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North with Doc: Doc's Diet

Doc's doomed quest for self-restraint.

North with Doc: Doc's Diet

(Peter Kohlsaat illustration)

Knobby’s float plane left Sioux Lookout less than an hour before, a dropped us at the only cabin on the picturesque lake. While the massive area had undergone logging and mining activity decades, the six of us had the huge lake in the Northwest Ontario Bush all to ourselves.

The kid caught the first fish. It darted out from the reeds to smack his spoon. “About pulled the rod out of my hands,” he said, unhooking the scrappy 20-inch pike.

“Must be pretty weak hands to be challenged by that scrawner,” the policeman said.

“These hammers are strong enough to punch your lights out,” the kid said, making his hands into fists....

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