Hunting season started a couple of months ago but for hunters who have yet to fill their deer or moose tags, they are running out of time because the season will come to an end on Dec. 15. It has not been a very successful season for me. I have […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
While we haven’t experienced a lot of super cold weather so far, it has been cold in general for well over a month so all of the smaller bodies of water across Sunset Country are covered with ice. The minimal amount of snow also has helped the ice to form […]
At this point of the year, the start of our long winter, it’s hard to believe that warm weather ever is going to come around. But every spring, the snow melts and we get to experience the beautiful Sunset Country summers year after year. For the angler on your Christmas […]
Since I started writing this column way back in 2007, I’ve always put together a Christmas gift-buying guide for the outdoors person but I’ve usually waited until a week or two before Christmas to do it. For the last-minute buyer, this probably helped but most people likely already were finished […]
Over the past few months, there have been some sweeping changes in the professional bass fishing landscape. For the past couple of decades, the FLW Tour and the Bassmaster Elite Series have been the premier high-end bass tournament circuits. But that all changed in September when Major League Fishing announced […]
As the small lakes across Northwestern Ontario freeze over this week, most of the regular bass and walleye anglers have packed their gear away for another season. Musky anglers are a different breed, however, many of which are known to break ice with their boats to get in those last […]
Brainerd, Mn. is a small city, a little bit bigger than Fort Frances and Kenora, but it is one of the epicenters for the fishing community in North America. Back in the 1970s, Al and Ron Lindner, two brothers from Chicago, moved to Brainerd because of its proximity to countless […]
While hunting seasons for most birds and animals have been open for weeks already, for people like me who like to get in every bit of fishing we can, the hunting season only is starting to ramp up now that the fishing has begun to cool down. Over the past […]
Two American anglers had quite the scare last week when they went missing for three days on Lake of the Woods during the first snowfall of the season. It’s unclear exactly how the father and son ended up some 50 km up the lake from where they were staying at […]
The bass tournament season in Northwestern Ontario wrapped up over the weekend with the last few tournaments of 2018. While the weather was not great, it’s a long winter for those of us who enjoy chasing bass and competing in tournaments, so we get in all of the events we […]
It wasn’t exactly nice weather for bass fishing but it’s a long winter here in Northwestern Ontario so for many of us who enjoy competing in these tournaments, we’re fishing no matter what Mother Nature throws at us to get in all the fishing we can before another season comes […]
For the past several years, the Crow Lake Classic bass tournament has been a fun, smaller event that attracted 20-something teams each year and consisted of mostly local anglers as well as a few out-of-town duos. While the event has been going on for about 15 years, the Hanson family […]
