A town icon, the Beaver House, was here when I arrived as a 10 year old kid. The giant carved walleyed pike (fish) was not. It was created in the eighties by an old buddy from Chicago named Jim Korf who , in time, became a sort of town icon himself. His legacy of backroad rambling (sometimes by horse and wagon) and quite nice oil painting (often of fairies in the wood) still resounds in the community. Had a stroke a couple years back and lives somewhere in Duluth.
At the Beaver House, you can purchase several different sizes of minnow for use as live bait to lure several species of fish. Also, leeches by the pound. Live leeches are really good for the big walleye on the bottom ( of a many an inland lake) as it is their natural fare.
I am trying terribly hard not to put every little detail in parentheses but there is so much to cover for the novitiate here. Who would know that The Beaver House has little or nothing to do with beavers? And the salient point of course...where ARE these fish?
On that note, I would invite you to visit us and stay at our little studio condo abvout 50 feet behind this glorified bait shop. And talk to Tom, the owner, about fish issues and/or maybe local politics. You could learn a lot.
Chris
1 comment:
you certainly forgot to add that not only does the giant walleye's tail wave magestically in the breeze, BUT there is a radio inside his mouth that periodically emits loud country western music.
god bless the america!
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