The Biggest Fishing Trip Ever!

The best attended trip in fishing trip history, 18 guys in 3 cabins. Guests included Big John Bocking, Eddy Marchand, Frank Franchellini and a gang of Phil's buddies from CN.

Dan Silcox introduced us to the term "pig movies". RKR started his tradition of making his midnight pizza that has continued to this day.

There were no trophy fish to talk about on this trip, but most of us caught at least a few walleyes and northern pike. No one will ever forget the flier for the nudist camp that Ron Zinn printed up and put in the cabins before everyone arrived. See it below.

In the photo are some of the gang from the 1983 trip: Front row: Frank Franchellini, Eddy Marchand, Warren Kidd, Big John Bocking, Al Macintyre. Middle row: Ron Zinn. Back row: Don Cusack, Henry Leutjen, John Valencik, Louis Eykens, Dan Silcox, Mike Dion, Tom Strumas, Phil Anderson, Tom Hansen.

The full crew on the 1983 trip were Phil Anderson, Big John Bocking, Bill Brown, Ken Cohen, Don Cusack, Mike Dion, Louis Eykens, Frank Franchellini, Tommy Hansen, Al Heaney, Warren Kidd, Henry Luetjen, Al Macintyre, Eddy Marchand, Dan Silcox, Tom Strumas, John Valencik, and Ron Zinn.

Young, rookie fishermen just gotta see...

The fake nudist camp flier: This thing screwed up a lot of guys. You'll see on the map that it's just a short boat ride from Club Fontbrune to a nudist camp on the same lake. Why wouldn't it be true? After all, there were a few of these fliers in every cabin at Fontbrune. The rookies never anticipated a swamp area and bogs on the way to the nudist camp. Needless to say, we had to rescue a few boats full of rookies trying to get to the nudist camp. They never did find the nudist camp.
Click on flier to see the full size...