Jet-lag makes for good fishing

Katie Doucet, the four-year-old granddaughter of Barbara and John Webster of the Millburn Road caught a three pound 19 inch trout on opening day.
Katie is visiting her grandparents from Pangirtung, Nunavut.






By Charlotte MacAulay

Her first catch on PEI was no small potatoes for Katie Doucet of Pangirtung, Nunavut.
Katie, the four-year-old granddaughter of John and Barbara Webster of the Millburn Road, went fishing with her Grammy on opening day of the PEI angling season and hooked a three pound 19 inch trout within minutes of putting her line in the water.
Mrs Webster said she baited Katie’s hook and before she could get her own on, Katie had a bite.
“She reeled it in a bit, but lost it, so I baited her hook again and she hooked it again right away,” Mrs Webster said.
“We had to haul it in and let the line go three times before we could get it in the net,” she said.
“It was really big and messy,” said Katie.
Even so she can’t wait to go out again.
Katie and her grammy had a bit of a late start on opening day because the day before Katie had travelled all day changing planes four times to get to PEI from her home in Nunavut.
This is the perfect time for a visit and they will be making lots of trips to Long’s Spring for more big trout said Mrs Webster.
“Only a few of us know where Long’s Spring is and I’m not giving out directions to anyone,” Mrs Webster said.
The trout are big there. The Websters usually only catch one or two a day. “We don’t want to take more than we can eat,” she said.