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Wishin’ I was Fishin’...

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with Ed Puddephatt

By Molly Kett years old.”
For Puddephatt, the love for fishing
d Puddephatt, a name recognized was rekindled by his stepfather,
Ewhen many think of Winchester’s Wally, reigniting a flame that had
beloved Paddletales bait & tackle dimmed since his father’s passing in
shop, reflects on a career spanning 1977.
thirty-two years. His journey, full of “Not that the love of the sport died
fond memories, fishing adventures, with him, but he was always the
and the camaraderie built within the one to suggest a fishing day,” said
angling community, would make Puddephatt. “Wally reintroduced me
anyone want to get involved in to fishing and reignited a fire that I
fishing. never realized I had. Within a few

“We started with a video store, weeks I had bought a boat, the store
added a number of other lines, a year later, and tournament fishing
including Paddletales,” said soon to follow.”
Puddephatt. “The fishing portion His favorite fishing memory

started in a ten by twelve room in unfolds during the Renegade classic
the back of our video store. One year on Muskrat Lake in Cobden. Facing
later we moved to a larger location, adversity, Puddephatt and his team
and while there we knocked out rallied on day two, securing the
walls twice to allow Paddletales to biggest bag of the tournament and
grow. The video store and other parts finishing 8th. It was a testament
of our business closed in 2013 when to resilience and the unpredictable
the building we occupied was sold. beauty of competitive angling. His
Paddletales, however, was allowed to earliest memory was catfishing
remain open. At that time, I thought in Hoards Creek, just outside of
we would work another three years Campbellford, where he grew up. Photo Submitted
or so. My predictions were off a tad, This was a springtime tradition until
as in 2021 we finally decided to take his dad passed away.
the plunge and retire at sixty-eight Continued on page 11

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