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








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        Fishing with Ben Houle




        By Molly Kett                         an  experience!  I caught  two mahi
                                              mahi,  one  of  which  I  was told  by
                                              our  guide  was  a  trophy  fish,”  says
           ifteen-year-old Ben Houle is in
        Fgrade ten at St. Joseph’s Catholic   Houle. “I also caught a tuna and a
                                              king mackerel. Each one was about
        Secondary School, plays hockey with
        the  Seaway  Valley  Rapids Midget    a  five  minute  fight  in  trying  to  reel
        AA hockey team, plays lacrosse and    them in. Honestly, there are no words
        also loves to play a variety of video   to describe the feeling of reeling in
        games. When Houle isn’t doing any     those fish.”
        of those things, you can find him out   Houle’s  favourite  place  to  fish,
        on  the  water,  fishing,  whenever  he   though, would be  in Florida  at  his
        can.                                  grandma and grandpa’s home.
          “I love being outside either on or    “Every  winter I look  forward  to
        by the water” says  Houle. “I love  going visit  them.  They  have a lake
        the challenge of fishing because you  right  by their  house. Every  day I
        never know what you will catch that  pack up my fishing gear, hop on my
        day or even if you will catch anything  hover board and make my way down
        at all. I also love coming back home  to the lake to see what I can catch,”
        with my catch and cleaning  it,  says Houle. “So far, I’ve caught bass,
        cooking, and then eating it.”         tilapia,  and  catfish.  There  was  one
          Houle  says  his  earliest  fishing  year that  my sister even caught  a
        memory is hitting the water with his  turtle. The whole time I’m fishing I
        grandfather.                          get to keep my eye on the alligators
          “If it weren’t for him I’m not      that live in the lake. It’s very relaxing
        sure if I would be fishing today. He   and exciting all at the same time.”
        introduced me to fishing when I was     To convince people to give fishing
        about  five  years  old,”  says  Houle.   a try, Houle would tell them “that
        “The first thing he did with me was   they have to at least try it once. It may
        on one rainy night.  He dressed me    seem  boring  at  first,  but  once  you
        in my rubber boots, rain  coat,  and   have  your  first  bite  and  experience
        headlamp  and showed me how to        the sudden excitement of reeling in a
        catch worms so we would have our
                                              fish you will be hooked just like I was
        bait to use for the next time we went   my first time.”
        out fishing. I will always remember
                                                According to Houle, it’s fun
        the  time  when I  was seven  years   catching  any  kind  of  fish,  but  pike,
        old and my grandpa and I were out     bass, and walleye  are his favourite
        fishing, and I caught my first walleye.
                                              catches.
        Boy, I was so excited trying to reel    Houle does have one goal when it
        that monster in. That was the exact
                                              comes  to  fishing,  though.    “I  know
        moment that I became hooked.”         that  it  will  probably  never happen,
          Houle  says  he  has  many  fishing
        memories, but if he had to pick one,   but after watching the TV show River
                                              Monsters, I would love to try fishing
        it would be from this past winter.
          “My  dad  and I  went  deep  sea    on the  Amazon  River  to  catch  an
                                              alligator gar,” says Houle.
        fishing  in  Cancun.  Now  that  was
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