{"id":4738,"date":"2014-08-01T17:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2014-08-02T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T14:04:22","slug":"lake-of-the-woods-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=4738","title":{"rendered":"LAKE OF THE WOODS ADVENTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was fortunate to have spent \u00a0a week on a fishing adventure on the Lake of the Woods in Northern Ontario.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"House<\/a><\/p>\n

HOME SWEET HOME<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our home base, a house boat moored at our secret location.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"NORTHERN<\/a><\/p>\n

FISH STORY WITH A DIFFERENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

One morning, I spotted a large fish flopping on the surface of the lake and in obvious difficulty. I jumped into a canoe and fished him out. To my surprise a Northern Pike had literally bit off more than he could chew and had inhaled a large Sucker which was nearly fully engorged in the Northern’s gullet.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SURGICAL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0NORTH WOODS OPERATING ROOM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nephew Josh performs delicate surgical removal of Sucker stuck fast in the gills of the Northern Pike.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"JOSH<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0JOSH AND FRIEND<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post op care and recovery now begins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"JOSH<\/a><\/p>\n

SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

After 30 minutes of Dr. Josh’s constant care, the Northern Pike recovers and swims away. Congratulations Josh!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was fortunate to have spent \u00a0a week on a fishing adventure on the Lake of the Woods in Northern Ontario. HOME SWEET HOME Our home base, a house boat moored at our secret location.\u00a0 FISH STORY WITH A DIFFERENCE … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-touring","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4744,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}