One of the great things about my fishing activities is that I get to meet a lot of people from all over the world. Through both guiding and competitive fishing, I have been able to cross paths with people from all walks of life and made many friendships. One of […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
For hunters across Northwest Ontario, last year’s brutal winter is still leaving its mark. Our whitetail deer population is in tough shape. It has been for a while but the deep snow and long, cold winter that we experienced last year was another big hit to our deer herd. The […]
Earlier this week I had a friend from south of the border send me a text message saying that he was out on Lake of the Woods and that the musky fishing was insane. He told me that it was his favourite place in the World. The message made my […]
October is one of my favourite times of year around home. Across the Sunset Country region, fishing is excellent in the fall for walleye, bass, crappie, pike and musky. Plenty of options and arguably the best time of year to catch the biggest specimens of each species. Great hunting opportunities […]
If you follow media in the fishing community at all you have surely heard about the crazy cheating scandal in a walleye tournament on Lake Erie a few weeks ago. Two anglers, who have experienced significant success over the past few years in the Lake Erie Walleye Trail brought their […]
The final Sunset Country bass tournament of the season took place Saturday on Lake of the Woods with the tenth annual Frank McClymont Memorial tournament. This is a one day tournament that has become very popular in recent years. Part of the reason for the popularity is because tournament organizer […]
As the bass tournament season winds down across the Sunset Country region, anglers were greeted with another weekend of excellent fall weather for a pair of tournaments that took place. The Whitefish Bay Fall Classic happened on Lake of the Woods in Sioux Narrows, while up north, the Kickin’ B’ass […]
One of the reasons for the busy bass tournament schedule across Northwest Ontario in September is because the fishing is so good. It’s also a short season and there are only so many weekends to host events before the weather really turns. This past weekend there were tournaments at Shoal […]
While most of the bass tournaments across the region happen on the bigger waterbodies, like Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods, there are a few that happen each year on smaller lakes. This past weekend, the annual Crow Lake Classic was put on again out of Hanson’ Hideaway Lodge […]
The 26th annual Bassin’ For Bucks tournament took place over the weekend in Sioux Narrows and for the anglers fishing this year, it was a week of beautiful weather, making for a fun weekend. A full field of 120 teams fished this year, as has been the case for many years, […]
This column has had a pretty heavy bass focus over the past couple of months so we’re going to go a different direction this week for all of you anglers out there that enjoy fishing for other species. While I was out last week on Lake of the Woods, I […]
The final event of the 2022 Bassmaster Elite Series season took place this past weekend on the Mississippi River, out of Lacrosse, Wisconsin. After starting in February down in Florida, nine events later, I have got to see a good chunk of the United States over the past seven months. […]
