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Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM

Catchin’ Fish and Other Mishaps

Chapter 7 – Burke Lake

I was at a Super Bowl get together this year, and former student Andy Luthens was there.

He had a DVD that he lent me that contained transcribed 8mm footage of his dad and friends on several winter camping trips into Burke Lake fishing for lake trout. The trips took place from about 1980 until ‘85. The expeditions were great, the friendships obviously jovial and did they ever catch some pigs!

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