My 2008 soft water Blind Fishing Adventure season started the year with a 10-day fishing marathon in the company of Miles Hilton-Barber, A U.K. blind adventurer. http://www.mileshilton-barber.com Miles first contacted me through my website last fall with the request that we hook up for some fishing in Canada. Over the winter months In organized three back-to-back […]
What better way for Miles Hilton-Barber and I to start our fishing adventure than for us to participate in a fishing tournament for the blind. Doug Catton, a seasoned fisher on the Ottawa River, was our guide for the 1-day Blind Anglers International Tournament (BAIT). My hope was that we would be fishing from my […]
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 that is now known as St. Lawrence Lake. The Lake was formed with the construction of several dams and locks in the 1960’s to allow ships to pass between the Atlantic […]
The following are short overviews and MP3 recordings of some of the talking and audible devices I’m experimenting with on the Blind Fishing Boat. With the exception of the automobile reverse sensor, the descriptions and sounds found in this report come from assistive devices manufactured to assist people with limited or no sight. For details […]
For the second year in a row Blind Fishing Boat exhibited at the Ottawa Valley Sportsman Show as an invited guest of the show’s organizer, Dave Arbor. This is the forth year for this show and attendance continues to grow with numbers reaching 10,000. Audience: Attendies to the Show are made up of serious fishers […]
Blind Adventurer, Miles Hilton-Barber, will Travel to Canada to hook-up with Lawrence Euteneier, Captain of the world’s first fishing boat for the blind, for some Canadian blind fishing action. Miles, recently in the news for piloting an ultra-light plane from London England to Sydney Australia, HYHYPERLINK http://www.MilesHilton-barber.com will arrive in Canada May 22 to under-take a 9-day […]
For joining braid to mono backing or floral leaders. Always a good idea to add 20 yards of mono backing to your reel before spooling the braid to avoid the braid slipping on the spool. Double over your mono about 12”. Pass about 12” of braid through the loop made in the mono. Place your […]
The lack of roads and sidewalks in Canada’s northern communities is similar to sailing on open water for someone without sight. To the blind, sidewalks are like rivers. It’s only when they open up at their mouths to become the lakes, otherwise known as intersections or parking lots, that blind people find themselves having to […]
Sunday morning had Miles Hilton-Barber and I heading up to Bush Country Camp on Lake Sasseginega about 2 hours north of Temiscaming
Fishing rods are an expensive investment and one which you want to make sure will last. Like many of you, I too have a number of rods, and while each has a use even in some cases if its only to bring back memories, storing them all so they are safe and accessible has always […]