As waters across the Sunset Country Region began to freeze over for another winter, anglers will get the desire to get back on the ice because there are fish to be caught. We have some of the best ice fishing opportunities in the World right here in NW Ontario but […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
Having the worst tournament of my career in tournament competition was not how I wanted to finish off the 2020 season. The final Bassmaster Elite Series event of the year took place this past weekend at Lake Fork, Texas, one of the most well-known big bass fisheries in the World. […]
The final event of the Bassmaster Elite Series season is set to take place this week at Lake Fork, Texas, one of the top big bass lakes in the World. After a season that featured several cancelled and rescheduled events, we can finally see the light at the end of […]
Growing up in northwestern Ontario and participating in hunting as much as I could growing up, moose were definitely on a pedestal for me and many others as the premier hunting opportunity in our part of the world. My dad used to tell me stories about moose hunting when he […]
Over the past eight years that I have made my living as a professional bass tournament competitor, I have fished back-to-back events several times. I like it because most of the venues that we fish are so far from home for me, so knocking off two events in one trip […]
Heading into this last stretch of the Bassmaster Elite Series season where we have four events over a six week period I will admit that I was a little bit nervous about my chances of success. We knew the fishing was going to be tough at these tournaments, it’s just […]
The Bassmaster Elites Series season resumed last week with the first of three events in a row at Lake Guntersville in Northern Alabama. Guntersville is one of the most historic bass fishing lakes in the U.S., hosting dozens of big tournaments over the years. When I left for Alabama last […]
While I was driving to Alabama on Saturday for my upcoming Bassmaster Elite Series tournament at Lake Guntersville, a bunch of my friends back home were making me jealous, catching some monster Sunset Country bass. Several tournaments took place across the region over the weekend, on Shoal Lake, Lake of […]
For those of us across Sunset Country who enjoy tournament fishing, the fall is prime time with events happening somewhere across the region every weekend into early October. This past weekend we had the Crow Lake Classic in Nestor Falls thanks to the Hanson family who hosted the event out […]
Back in 1996, my good friend Mike Reid and I were 13 years old when we decided we would team up for the first annual Bassin’ For Bucks in Sioux Narrows. Sioux Narrows anglers Mel Giesbrecht and Chris Bell were some of the top tournament anglers in NW Ontario at […]
What a difference a week makes in this part of the World with regards to the weather. We went from beautiful summer temperatures to wrap up the month of August and a week later we are getting frost warnings, the winds have been blowing hard every day and you can […]
As a professional angler, part of my gig is to promote the products that my sponsors create. I try to share my fishing knowledge and experience as to how it is related to these different products, for everything from lures to rods and reels to clothing and electronics. I try […]
