Lynn and Eric and Robbie

In 2000 I was able to convince Lynn to come fishing with me at my usual haunt, Miles Bay Camp on Lake of The Woods in Ontario Canada. That turned out to be one of the more memorable of my fishing trips. Then, surprise of surprises, my nephew Eric, my sisters oldest son, decided to join us. Lynn and Eric’s birthdays are less than a week apart and they have been good buddies from an early age. They love to tease each other and both love to fish so I knew this trip was going to be fun.

Our good friends and almost family, Jim and Denise and their son Robbie also were in camp and so we all had meals together and shared cooking and cleaning assignments. Since Jim & Denise have embraced Max and my family as part of their own extended family, I was elated that we could all be together. We usually fished together and kept an eye out for each other out on the water and the fact that everyone got along well added to the pleasure and relaxation of the week.

Fishing was really good and everyone did very well and so dinner was often the fish we had caught that day. But probably the most memorable part of the trip was our trip over to Obabikon Lake. There were three boats of us. Jim and Denise were in the lead, Lynn and I were second, and Eric and Robbie were bringing up the rear. Suddenly, Jim & Denise slowed to a halt and were looking back, I stopped also and Lynn said look at Eric & Robbie. Eric had their boat in a sharp turn and they were circling slowly. Robbie was standing with a big net poised to net something in the water, and net it he did. It was a good sized snapping turtle swimming across the lake. Lynn and I got our boat about 15 feet from theirs and then I smelled it! Yowee, did it stink! We got some photos of it and they let it go. We have always referred to that week as Robbie’s great turtle round up.

Robbie and the turtle.