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Wishin’ I was Fishin’... TIME TO THINK ABOUT

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Claude (Pete) Poirier —

An Admirer of Our Local Fishery

By Todd Anderson like fishing because it’s relaxing
and I enjoy spending time with my
n the last issue of Sports Energy grandson and great-grandsons. It is
Iwe featured up-and-coming a great place to fish with family and
fisherman Hayden Ferguson in this friends. We have a lot of variety
column. This month we talked to here.”
one of his fishing mentors, his great-
Poirier notes that his favourite
grandfather Claude (Pete) Poirier.
form of angling is trolling.
Poirier, 74, has been fishing
for over 60 years. A resident of “I find it very relaxing and it gives
you time to look around and enjoy
Cornwall, he admires the local
fishery. your environment,” he says.
Along with fishing, Poirier also
“I do most of my fishing in the
St. Lawrence River. We have so collects old lures and participates in
bowling and hunting.
many great areas to fish here. I
Like most veteran fishermen, he
likes telling stories of “the big one
that got away”.
“I also love telling stories of how
our grandson Deven and great-
grandson Hayden get excited when
they catch a fish. It is pure joy
(watching youngster Hayden fish).
I love watching and listening to
him. It is great how fast he learns.”

Poirier says the biggest fish he has
caught locally was a 35-pound carp. Claude (Pete) Poirier poses with a Bass during one of his fishing trips.
Poirier is an admirer of the vast variety of fish you can catch locally.
He hooked the fish in the dorsal fin
Photo Submitted
and the capture came only after he
needed to drive the boat to shore.
and Angelo Violi. The duo actually hats,” says Poirier. “They were
During a trip to Mexico, Poirier
stopped at the family cottage once great guys and it was an amazing
landed a 165-pound marlin. He’s
when they were in Cornwall for experience.”
also caught salmon during trips to a tournament. Deven, Hayden’s
Lake Ontario. Poirier served from 1961-1964
father, and his friend Gary Moody
Poirier says he and family were able to go out fishing with with the Navy sailing the east coast
Claude (Pete) Poirier loves fishing members often watch fishing shows them in their boat. through the Panama Canal, Jamaica,
with his great-grandsons Lain,
left, and Hayden Ferguson. on television, including Bob Izumi, “They took some pictures with Trinidad, and Europe. His rank was
Photo Submitted Fish‘n Canada with Pete Bowman them and we all received signed Able Seaman.

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