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Wishin’ I was Fishin’...

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Fishing with Bob Flaro

By Molly Kett was fishing to check on me, just “Fishing does wonders for the catches, including a ten-pound
as I caught a big fish,” says Flaro. soul. As I said earlier, it’s very pickerel and recently a seven-
ifty-six-year-old Bob Flaro was “He just watched me fighting relaxing and calming and beautiful pound pickerel, and a seven-pound
Fborn and raised in Cornwall the fish for at least twenty on the river,” says Flaro. “But the bass.
and has been deeply involved in minutes. It was ten pounds and excitement of catching fish, well
local athletics from a young age. I was having a hard time getting that’s just addictive. It’s better “I must say, my favourite fish
He grew up playing hockey and it into the net because it was so than hitting a three-hundred-yard to catch is pickerel,” says Flaro.
golf, attending the State University big. But finally, I got it in the drive in golf to me.” “The reason is: I’m not a game
of New York at Canton, then boat and laid it across the back fisher and I like to eat what I catch,
transferred to Concordia, playing of the boat. My dad had a huge Since he loves fishing so much, and nothing is better than fresh
hockey at both schools. Flaro smile on his face, and I was so Flaro, of course, has a few notable pickerel!”
also excelled at golf; turning pro excited he was there to witness
and moving to Fort Lauderdale to it.”
play golf professionally full-time.
His favourite fishing memory
Flaro has been a golf professional
also involved spending quality
for thirty-one years and took over
time with his dad.
as head pro at the Cornwall course
in 1994. “My favourite fishing memory
was when I was about ten,”
Not only does Flaro have a
says Flaro. “My father showed
passion for hockey and golf, but
me how to fish for pickerel,
he also loves to spend his time
and then gave me a boat with
fishing.
a 9.9 Johnson so I could go
“What I love about fishing is fishing anytime I wanted. I still
how peaceful it can be on the remember the boat. It was bright
river,” says Flaro. “There is orange. I would fish every day.”
just a calming influence of the
river. Also, there is always that His favourite place to fish is
anticipation of catching the big on the St. Lawrence River, “right
one.” in front of what used to be my
father’s home and is now is my
Flaro remembers fishing when cottage on Hamilton Island; as
he was a young boy and has a few my father passed last summer,”
memories from those earlier days. says Flaro. “So having the

“My earliest fishing memory, cottage now allows me to hold
that was cool, was when I was on to all those memories. I feel
about twelve, maybe thirteen. I his presence when I’m there.”
was fishing for pickerel near our Aside from the wonderful
family cottage on Hamilton Island. memories fishing has brought
It was getting late, almost 9 p.m., Flaro, there are other reasons he
and my father came out to where I loves the sport, too. Photo Submitted
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