As outdoors activities go, this would be his last kick at the can for the foreseeable future. Chemotherapy was complete, but a stem cell transplant – an equally arduous step on his journey to recovery – awaited.
Once again, a week of mostly windy conditions made it difficult to get on the big water of Lake of the Woods and Upper Red. Overall, all anglers are still having general success.
It wasn’t their first choice for a shore-fishing spot, but someone already was set up near the confluence of the Red and Red Lake rivers where they’d braved the heat to fish the previous evening.
The weather throughout her journey has been a struggle, Madison Williams says, including seven tornado watches – one of which escalated into a warning – “tons” of thunderstorms, a week of excessive heat and high winds.
Wondering if there was anything Key West could do to help people at the Angle, Paul Menta came up with the idea of a fundraiser to benefit kids in both communities.
Like everything else in the past two years, our trip to Headwaters Lake didn’t go as scheduled. There were times, during the darkest days of the pandemic, when I wondered if the trip would ever happen.