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Continued from page 9 the few places where one can really be honour for me to take them out and be
alone and fish in isolation,” said Sliter. there for their first memory of a catch,”
night crawler and I had just dropped said Sliter. “It sometimes takes a bit of
my line when I had a heavy hit. I was Sliter enjoys catching walleye and convincing to get a young person to
fishing for walleye, but I knew this yellow perch to eat and northern pike, try it, but once you teach them how
was a much heavier fish. I had hooked musky and bass for catch and release to cast and hold the rod correctly it is
into a large musky,” said Sliter. “I fun. He spends his summers in the very rewarding to hear them scream
remember feeling confident that I had Long Sault/ Ingleside area fishing the when they watch their float dip under
strong line, hooks were well tied with St. Lawrence for walleye and yellow the water, and you encourage them to
good knots, and I knew there would perch. He spends his winters in New set the hook and hold on! Two years
be no reason to lose this fish. I fought Braunfels, Texas, along the Guadalupe ago, I taught my wife Avonne to fish
it for a while and really enjoyed every River, the top 100 trout fishing rivers for walleye and in her first effort she Photo Submitted
moment. The fish eventually got off in the United States. caught one that weighed 12 pounds.
when I brought it close to the boat,
He also enjoys an annual two-week I tried to tell her it was a once-in-a-
but I reminisced about that moment
fishing trip every September with an lifetime catch and that my buddy has
every time I drove by the area or was
old RCMP buddy that ends with a fish been trying to catch one like that for
experiencing any stress in my life.
fry for his neighbours and friends, twenty years, but she just thought it
That was the moment that keeps me
which they have been doing for over was pretty easy!”
fishing!”
twenty years.
The future for Sliter includes
Sliter says that he loves the peace
For those who have never tried establishing a Community Fish
and tranquility of the St. Lawrence I spent in my childhood along the
fishing before, Sliter says that he’s Hatchery along Hoople Creek with
River and all the animals and aquatic creek,” said Sliter. “I also came to
ready to help. his not-for-profit.
life that make it their home. replenish that love for Hoople Bay
“I take great pleasure in teaching “I will work hard to see this to and Creek in the last twenty years as
“There is nothing more beautiful young people how to fish and now I fruition. For myself, it is a means I taught my son how to catch giant
than a calm, quiet morning on our really enjoy watching a young child of giving back to the Hoople Creek channel catfish in the Bay and watch
section of this great river. It is one of
catch their first fish. It is a sort of community for all the great years him learn of the spawning walleye.”
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