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we were checking in to a Bed and Breakfast for a couple days. It is owned by a good friend Boomer Collins and his wife and Peggy who once lived and worked in the Ottawa Valley. The Freshwater Inn (http://www.freshwaterinn. com ) is a Bed and Breakfast like no other. It features outstanding accommodations with a traditional Newfoundland breakfast every morning. This is the place to stay and play or relax. We went for a short walk after checking in, to a spot where we fished for sea trout and any other saltwater creature that cared to bite. Unfortunately, we only caught a few small ones, but to be there looking at the bay in all its splendor with a few pints was good enough for me. We decided to take Boomer and Peg out for dinner that evening to Sheila’s, a local restaurant that served some Newfoundland traditional recipes. Boomer informed us that we better get a good night’s sleep because he had arranged for us to go boating up the coast with a long time fisherman buddy of his and we were to leave the dock at 9 a.m. The next morning we were in


the truck at 8 a.m. and on Route 320 to the town of Hare Bay on the beautiful shores of Bonavista Bay. There we met Carson Oram, who was going to take us out on the ocean in his twenty foot aluminum ocean going boat to do some fishing and sightseeing. For country music lovers, the name Oram might have struck a chord because country singer


Tara Oram is his niece. Later in the day I met Tara’s dad Albert and other members of the family and we all agreed that they were beautiful people. As we left the dock with Carson our Captain, Boomer, Brian, Bill, and Wib, we could really see what a true fishing village looked like on the shores of Newfoundland, with the multicolored houses, docks and boats, and backyards. As we left on our three hour tour, we all noticed a couple of very large icebergs up the bay off in the distance. We made our way out to them and all of us were awestruck at the magnitude of these floating ice islands that broke off the coast of Greenland some two or three years earlier. The blue streaks through these monsters are a sight to see when you are up close and, after a little research, I found out that as glaciers creep overland, meltwater


fills the crevasses and later freezes, creating clear, bubble-free ice. This shows up as bluish streaks in icebergs because of the light-scattering characteristics of pure ice. We spent a good hour around these incredible wonders of the world when Carson spotted his brother Bruce a mile or so away from us pulling lobster traps. Off we went and spent a bit of time watching Bruce pull and rebait a few lobster traps. He usually had a couple of the crustaceans in each one. The last words we heard from Bruce were: “When you get in to the dock come and see me.” And off we went to catch a few cod fish. We had great success jigging and using herring flies as bait. In fact, Brian Wilson had on three mackerel flies at a time and caught three small cod fish .Who said the cod stocks are down?


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