The 12-pound line tightened against the weight of the aquatic weeds as we drifted across Opimisakau Bay, but something seemed different. Instead of watching the weedless Johnson silver minnow pull ...

If you’d told Heather Putnam last fall that she’d become the volunteer “dessert lady” at a five-star fishing lodge in Canada, she would have laughed out loud. “Preposterous,” she would have said. “You ...