Will Sampson has been fishing in Toronto Harbour for his entire life and he couldn’t believe what was happening.
The water was calm last Sunday morning as Sampson and a friend trolled their usual spots between Toronto Island and the downtown waterfront. A layer of fog still covered the city’s towering skyline.
With the CN Tower and other Toronto landmarks just a few hundred metres away, Sampson landed a big fish rarely seen in the big city.
“It was definitely a shock and we knew we had caught a unicorn.”
At first Sampson thought he had a large pike, a species more common to the
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