McNeil: An Exhilarating Walleye hunt Chicago

McNeil: An Exhilarating Walleye hunt

June 1, 2012 12:00 AM

" Editor’s Note: This is Dan McNeil’s column for the Chicago Tribune, written from Eagle Lake, Ontario.

By Dan McNeil-

EAGLE LAKE, ONTARIO — I didn’t gain much fishing knowledge from my father, Roy McNeil, who used to wake up his chubby son before sunrise to drown minnows and insects.

My dad never owned a boat and he didn’t have the resources to travel far in search of trophy bass. I forever will be grateful, however, that the transplanted Arkansan put the fishing bug in my young brain.

And the old boy imparted some wisdom by which I always have lived: The only way to catch fish is to put a bait in the water. It was my responsibility to share that axiom with my sons, who received it and also regard it as the only undeniable truth in the great outdoors "

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