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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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