It’s been 22 years since Sioux Narrows’ anglers Chris Bell and Mel Giesbrecht started the first “Bassin’ For Bucks” tournament on Lake of the Woods there. They wanted a three-day tournament that offered rewards for daily catches and aggregate catches, which is a great way to spread the prize money […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
After a few weeks of my focus being on bass fishing, it was nice to get a break from the tournament scene last week to fish around home and catch some fish to eat. I had a few guide trips booked and most of the clients wanted to fish for […]
The 14th-annual International Falls Bass Championship took place this past weekend and a full field of 60 teams competed for two days on Rainy Lake and the Rainy River. The tournament has evolved over the years from the format it started with where teams competed on the U.S. side of […]
As a bass angler, pike tend to annoy me quite often because when we fish for bass, we don’t use leaders so they bite off our baits all the time. And it seems like the more expensive the lure, the shorter its life span. When we’re bass fishing, it’s usually […]
When everything wrapped up over the weekend at Lake Ouachita and Hot Springs, Ark., it could be called one of the hottest, toughest weeks of fishing I’ve ever seen. In the end, Alabama angler Clent Davis rallied from 10th place on the final day with the largest catch of the […]
As the Kenora Bass International tournament goes into its 31st year this weekend on Lake of the Woods, I will be down in Arkansas once again competing in the Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Ouachita. While I will miss fishing the KBI and competing against all of my buddies, getting […]
Growing up Northwest Ontario is pretty awesome if you like to fish because of all the great waters that we have just outside our doors. I grew up in Kenora but up until a few years ago I had never really fished on the Winnipeg River, mostly because I was […]
It will be another busy weekend for bass anglers across the Sunset Country region with tournaments going on in both Kenora and Fort Frances. The 24th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is set to kick off tomorrow morning on Rainy Lake while up in Kenora, the Bronzeback Classic is taking […]
Two bass tournaments and a walleye tournament took place across Sunset Country over the past weekend and despite some strong winds on Saturday, it was a pretty nice weekend to be in the boat. My pal, Karl Engstrom, and I teamed for the Shoal Lake Bass Classic and ended up […]
The final stop of the 2018 FLW Tour took place this past weekend at Lake St. Clair on the Michigan/Ontario border. After a great few days of pre-fishing with my brother, Ben, I was excited to get the tournament started. I was confident I was going to catch a bunch […]
The seventh and final stop of the FLW Tour regular season takes place this week at Lake St. Clair, along the Michigan/Ontario border, which is one of the best smallmouth lakes in North America. When the schedule was announced last summer, this was the lake that excited me the most […]
The third Saturday in June marked the opening of musky season across Sunset Country. Following along on some of my friends’ social media feeds over the weekend, it looked like the musky fishing was pretty good as plenty of nice fish were popping up, which is nice to see. Through […]
