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Tintes-Advocate, August 20, 1997
Page' S
Fish Tales - new -Grand
Bend fishing charter
Three Exeter anglers have turned a love of
fishing into a part-time business
By Heather Mir
f -A Reporter
(,RAND BEND - Three men, a
host and a love'of fishing have re=
Gently combined to form a new
fishing charter husincss namciI_Fich
Tole c that operates out" of the
Grand Bend hart or. . -
Entrepreneurs Tont .Patterson.
Jiro - Patterson and
Tim- Wilcox have •
hien friends since
childhood, growing
up in -.Exeter where •
fishing was a big -
part. of each Soni:
mer.
• • "We spent half our •
summer at Morrison Dam." recalls
Toto: • . adding anywhere -1 waiter
flOvyed was a Potential fishing spot.
" Jf it fooked-like it had fish in -it.
wehad.a line in it^"
That enthusiasm for the pastime
has not diminished for the partners
who . began offering Lake Huron
fishing charters in• May: Thein 25
• ft, cabin cruiser is equipped with
tour electric: downriggers. a .fish
finder combined • with a (,PS
hal Positioning Satellitol` system. a
temper cure -probe and a. devise
. that imparts a slight charge into the
water cuntpen'.tting" for the charge
,:rented by the hoar. All this equjp-
"We sp
our su
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Merit. betters the odds for paying
'customers to land a fish hut nobody
can guarantee success. .
The three sten still hold full. -ante
jobs and offer day -long charters on•
weekends for six hours, as well as
shorter three-hour evening trips. -
Full-day charters cosi a, mjnintum
of $24() and three-hour excursions
are run at a minir}tum of $120.
Lake Huron is. a
source 'of many
tyres of fish in:
eluding at least four
species of • salmon, -
lake trout, brown
trout and occa-,'
sionally pickerel.
Even after years of
fishing in th'e lake and rivers of •Hu-
_rob ,County: landing a hig• one-.
starts the adrenalin. pumping and all
three men agree the,part-time �h•usi-
ncss is hardly work.
Afier ;only a few short months.
the Fi.rh . Tales charter boat has
logged 485 miles once- it was put
in the water. and has taken WI at
least I: 'roup. The clients con-
Slsl tsl bilslness 41•tlups.-•visitor's and
One t y... t was
to
families. Int- re��r w
made by a son who wanted to take
his 72 -year-old mother taut as a
birthday gift. Visitors from C'ech•
uslovakia hooked a charter. hut, if
ent half
mmer at
Morrison
Dam."
ter the wife became sea -sick and
had to he taken hack to the dock,
.• the tour ended up with •a long swim
in -the lake.
Tom and Tim said they have to
share the • credit far getting Fish
Tales off 'the ground'Iand• out of•
rhe harp► -with •family and friends
who offered moral support as well
as labor. The idea.of making some-
' thing they lov.ed into a business be-
came a reality' 'when Tim's•parents
offered the use -of their boat after .
trading a , floating cottage 'for an
R:V. -After ref'urhishing- the, cabin
crtfiser. during the winter months
and spending all their savings on •
equipment. the charter was ready to
take clients: And ,when 'an article
• ran in the London Free Press Busi'
ness Monday; the phone started
-ringing. But perhaps_ the hest ad-
-vertisement' of 41 is the boat itself
and its place in. the Grand Bend
.harbor where it -ifi 'occasionally
dwarfed by 51 million -plus yachts.
' • The three teen also. thank the Vil-
lage of Grand. Bend for the re
'ception they got and especially the
harbor master for "taking good care
of us."
Bookings J'or .the , fall are still
available and o:an . be .feserved shy'
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Heather Redick
Decorative artist returns
from teaching in Japan
ZURICH' - A change in careers
eight years,,ago has taken. dec-
orative- - artist .Heather .Redick'
around- the world. She recently re-
turned .from -Japan where "sponsors
brought 'her. and . two .other in-
structors to teach the art of: dec-.
orativc painting, Sometimes-. re-
(erred to as tole painting. -
Redick first learned the. craft in
1989- when she took a class in the •
Ottawa area. •
I've been painting ever since."
•.1y7iL l t. sc ti _
r:r:olor.. acrylic and oil. "It came
easy to me."
Later the same year she . began
leaching and .designing. and now .
• operates a retail -wholesale • hum -
ness named The Tole Booth. 'ut of
Zurich. Vluch of Redick'._hu.i-
ne.s, that include. the .ale 1l, pat-
terns. paints and manufactured
wood pieces is done by mail order
and most recently through the In-.
ternet.
Decorative- painting is something
that .Redick says anyone can do be:
cause the patternpackets 'provide
complete m.trucuun on how to ap-
ply' the paint. what ctilors'to use.
even how to finish and trim the.
pieces.
"You don't have to be able •to
draw.". she says. adding. as a de-
signer the process is very different.
"I 'demo everything. that has to be
done on the ..piece."
Although the tern tole painting is
sometimes used to .describe dec
orative art. true tole painting is
done on metal and has a traditional
history with a region. In North
America, decorative painting is
usually done on wooden pieces in-
cluding lamps.. boxes. eggs and
plates as•well as furniture and' even
large milk cans. A popular new
project for Redkk has been a fire-
place,screen pattern: She used his-
Flsh; Tales charter captains. Tom Patterson, Jim Patterson and Tim Wilcox have been friends
since childhood. The Exeter natives operate their fishing charter out of Grand'Bend Harbor. '
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titrical buildings in the Village of
'
Zurich ,to ,create a winter scene on
the.screen panels: -
In .tddinon to operating a flour-
• ishing business-. and travelling
. throughout' Canada; .the United
States and now the Far East. Re-
dick has also, published two dec- •
• orative .painting .books. The first . .
book gives detailed instruction for
creating .Russian Floral. pieces
(Zhostovol and the second uses the'
Canadian theme of Anne of Green .
abtes as a sun)ect fol: aecora ive -
painting projects. Redick was
pleased and surprised when: a wom-
an in Osaka. Japan asked her to au-
tograph • one of her books. Being
recognized world-wide is • some-
thing Redick will have to get, used
to but the says her„experience in .
Japan was very rewarding -and
looks . tiirward to teaching in Sin-
gapore next . year: -
"They were very attentive- and
talented.” • she said of the Japanese
students. • adding. 'The people
made the•trip.'
Redick will be offering a three-
day',seminar in Zurich from r Noy.
28-31)and. will bring - world-
renowned artist and designer Pris-
cilla Hauser to The Tole Booth
from Sept. 19-29, to teach two basic
classes. • Hauser, based is. Tulsa.
Oklahoma is Credited with making
the craft accessible and known to
people around the world. Spaces
are still available in both sessions.
If Redick wasn't busy enough
with travelling, teaching and de-.
signing, she is also expecting a lit-
ter of English Setter puppies at the
beginning of September. Her
champion show dogs are another
passion that always keeps life in-
teresting in the Redick household. •
Redick can be contacted at her
website at: HTTP//WWW. to-
lenet.com/heather/.
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