Intrepid reporter Babs Young trekked across the frozen tundra that is Torch Lake to bring you this special report.
Fresh from my humiliation over the State Record Muskie, I am preparing another crow pie. However, this one I’m going to put in the freezer until Norton Bretz gets back from Hong Kong, because he knows more about all this than I do anyway, and I cling to the hope that I’m not altogether wrong, […]
A long time ago (Sounds Fishy to Me) I staked out a position on muskies. I told you there weren’t any of ’em in Torch Lake. I said you should count on catching whitefish, perch, bass, lake trout – no muskies. Well. When I am wrong I am spectacularly wrong. But at least I admit my […]
This was in today’s email from Babs: I went to a workshop today and found a way to save our fish. Turn fish-lures into jewelry. Pretty interesting approach. The only thing is . . . Babs, how do you know that the beaded lures won’t be even more appealing to the fish? Hee-ere little muskie, […]
My brother in law Dennis trained hard for his Mid-Life Cross Country Bicycle Tour. (He once pedaled 40 miles up a mountain in a sleet storm to meet my sister and me at a Sundance film.) He finally got around to reading Torch Lake Views and had some questions:
I sent this Fathers Day card to Dad and called him, too – but the post I intended in honor of all the Dads who take their daughters fishing with safety pins tied to wooden rulers (or with pikepoles and pistols if they’re after muskies) – that post got lost in the rush of events. OK, […]
March 17, 2014
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