I get a lot of emails from people and their family and friends who are experiencing sight loss. Many are of the belief that all fishing involves watching bobbers and without this ability it’s not doable. The longer I fish however, the more I realize that fishing is a sport everyone undertakes with a visual […]
Exhibiting at the Toronto Sportsman Show (March 18-22, 2009) was a first for the Blind Fishing Boat. The Show itself has been operating for over 60 years and draws as many as 120,000 visitors over five days (48 hours). It was a real honour to be exhibiting at the Show since attending was always a […]
Lawrence, Could you describe how you know it is time to stop reeling in your bait, and time to send it back out again? I have difficulty when I am reeling the line in, most of the time I reel too long, and the lure hits the top eye of the rod. Thanks for any […]
Blind Fishing Boat exhibited and gave three presentations at the 4-day Ottawa Outdoor and Boat Show. Media coverage included: -4.5 minute segment on A Channel at 7:20 a.m.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx2Tq0WDSNc -4 minute segment on Rogers Live broadcast 4 times;-1.5 minute segment on CBC News at 6: p.m.;-5 minute interview on Live 88.5 morning show aired twice;-15 minute […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]