Earning My Stripes: Atlantic Canada Road Trip
Earning My Stripes: Atlantic Canada Road Trip Wading through the frigid Atlantic, waist deep in rust-hued Ocean surf stirred up from the iron-oxide sediment present in many of Prince Edward Island's beaches I couldn't feel more out of place from my regular fishing haunts in Northeast Ontario. What had led to such a drastic change in angling venues? The pursuit of the iconic striped bass! An East Coast Road trip led my family and I to the shores of Prince Edward Island in early June of this year. Beaches, hikes, restaurants, scenic lookouts, and tourist shops remained the priority of the trip, but a desire and curiosity to wade into the ocean and see what I could catch lingered. After we got settled in, I made several trips down to the ocean where I hammered in PVC tubing as impromptu rod holders and cast a couple of rods into the surf rigged with barbless in-line circle hooks and frozen shrimp as bait. After I checked the lines, it was clear that ...