Babes in Boyland: Fishing

FISH TALES FROM THE TOWPATH
Columns published in The Canal Times, 2007

Maria and I try to break into the very closed world of fishermen. What we lack in skill, we make up for in womanly grit.

Many of these tales formed the basis for the shorter Towpath tales above.

Irondequoit Creek Foray: the babes gear up (7.16.00)

Winter Steelhead -- Where Hell Freezes Over (11.24.00)

December: Understanding the Foul Hook (12.3.00)

November: Flashback to Fall and the Perfect Fishing Outfit (11.4.00)

January: All Guts, No Glory -- Another Quest for Steelhead (1.6.01)

June: Canadian Interlude (6.8.01)

July: Alone on the Dock o' the Bay (7.6.01)

July: Alone Again -- on the Erie Canal (7.7.01)

July: The Boy Shows Up (7.24.01)

July: Fishing with Hemingway -- Stalking Sunfish (7.29.01)

September: All the Boys Show Up (8.28.01)

Fast Forward: the Boys Become Men (9.1.03)

More fishing: Black Lake (9.2.00), Carping (6.9.02),, Caught a Trout (6.23.02), Fishing Alone (8.17.02), Just One of Those Things (8.18.02), Fishing with Patrick (7.2004), Living Our Dreams (7.2004)

originally posted: 2.27.03