E very summer for the past 11 years I’ve traveled north to KO Lodge in eastern Ontario, Canada. In year’s past, I’ve pursued the wary and mighty muskellunge with a crazed obsession, caught my trophy northern pike and eaten enough freshly caught walleye to know they are the best eating freshwater fish in the world. Twelve casts with a Super Zara Spook topwater one morning produced seven strikes and six fish that would range from 21 1/42 to 31 1/42 pounds. I could write 10 columns about this trip telling you of secret places where only a canoe or kayak allows access to smallmouth-laden water, of the cries of wild wolves at night, of seeing the Milky Way brighter than I’ve ever seen it, of good food and beer after a day of being outdoors, of sitting around a campfire late into the night. read more