My first Bassmaster Classic experience over the past week in Birmingham, Alabama was pretty amazing. Although my results were not great, finishing 31st out of a field of 53 anglers, the whole week will go down as one of the highlights of my fishing career. A lot of great memories […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
A couple of weeks back I was supposed to be fishing in a bass tournament at Lake Chickamauga in Tennessee, the second stop of the 2020 season on the Bassmaster Elite Series. The tournament was scheduled the week after our first event down in Florida but while I was driving […]
The few weeks that I got to spend down in Florida recently was a nice break from our long Canadian winter. But after being home for a week or so, I can tell you it’s nice to be back. I like that we get four seasons here in Northwest Ontario […]
One thing about competitive fishing is you just never know what kind of conditions will be put in front of you in a tournament. The first Bassmaster Elite Series event of the season took place this past weekend on the St. John’s River in Florida and we were faced with […]
After a couple weeks of having fun down here in Florida, it’s time to get serious this week as the 2020 Bassmaster Elite Series kicks off on the St. John’s River. It feels pretty good to be back in a boat, I can tell you that. Fishing in Florida is […]
As anglers we all have bucket list places where we would love to go fishing. Heck, I have several. Salmon fishing in Alaska, lake trout on Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, maybe peacock bass fishing in Brazil. This past weekend my wife Shelby and I had the opportunity […]
After several weeks of preparations to my fishing gear and a new boat I finally got to hit the road for Florida late last week to get ready for my upcoming bass tournament season. After some great winter weather over the holidays, when the recent cold snap hit, it was […]
Since I started writing this column back in 2007 I have literally written hundreds of them. When Jim Cumming, then publisher of the Fort Frances Times, reached out to me and asked if I would be interested in doing it, he said I could write about whatever I wanted, outdoors […]
This story has been told before in past columns, but as a kid growing up around Lake of the Woods there was not a chance that my Dad or his buddies would ever get caught dead with a perch on their stringer or in their bucket. The perception was that […]
For many of us who enjoy ice fishing there have been a bunch of great memories created on the ice over the Christmas holidays. While I was going through school, the two week Christmas break was always one of my favourite times of the year because it meant there would […]
For the past 15 years or so, a group of friends and I have been heading north in Sunset Country for the last week of the moose hunting season that closes annually on Dec. 15. Typically it’s cold and the hunting is tough but we always have a good time […]
Back in July, my wife and my mother attended the Sioux Narrows Arts Festival, an annual event that attracts the top artists from around the region. After, they returned home they both mentioned that the highlight of all the cool stuff they saw were these handmade bowls and mugs with […]
