Cubfan64
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- Feb 13, 2006
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- Fisher CZ21, Teknetics T2 & Minelab Sovereign GT
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probably my most interesting find was while I was on a fly in fishing trip in Ontario in 1991. My friend and I had maps of the area we were in and came across a small rapids which we thought looked like would lead to a river we wanted to see.
Feeling adventurous, we tied the boat to some trees and trudged through incredibly mosquito infested thick woods for about 1/4 mile until we came to what we came to call "God's Country." I'll try to scan some pictures tomorrow and post them - but suffice to say we broke out of the woods right into the middle of a river bed. The water was very low that spring and the "river" was more like a stream with some deep and wide spots, but nothing you could take a boat down.
We had an absolute blast fishing there - we caught a few 3-5 lb. Walleye and lots of small Northern. I'm not exaggerating when I say we caught a fish on at least 8 of every 10 casts. The water was cool, we found moose and bear tracks along the shoreline, the rapids made for a great background noise and there was a neat high ridge of rocks on the other side.
As I was wandering around in the rocks after a shore lunch at the end of the rapids, I came across a metal tag of some kind. Had no idea what it was, but put it in my pocket and took it home with me. One of the guys I work with recognized it as a waterfowl tag/band and said I could send it in to the US Fish & Wildlife Service since they track those bands and they would send me information on what type of bird was tagged as well as when and where.
Sure enough, a few weeks later I got a certificate in the mail telling me that my tag had been placed on a male Canada Goose in Arkansas in 1953.
I still have that certificate and I think it's pretty cool that I came across a band from a bird that had been tagged 38 years before I found it - just one of those interesting finds that's fun to talk about. I'll try to post some pictures of "God's Country" in the next couple days.
Feeling adventurous, we tied the boat to some trees and trudged through incredibly mosquito infested thick woods for about 1/4 mile until we came to what we came to call "God's Country." I'll try to scan some pictures tomorrow and post them - but suffice to say we broke out of the woods right into the middle of a river bed. The water was very low that spring and the "river" was more like a stream with some deep and wide spots, but nothing you could take a boat down.
We had an absolute blast fishing there - we caught a few 3-5 lb. Walleye and lots of small Northern. I'm not exaggerating when I say we caught a fish on at least 8 of every 10 casts. The water was cool, we found moose and bear tracks along the shoreline, the rapids made for a great background noise and there was a neat high ridge of rocks on the other side.
As I was wandering around in the rocks after a shore lunch at the end of the rapids, I came across a metal tag of some kind. Had no idea what it was, but put it in my pocket and took it home with me. One of the guys I work with recognized it as a waterfowl tag/band and said I could send it in to the US Fish & Wildlife Service since they track those bands and they would send me information on what type of bird was tagged as well as when and where.
Sure enough, a few weeks later I got a certificate in the mail telling me that my tag had been placed on a male Canada Goose in Arkansas in 1953.
I still have that certificate and I think it's pretty cool that I came across a band from a bird that had been tagged 38 years before I found it - just one of those interesting finds that's fun to talk about. I'll try to post some pictures of "God's Country" in the next couple days.
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