I felt privileged to be asked to photograph the premiere presentation of Old Salt and Wally 13 at Canoecopia 2014 on Sunday.  Their talk, entitled “Planning a Fishing-Based Wilderness Canoe Trip” was most informative, very well-planned, and presented in an eye-pleasing and interesting format. 

It began with a stunning slide show of fishermen showing off their beautiful catches.  I was in a great position for catching the silhouette of Old Salt himself with the photos in the background:

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After whetting our appetite with all of the successful catches, the lights came up and Jimbo gave the introduction for the two master fishermen who were going to present the information.

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Old Salt:

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And Wally 13:

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The talk itself contained some frivolous and humorous references:

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But also some treasured secrets and valuable information were shared:

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And to break up the flow of slides containing serious data (that can get tedious, after all) we had, regularly interspersed in the show, more photos of those beautiful fish!  Even a beautiful lady with a beautiful fish!  Wow!

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After giving us more information than it seemed possible in 50 minutes, the talk retired to the public area, where there were questions for the presenters.

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Magicpaddler demonstrated some of his equipment:

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and gave out some words of wisdom as well.

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Everyone enjoyed the presentation and had fun congratulating Old Salt and Wally 13 on a job well done!

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Great job, guys!!

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(If anyone wants to download copies of these photos, I have posted them in an album on my photobucket page.  My username is LyndaLu17 and the album is public.)

Excellent work, Lynda!

Wally will have to answer that one. When I was talking, I was getting the choke sign. 

I sure hope I wasn't nodding off ... though Ranger, you are right on .... it sure looks that way ... pretty sure I was in "DEEP THOUGHT".

Also, from a few of the pics that Spartan2 took ....I can see I better start working out to get ready for this years trip. Even Rich made a zinger about my big beer belly. When I had the sunrise and sunset pics of me with a couple of nice big fat walleyes ... Rich said "Look at the belly on those guys". He got a nice laugh from the crowd ... then I realized he was joking about MY BIG BELLY. Good one Rich.

Had a lot of fun preparing and doing the presentation with Old Salt. We both wanted to do a good job of representing fellow QJ'ers at our website.

I really did enjoy the camaraderie between all of those that attended Copia this year.

If anyone has ideas about a topic for next years Copia or would like to participate in any way ... please let me and/or Rich know.

My best,

Mike