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Christopher Piquette Talks Fishing

both afraid to touch it as we weren’t
By Molly Kett
entirely sure where the “stingers”
were,” says Piquette. “Derek had a
hen 29-year-old Christopher pair of pliers and he was trying to
WPiquette isn’t working as a get the hook out of the fish’s cheek
nurse on a medical unit in an Ontario
and as he was doing that, the fish
hospital, you can find him spending squirmed. Derek panicked and threw
his time in the outdoors, around
his pliers in the river and the fish on
camp fires, boating, and of course the land. At the end of it all, the fish
fishing!
was safely put back in the river, no
According to Piquette, fishing injuries to all.”
is both relaxing and peaceful. He Piquette’s favourite place to fish is
also loves the thrill of the catch,
the St. Lawrence River.
wondering what’s on the end of the
line while reeling it in. “I now live in southern Ontario
MURPHY’S SPORTS LAW “My earliest fishing memory and don’t do much, if any fishing

would probably be on Stanley Island at all that way. Coming home and
getting out on the water is comforting
in Summerstown, Ontario. A family
and a happy place from when I was
friend, Bud MacDonald, taught growing up. If you’ve never fished
me how to set up the rod and tie
before, I would suggest giving it a
the proper knots with the hook and try,” says Piquette. “It’s peaceful
sinker in order not to lose them,” being out on the water with nothing
says Piquette.
around you. It gives you the sense of
Aside from one of his earliest being in touch with nature and away
fishing memories, one of his from the hustle of being in the city,
favourite memories dates back to and the feeling of getting bites and
around 2010. knowing something is on your line
is such a thrill.”
My good friend Katie Munro and
I would take her dad’s little fishing Next, Piquette would like to try
boat just off the wharf in south some ice fishing on Lake Simcoe.
Lancaster and drift. We would catch “I hear there are some pretty large
massive Lancaster perch,” says
perch in that lake,” says Piquette. “I
Piquette. “We would then go back to basically like to catch perch. I love a
the boathouse and start the cleaning good perch roll. I have yet to catch
line. She would cut off the head and
a walleye. My good friend Derek
pull its guts out before I would skin Buiting tells me these stories of all
and fillet it.”
the walleye he’s caught and we have
Piquette has another fishing yet to catch one when we go out
memory, which includes fishing off together. I’m starting to wonder if
of the dock at Grey’s Creek Marina. he’s just telling me fish tales.”

“My good friend Derek Buiting Piquette has yet to participate in a
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caught a cat fish, we must have been fishing trip or tournament, but says
about 14 years old, and we were he may one day.
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