Brother Greg and I are well-versed in island living, having both spent nearly all our pre-adult summers at Gram's cottage on Murray Isle in the St Lawrence River's Thousand Islands. "Messing around with boats" was our foremost pastime.
When Greg fishes at the River he reliably follows the same River paths traced over fifty years ago by our uncle, James Borst. Uncle Jim, whose prodigious sport fish catches were immortalized on brown paper on the walls of the old "Birches"; Uncle Jim, WWII Navy radio op who gave me a crystal radio when I was eight years old and propelled me into the world of electronics and eventually computers.
I rode the Bonnie over to Alexandria Bay from Quebec to join Greg on this particular fishing trip and take these photos.
Life is good on the River!
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Bill and Greg standing on a dock in Alex Bay.
Kiss 'em and then throw them back, that's my brother's MO.
Pickerel. A little bigger than a minnow
Look at the sizer of that yellow perch!
Catch of the day? This man is experiencing extreme joy
Pirates ahoy
Gar! Another pickerel
What's for supper? Pickerel
A hammock, that's all I ask
Just back from the Lakes
A Guy and his Dog
A Guy and two dogs
Bill. RIP
River Rats
Boldt Castle. The boathouse or the laundry, I can't remember which
No minnow, that
Nice catch!
Sir, is that fish fully automatic?
Bill in the bow after a great afternoon of fishing!
Homeward Bound. Bill up front
Pat at her Murray Isle cottage. RIP
