Sunday, July 6, 2008

I do indeed like fish in fact I love it. I remember when I was a kid I could take it or leave it, but now it's one of my fave's. We just came back from Willow river, we took off yesterday on a whim.
While we were down there, we cooked up a twenty-five pound lake trout. mmmmm yummy. we cooked it over an open fire and it took a little over two hours. a few rums and the night was complete(except for the whole sleeping in the truck thing thanks Coleman, owe you one-Ill get ya back for that when yer a little older.)
Cooking that trout down there gave me a reason to poke around inside the messy mind. When we were kids we'd be out the door in the morning and lunch was usually a big galvanized tub full of clams, mussles and crabs that we'd dig up and catch and cook over a fire right down on the beach. Mike remembers that I'm sure. We'd tie a bunch of drift logs together and go waaay out in the Annapolis basin.
I believe Mike and I probably still hold the record for going out the furthest. I remember Barry Watson's mother just screaming at us way out on the water. I admit I was scared but Mike was fearless.
Jason, the north is here, and you are welcome to come up any time. I think that would be cool.
I know the previous post alluded to the fact that I was giving up on the excursion vacation for something more main stream...uh not yet. I'm currently planning next years trip- it's a two day trip up a river system with two portages to a lake where there's an old abandoned lodge, couple of days on the lake, trout and pickerel fishing, and then two days on the river back out. 6 or seven days total. can't get that from a travel agent.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I rememeber, there was a few times that the tide changed, and we had to beach the rafts between home and bear river, or end up in New Brunswick. God i miss thoughs days, with no stress , except when we came home late for supper as we had to walk home from where ever we landed. Wonder we never drowen out there with no life jackets or anything.
mike

Anonymous said...

you will eat fish now, WOW, how about an onion??

the Mailman Family said...

Jeez - times have changed! Wouldn't we flip out if our kids did stuff like that - and no life jackets! You'd probably be charged as an unfit parent these days if you let your kid do those things.

the Mailman Family said...

Yeah - how about onions????