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Cornwall Local Tony Prevost Says If You Want to

Relax, Fishing is the Way to Go

By Molly Kett Prevost.

ony Prevost, born and raised When it comes to his favourite

Tin Cornwall, has always had a memory, Prevost finds it tough to
narrow it down after so many years
passion for outdoor activities and
sports. One of his favourite outdoor of enjoying the sport. “I’ve had so
many, especially with the grandkids
activities, fishing, he’s been doing

for over 45 years. For Prevost, now,” says Prevost. “One of the

fishing is his time to unwind and most memorable fishing trips I’ve

done was in the Gulf of Mexico.
relax.
My brother-in-law, we both went out
“It’s my quiet time. It’s hard to and we got a world record barracuda
explain. Some people like to go out out there. It was a very exciting day.
and party and go to special events, A 60-inch, 80-pound barracuda was

I like to go fishing,” says Prevost. unheard of in that area. We did have
“It just gives you that calmness and quite a bit of them in the boat that
piece of mind out there.” day but that one, it’s one of those

Prevost’s earliest fishing memory situations where everyone gets a

dates back well before he was ten. “I turn in the boat when you’re fishing
can remember, especially around the down there and it was supposed to
springtime, it was an avid thing out be my turn, but I ended up going to
here in this area. Families would all the washroom and said, ‘you take
go down to the river banks and fish my turn Andy,’ and he got the luck

for perch,” says Prevost. “It was a on it and it’s sitting here on my wall.
good sign of spring. I can remember “Though one of his most memorable
there were different families; your catches happened in Mexico, he

cousins would end up meeting you still says his favourite place to fish

there and your aunts and uncles is the flats in the Lancaster area.

would go out for a fishing day. In The relaxation and the beauty of the
some cases, especially down around water is enough. “I’m on the water
the Williamstown area, down by the at 4 to 4:30 in the morning, trying
old bridges, I really remember that, to trap my minnows for my day of

or going to Long Sault and having fishing and just to sit down there
seen just hundreds of people lined and watch the sun come up, that’s an
up just fishing for the day.” unbelievable feeling,” says Prevost.

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He says those days spent fishing As an avid fisher, Prevost

were the days he really began to guarantees fishing will take a lot of the line in and let the line do the work my grandkids, because little kids

enjoy it. “That’s when you really frustrations out of your daily routine. for you and feel the excitement after have a hard time not being fi dgety
got hooked on it. You know, the “It’s like I tell my grandkids, you you get a bite, it’s all about being especially in a boat. So being on the
sign of spring was the sign of when have to come out and you have to relaxed,” says Prevost. “The more water you teach them how to relax
fishing season would start and you watch the water and just relax. If you relax, the more you’re going and the more relaxed they get the

knew summer was coming,” recalls you come out and relax and just put to enjoy it. It really works with more fun they have.”

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