Meet Steve Fobister
Steve and I met the first summer I worked as a fishing guide in Northwestern Ontario at the small family-run fishing camp on Delaney Lake owned and operated by Herb Helzer and his wife and three daughters. Two extended family clans of First Nations Ojibway were as crucial to the camp's success: the men as fishing and hunting guides and the women managing the domestic chores. These three families worked together for years and the small scale and intimate setting resulted in them becoming one big family and, for the summer I was there, they adopted me. We worked together, we ate together, we lived together, and on those few days the camp was empty of guests, we played together. I...
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