . . . . . Summer fishing ended after driving 2910 km’s for 9 days, 62 hours on the water, a warm monsoon before a cold frost, big winds & waves, starry campfires, a cozy sleeping bag & miles upon miles of hunting for speckled trout. A report not...
KESAGAMI REFLECTIONS.

KESAGAMI REFLECTIONS.

Reflections… . A calm apprehension while sitting with a warm coffee at Maurice’s kitchen table. Stealing the occasional glance from his window out over Lillabelle, and the fully loaded Cessna parked afloat at his dock, each passing cloud whispered of a...
NIPIGON’S VIRTUES.

NIPIGON’S VIRTUES.

The fire on, a warm scotch, and the kids playing upstairs, it’s while alone in the basement on some snowy winter night when trips like this one begin… . Nipigon’s rocky shorelines have been calling me back since first traveling there some short years...
GONE-NIP-TRIP-N-GONE!

GONE-NIP-TRIP-N-GONE!

Ultimately, this is why… . . . . … the awesome speck. . Day 1. NEW BEGINNINGS. A planned second trip out to western Ontario had been in mind since sometime late winter. Early season with newbies StevieZ and Mikey was a fresh and gnarly experience during...
KESAGAMI’S BAGE PIKE BREAKDOWN.

KESAGAMI’S BAGE PIKE BREAKDOWN.

Some weeks back after just returning home from a Northern fishing trip, my buddy Ian and I were messaging back and forth when he asked a seemingly simple question… “Why Kesagami?” Well, it might have been something I drank but, that evening memories...