That video is much-needed tonic for a wilderness-starved paddler, both parts 1 & 2!  Thanks for sharing!

Jimbo   

BillConner wrote on Apr 12^th, 2020 at 10:51am:

That Esquif Echo looks interesting, Bill. It looks like from their website that they have a dealer rep in Wisconsin, probably the Madison area. I wonder if MuleLars is monitoring this thread and might be able to shed some light on whether there's a dealer in town or nearby? I'd love to test paddle one of these.

**UPDATE to my own post -- Rutabaga has them or can order one for you. Hmmmm. Decisions.

Wally13 wrote on Apr 13^th, 2020 at 4:08am:


I watched the first 2 parts.  Lots of good footage but do Canadiens call Walleye Pickerel?  I know they are similar looking fish but they look like walleye to me.

... and it gets REALLY confusing when you throw "sauger" into the discussion.

I remember the time when a guy from northern Ontario arrived at my buddy's outfitting shop in an old station wagon, kicking up a lot of dust in the parking lot.  He rushes into where a few of us were standing around, BS-ing and drinking beer.  The dude had just returned from a trip into the interior of Quetico and was returning a canoe.  He obviously had something to say, so we stopped our discussion to listen.  The big news?  He declares he had caught sauger on Alice Lake.  From that point forward, however, the conversation, which included both Americans and other Canadians, got very confusing....

"You mean you caught walleye?"

"No, t'was sauger, I swear!"

"It wasn't just a pickerel with spots on the fins, eh?"

"Or maybe a walleye with spots on it fins?", says yet another guy.

"That makes it a sauger, naturally!"

"Ain't no sauger on Alice, just pickerel!", asserts a local guy.

"That can't be right", says a friend of mine (who should have stayed out of it).  "I caught both walleye and pike there!"

"You mean pickerel, we're not talking about pike!"

"Well ain't a pickerel a small pike?"

"Not if it's a walleye."

"Or a sauger..."
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Anyway, that pointless conversation went round and round.  My head was spinning so much that I never did figure out what, exactly, that guy actually caught.  You get the drift... a Canadian version of Abbott & Costello's "Who's On First?"

Hey, a walleye, by another other name, still tastes as good... even if it's really a sauger or a pickerel.

Jimbo   

By the way, those big Waldo's were caught in the Bearpelt/Omeme Lk area on worms before they banned live bait.