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<blockquote data-quote="Vollmer" data-source="post: 181148" data-attributes="member: 8014"><p>[h=1]<span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Envious Angler Files Federal Request for Secret Fishing-Spot Location</span></span></span>[/h]<span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">BY </span><span style="color: #000000">KRIS MILLGATE</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">An envious angler has filed a Freedom of Information claim in Canada—all because pro fisherman Mike Borger wouldn’t disclose his favorite honey hole.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">“I haven’t told anybody about this lake,” Borger told </span><span style="color: #000000">CBC-Radio Canada.</span><span style="color: #000000"> “I wouldn’t even tell my best friend about this lake.”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">The trouble started this spring, when Borger and his son fished the secret spot—which is somewhere in Ontario’s Algonquin Park—and landed some trophy 5- to 6-pound brook trout. Following the trip, Borger posted a 40-minute video of the outing </span><span style="color: #000000">to You Tube</span><span style="color: #000000">, showing off some of the monster trout the pair caught. But Borger purposefully withheld the specific location of the spot.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">According to </span><span style="color: #000000">Newser</span><span style="color: #000000">, Algonquin Park boasts more than 2,400 lakes, so Borger had good reason to think that his secret spot was safe. In late July, however, he received a five-page notice from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry after an unknown person filed a Freedom of Information claim requesting a record of Borger’s camping permit.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">“I’m going to give him credit because it was an incredibly smart, underhanded, and a little bit devious,” Borger told reporters. “If somebody has a copy of my interior camping permit, which shows which lakes I camped on each night, they can clearly and easily figure out which lake I caught these trophy fish in.”</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Borger was no doubt upset, telling the </span><span style="color: #000000">CBC</span><span style="color: #000000"> that he feels “violated, angry, [and] stunned.”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">For now, however, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry hasn’t released Borger’s camping permit, so the jealous angler will have to keep casting blind.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vollmer, post: 181148, member: 8014"] [h=1][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Envious Angler Files Federal Request for Secret Fishing-Spot Location[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/h][SIZE=2][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]BY [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]KRIS MILLGATE[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=2][FONT=arial]An envious angler has filed a Freedom of Information claim in Canada—all because pro fisherman Mike Borger wouldn’t disclose his favorite honey hole. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]“I haven’t told anybody about this lake,” Borger told [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]CBC-Radio Canada.[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] “I wouldn’t even tell my best friend about this lake.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]The trouble started this spring, when Borger and his son fished the secret spot—which is somewhere in Ontario’s Algonquin Park—and landed some trophy 5- to 6-pound brook trout. Following the trip, Borger posted a 40-minute video of the outing [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]to You Tube[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000], showing off some of the monster trout the pair caught. But Borger purposefully withheld the specific location of the spot. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]According to [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Newser[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000], Algonquin Park boasts more than 2,400 lakes, so Borger had good reason to think that his secret spot was safe. In late July, however, he received a five-page notice from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry after an unknown person filed a Freedom of Information claim requesting a record of Borger’s camping permit.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=arial] “I’m going to give him credit because it was an incredibly smart, underhanded, and a little bit devious,” Borger told reporters. “If somebody has a copy of my interior camping permit, which shows which lakes I camped on each night, they can clearly and easily figure out which lake I caught these trophy fish in.”[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=2][FONT=arial][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]Borger was no doubt upset, telling the [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]CBC[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] that he feels “violated, angry, [and] stunned.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=2][FONT=arial]For now, however, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry hasn’t released Borger’s camping permit, so the jealous angler will have to keep casting blind. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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