Entries by Lawrence

Spincast Reels and Fishers without Sight

By Captain Lawrence Euteneier I’ve been a fisher for as long as I can remember, and my earliest recollections are of fishing with spincast reels.  At age eight I was registered “blind” and now almost 40 years later I’m still using spincast reels for certain applications.  The reason I find spincast reels to be particularly […]

26th Annual North Carolina Visually Impaired Persons Fishing Tournament

In mid October I attended the 26th Visually Impaired Persons Fishing Tournament based out of Manteo, North Carolina as the key-note speaker and a workshop facilitator.  528 fishers with visual disabilities participated in the event, with the North Carolina State tournament taking place on Tuesday, Oct. 14 and the first ever National Tournament the next […]

Voice Print Contact Interview

On September 14 2008 Voice Print’s weekly interview program, “Contact”, aired an interview entitled, “Blind Boating with Lawrence Euteneier“.  The interview is the first half of a two-part segment on sports for people with visual disabilities.  The following link will take you to the Voice Print page and a link to the interview. www.voiceprintcanada.com

Blind Fishing Boat Trials of HumanWare’s New Breeze Talking GPS

In late July 2008 my wife, Kids and I set off for Desert Lake, located just north of Kingston Ontario, for a week of camping and sea trials of the Blind Fishing Porta-Boat. I was more than just a bit excited about this set of trials as it was to involve a pre-release version of […]

Flying Gliders and Our Sensory Feedback

I recently had the opportunity to go up in a two-person training glider as part of an out-reach program run by the Gatineau Gliding Club.  While many who have tried the sport speak about the tremendous views, my purpose in participating as a blind person, was to learn more about how our body’s various senses […]

Desert Lake Blind Fishing Porta-Bote Sea Trials

Trials of the Blind Fishing Porta-Bote over the 2008 season thus far have expanded on the results and recommendations reported on in 2007.  A number of modifications are now in use and still more are in the process of being implemented.  Photo of Lawrence setting up the Blind Fishing Porta-Bote Top Water Sonar:  I’m now […]

Inuvik Pike by the Midnight sun

In advance of Maestro and I heading to Inuvik NWT for a conference on boom and bust northern community economies, I gave a call to a mutual friend

Carp on the Mighty St. Lawrence

The 3rd and final leg of my fishing adventure with Mile’s Hilton-Barber involved fishing for Carp on a section of the St. Lawrence River