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first fish from lake Ontario

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2015.09.20

On my fourteenth visits to the marina at Ashbridges Bay park, I landed a damn nice fish. Not terribly large, but a beautiful pike that put up a decent struggle. With Ken on the net, we got it in in fairly short order. It'd gotten the "rattlin' rapala" crankbait fairly well into its mouth; hence the blood.

possibly my largest-ever pike

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong