LAST EDITED ON May-07-17 AT 06:21PM (MST)[p]eel, your posts make the hair on my neck stand up, our lives have been so parallel, when you post, I feel like it's me taking.
I read every Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazine I could get my hands on, when I was a youngster. Much of my interest in the life style came as a result of reading the stories and discussions published in those two mags.
The black and white hunting and fishing ads, in the back, for the lake trout in Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake drove me to want to travel there someday, to try my hand at those big boys. I got the itch in the 1950s and finally got to scratch it on Great Slave Lake in 2000 and again in 2001.
One of my favorite articles every month was the "This Happened To Me" page. There were some pretty crazy stories told in those 8 or 9 little squares.
The cover of those mags. would, on occasion, have a huge tarpon leaping out of the ocean, attached to a bent over fly fisherman. I have yet to get that one off my mind, but any day now, I'm going to check a tarpon off my bucket list too.
If anyone has an "inside track" on a tarpon deal, I'd sure like to hear from you.
I read a book called "Hell, I Was There" by Keith Elmer, a old magazine writer. He and Jack O' Connor keep up a lively discussion on the .270 vs the big bores. It's a "hell" of a book, if you haven't read it, most of you would find it fascinating, if you enjoy stories of the west and the guys that built it.
DC