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Schara journies to Minnesota

By Ron Schara

Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Ely, Minnesota. Hearty anglers live up here. A mere glow was in the eastern sky the other morning when a couple of elderly gents appeared at the Moose Lake access into the BWCA. Quickly, they packed their plastic sleds filled with fishing gear and clamped their feet into cross-country skis and headed out. "Where you going," I inquired? "To Basswood Lake to fish for northerns," one replied. "But that's about eight miles and you're no spring chicken." "Yeah, you're right. I'll be 79," the ...

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