During the years that I was in high school and then university, I spent my summers working at tourist resorts around the region as a fishing guide. It’s been around 20 years since I did my first trip out at Ash Rapids Lodge on Lake of the Woods and since […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
Outside of a few weeks in the spring when crappies move to shallow water to spawn, they spend the rest of the year in deeper water. They seem to disappear over the summer months, when they suspend in deeper weeds and simply are hard to find. In the fall and […]
After the long winter we experienced this year, the nice weather across Northwestern Ontario over the past week sure has been a pleasure. Hopefully it’s a sign of what’s to come over the next few months. As water temperatures have increased rapidly over the past week, so has the fishing […]
Saturday is a big day for anglers across Sunset Country as it marks the opening weekend of a new walleye season. It’s a busy weekend on area waters as many folks are itching to get back in the boat after a long winter. The appeal of a feed of fresh […]
Around this time every year, there is a lot of anticipation to get the boat in the water and start a new fishing season. More open water is popping up every day if you want to wet a line. But for those of you who are happy to simply spend […]
The second of two FLW Tour tournaments over a three-week span took place this past weekend at Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama. Lewis Smith is a lake that I’ve visited twice in the past so I had some experience to go off of, and things went pretty well en route […]
In seven years of travelling all over the U.S. to compete in bass tournaments, I’ve been pretty fortunate that I’ve never had any of my fishing gear stolen out of my boat or truck. Alas, that all changed last week in Kentucky when the back of my truck was nearly […]
After a very tough three-day practice last week prior to the Lake Cumberland FLW Tour bass tournament down in Kentucky, my expectations were not that great heading into the event. However, I was confident I would be able to put something together in the tournament and find a way to […]
My column is coming in late this week because I just finished up the three-day practice for the Lake Cumberland FLW Tour event this week in Kentucky. It probably has been the toughest practice I’ve had since I started fishing these tournaments back in 2012, and the dark-to-dark fishing had […]
As I lifted a walleye out of my hole in the ice over the weekend, I decided that would be it for me for the day. It was my fourth “keeper” fish of the morning, making my limit, so I had accomplished what I had set out to do–catch a […]
Growing up, fishing has always been the activity that I have been most interested in since I was six or seven years old. I was fortunate that my family had a camp out on Lake of the Woods, in Echo Bay, on the west end of the lake. The camp […]
Since I returned home to Canada last week after a few weeks of bass fishing in the southern U.S., I wasted little time before getting on the Sunset Country ice to catch some fish. Before I left on this last trip, I had booked several guide trips for ice-fishing over […]
