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In the fall of 2003, Kathleen and I developed an itinerary for our canoe trip for the following summer down the Arctic Red River in the Northwest Territories. The Arctic Red River became part of the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in 1993, and appealed to us for several reasons. It was a fairly long trip, at nearly three weeks to paddle 509 km (316 miles). It was a far northern trip, beginning at about 64 degrees 40 minutes north, and ending at about 68 degrees 35 minutes north. We would...

A fresh day, almost too hot out, and it smelled fishy at the outlet of the last lake into the Delta River proper. I broke out my little spinning rig, tied on a yellow Rooster Tail (I had already swapped out that nasty treble hook for a single, clinched the barb too) and promptly caught 5 Grayling on my first 5 casts. It was too early in the day to keep them for dinner, thus the single clinched barb hook. It's not too far down the river before we hit the portage trail, which wanders...

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