After many years of planning, the stars and planets were finally in their proper alignment, and I was about to make my first trip to the legendary Tree, or Kogluktualuk River in Nunavut, to fish for what are arguably the worlds biggest Arctic Char.
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“While the aforementioned Thymallus arcticus, or Arctic Grayling, clearly bears no resemblance to a salmon whatsoever, these scrappy little guys are actually members of the salmon, or Salmonidae family.
Fishing for Thymallus can be very frustrating at times, because they have this annoying habit of either being excessively compliant – they will at times attack a soggy old cigar butt with great enthusiasm – or developing an advanced case of lock jaw, and will only hit one very obscure fly pattern, which you can bet you will not have…”
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“Although my Uncle Sid and Uncle Harry were brothers, I have never met two more different people.
When asked to describe the two of them, a rather insightful friend of the family commented that,” It would take a royal flush to beat that pair!”
True enough and, while there were certainly many differences, there were also a number of similarities, which together, served to define them as very special and unique characters…”
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“A Mighty River is Made Up of Many Single Drops - Afghan Proverb
There is something very special about being on a river.
They come in all shapes and sizes, and while we have managed to mess up quite a few of them, there are still an impressive number that, having been left to their own devices, continue to provide us with the opportunity to imagine ourselves as being “Les Voyageurs,” as we travel along them to this day…”
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