“I managed to recover about one hundred yards of line by the time I reached the end of the sand bar, and fortunately the big King decided to take a breather. I personally think it just wanted to make sure I had run out of room before continuing on its way, because no sooner had I stopped, and then it was off again.
Bill, who was leaning up against his airplane, smiled and said, “Having fun yet?”
Seeing the rather hopeless look on my face, he started climbing into the cockpit and yelled, “Get on the back of the pontoon.”
“What the hell for?” I yelled back, as I watched my line continue to disappear.
“Just get on,” he said. “I will start her up, taxi out into the river and we’ll chase it down…”
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“Our plans to spend several days camping were on hold, because our original choice of location was completely iced in
So what choices did we have? Make the best of it around the lodge? Attempt to set up camp on the North shore of the lake or - and this was a long shot – fly 100 kilometers south east of the lodge to Deerpass Bay, or Narre ella as it is known to the Sahtu Dene – the people of Great Bear Lake…”
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“In the early 1960s there was a buzz around town that one of the stores might be getting a Rapala. Not several dozen in each of the many styles, sizes and colours that are available today - but a single, minnow shaped Rapala.
Rumors about this amazing Finnish made lure had been swirling around for some time, but to the best of my knowledge, other than some pictures published in a 1962 Life magazine article, no one in town had actually seen one, let alone fished it...”
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“If you are really lucky, you might, once in your life, have a day of fishing that clearly transcends any you may have had, or are likely to experience.
Not just a day where you catch more and bigger fish than you ever have – but also a day when the weather was perfect, you were in good company, and you knew without a doubt, that something special was happening - perhaps never to be repeated again…”
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