Looking back at New York’s Adirondack bush pilots of yesteryear

When I was a kid, I was lucky to go along with my father and a friend of his to set up the annual hunting camp at New York’s West Canada Lake. We flew in with veteran Eagle Bay bush pilot Bud Windhausen who picked us up at a place called Shallow Shore, in Speculator.
This was a great trip for me to be back in that remote country in the early fall before the start of hunting season with a chill in the air and leaves beginning to fall. One night we borrowed the ranger’s big flashlight and spotted five- and ten-pound lake trout spawning in shallow water next to the boat not far from the ranger cabin.

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