The sky was
slightly overcast; the Lake flowed inexorably where it joined the Eagle River
before spilling into the Atlantic, touching Cartwright, at the finish. A series
of rapids whose names marked their relationship to the Lake: Muskrat, The Honey
Hole and Eagle, each confirmed a legacy of challenge understood and enlarged by
successive, but not always successful, salmon fishermen; latterly fisherwomen,
too.
Slowly, the
fishing guide headed the nearly flat bottomed Gander River Boat cautiously in a
north easterly direction, ever mindful that the slowly flowing landscape also comprised
an array of boulder reefs and shoals. They presented a continuing challenge, if not a threat to the output
of the engine’s 8 HP. The guide’s name was Ron.
