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Article: Quest For The Mother Lode: COULD LABRADOR'S REMOTE KANAIRIKTOK RIVER BE A LOST WORLD OF MONSTER BROOK TROUT? A TRUE STORY OF GRUELING CANOE PORTAGES, HARROWING LAKE CROSSINGS, FESTERING WOUNDS--AND ULTIMATE DISCOVERY.(F&S Adventure)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Byline: T. Edward Nickens
This doesn't feel like fishing. For the hundredth time in the last two hours I lunge against a makeshift harness, jury-rigged from climbing rope and knotted around my chest. The canoe screeches through black spruce trees and lichen-covered boulders. I take three steps on firm ground and then stumble into a gaping pit camouflaged with bearberry and alpine azalea. Once again I'm facedown in the Labrador taiga, run over by my own boat.
"Aren't we supposed to be looking for trout?" wheezes my buddy Scott Wood. He's a few steps ahead, tied into a similar noose and similarly wrung out from portaging our canoe through the boreal ...