First of all I should make it very clear that I’m writing this from memory. And my memory is considerably shorter than it used to be.

Several weeks ago I received a message through Great Bear Lake Outdoors from a gentleman by the name of David Bouck.

From the fly tying bench of Josh "Jelly" Gelinas, a must Grayling fly for the purists coming up to Great Bear.

I’m pleased to present our newest contributor to Great Bear Lake Outdoors - David Bouck.

Given how everything ultimately played out, you could easily say that these were the “lost” papers about a partially “lost” week – but more on this later.

This is a story about a fishing rod – a fly rod to be precise -but not just any old fly rod either.

I’m not going to go into too much detail regarding how to tie these because ANY WILL WORK WITH THE METHOD WE USE TO FISH THEM!

The Eldorado mine, which eventually became known as Port Radium, was located on Great Bear Lake’s McTavish Arm, where it played a very significant role both in Canadian history, and that of the worlds ascension into what became known as the “nuclear”, or “atomic age.”