Still working for Lake Trout after all of these years.

I caught my first lake trout through a hole in the ice almost 60 years ago, and I remember it as clearly now as the day it happened. I walked out from Willow Beach on the eastern shore of southern Ontario’s Lake Simcoe, a backpack full of ice fishing gear slung over my shoulder and a long handled axe in my hand. I had been ice fishing for walleyes and yellow perch for years using a hand auger – my school buddy’s parents had emigrated from Finland and I had one of the first Rapala hand driven marvels – but a six-inch auger wasn’t going to cut it for lake trout. So I started swinging away with the axe.