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Leo Roy: Memoirs Of A Local Fisherman

“Being a care taker on Stanley
By Erynn Henry Island for 11 years and than
prior to that I owned a cottage
or Leo Roy, a local fisherman, on Hamilton Island, I found

Ffi shing is a way to relax and my best fishing for me was

unwind and also to catch a good right there across from Stanley
dinner. “I fish just for the love of Island,” says Roy, sharing one

it. I’m really relaxed whenever of his most treasured spots to

I’m out fishing and I like the catch perch.
fresh air and whenever they are Roy, like many an avid
biting, it gives you a real thrill,” fisherman has invested in his

says Roy.
own special equipment for
Roy has been fishing for when he goes out fishing, such

roughly 55 years, and is the as a boat with a live well, which
youngest of six in the family and he says comes in handy to keep

the only one to take up fishing. the perch alive for the duration
He grew up in Summerstown, of the trip.
Ontario where his family owned “It’s a hobby; I don’t like

the Roy’s General store. He Good Friends remember Roger Plamondon during fishing weekend.

picked up how to fish through a Preparing the feast on Stanley Island throwing my fish away. I like

to keep at least ten pounds in
lot of neighbors who were avid Left to Right, Jean Guy Lacroix, Louis Lacroix, Louis Lefebvre, Norman

fishermen. Laliberte, Andre Fortin, Claude Plamondon, Frank Roy and Leo Roy. my freezer and I freeze them in
Missing from picture Don and Richard Plamondon Photo supplied. water so I can keep them for at

With his many years of fishing, least six months and than when

come many fond memories. Island. days just fishing, on that one I really feel like having a perch
One of his fondest memories “We all arrived on the Friday, day, June 1, I believe it was a feed and my family come for a

happened just three years ago. fished a bit Friday and Saturday, full moon out and we had five visit, they get a treat out of it,

“I remember it was on June 1, but our best fi shing day was on different boats and each boat we have a good perch feed,” he
2011. We were about ten in the the Sunday and when we got had come in with a 5 gallon pale says.

group and we had just lost a very back to the cottage, after the fi sh of fish which were all perch The father of three grown
close friend, Roger Plamondon were all cleaned, everybody went and they were all big slabs to. boys, Roy’s favourite past
who had passed away on the 25 home with about fi ve pounds of We feel Roger’s spirit was with time to spend with them is of
of May and he was suppose to be perch fi llets. We caught them us that day. I’ve never seen so course, fishing. Whether it is

coming with us on this fishing all on worms, which we were many fish in all my life.” just a regular visit or a special

trip. At the funeral his widow stunned! We thought they were There are many places around occasion such as Father’s day,
logos
mentioned that she wanted us to going to bite on minnows, but this area that one might go if it’s his choice of activity,
go anyway. I was a caretaker for they didn’t. So the group all fi shing, but only the fi nest you can be sure that it will be
This DVD includes high resolution (300 dpi) versions of the new
a cottage and it was on Stanley stayed at the cottage for three fi shermen know the best spots. fishing.

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