Dear editor: We would like to thank all the anglers who fished the Kid-Pro tournament this year. Nicole was fortunate to have been able to fish with Wayne Howard and Bob Limberg. She had a wonderful time and an experience she will never forget, thank you Wayne and Bob. It […]
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Dear sir: I would like everyone to know that now the flowers are all planted and have taken hold, that our cemeteries are a mass of colour. Nowhere in the world are there any as good. We should be proud of them. The staff who have worked so hard to […]
Amos Brielmann is a gambler. Actually, he is a farmer, which, by definition, makes him a gambler. Like everyone in the beef industry, he is struggling to overcome the devastating fallout from the BSE crisis in Canada, but at the same time, he is looking ahead. Yesterday, the Rainy River […]
They kept on slipping. Like being in quicksand, they fell lower and lower in the standings. From 21st after the first day, to 29th after the second. Guy Johnston and Doug Wright, both of Fort Frances, couldn’t explain it. They had found the fish during their pre-fishing and now they […]
The night before the final day of the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, in an overcrowded room at the Rainbow Motel, it was said and it was heard. The top two teams in John Guzej and Ted Stewner and James and Bill Lindner, were joined by the 10th place […]
Rainycrest Home for the Aged’s board of management is looking into options to reduce operational costs at the long-term care facility, including the possibility of privatization. “The basic problem is that our expenses continue to increase and we can’t continue to proceed in that direction,” said board chair Dennis Brown. […]
Daniel and Ron Lindner (Team #128) hadn’t even begun fishing on Day One of the tournament when they hit a rock going through a narrow pass. “We hit a rock that we knew was there, bent the whole propeller, broke half the skag off. Pretty much broke the lower unit,” […]
This is not a story, but rather a tale. A tale of four men who understand each other better than they know themselves. Four fishermen intertwined by a tournament that has brought triumph to few and tragedy to many. They are on polar ends of the spectrum—one group enjoying the […]
For their first time as partners in a tournament they did okay. In journalism circles, this is what we call an understatement. Kirk and Gene Boyer, who have fished non-competitively a countless number of times together since childhood and have been in numerous tournaments with other partners, had never competed […]
The 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship has come and gone, but the milestone anniversary is a good opportunity to look back at the beginnings of the tournament and the dedicated people who got it off the ground. Lionel Robert had been attending and emceeing at tournaments across Canada and […]
The culmination of each day at the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is, of course, the weigh-in. As each team presents its catch, the tension mounts as the weights go on the leader board, but much is done before the fish even reach the stage in the big tent. Before […]
