After our first good cold snap of the winter a couple weeks ago, lakes across Northwestern Ontario finally are frozen after an unseasonably warm fall. For those of us who enjoy ice-fishing, a new season is now upon us. Ice conditions early in the season can be tougher to predict […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
In what has become a tradition over the past decade for me and my friends, we took our annual late-season moose hunting trip up north last week for the last few days of the 2016 Ontario rifle season. We like the late-season hunting because we can use snowmobiles to get […]
Ice-fishing really has evolved over the past couple of decades when you consider that we’ve gone from sitting on a bucket using tree branches for strike indicators to having insulated portable shelters, power augers, and high-end graphite rods. The annual St. Paul Ice Show took place this past weekend and […]
Over the past weekend, I was invited out to Shoal Lake #39 to participate in its second-annual fisheries conference. Headed by band councillor Karen Kejick, there’s a push being made by Shoal Lake #39 to open the walleye fishery on Shoal Lake for both sport-fishing and commercial fishing activities to […]
Other than a three-month stint working for a contractor friend of mine just out of university, and a couple of years on the supply teacher list in Kenora, the only jobs I’ve ever had have been related to the fishing and outdoor industry in some manner. My first guide trip […]
While I understand the healthy deer population in our city centres across Northwestern Ontario drives everybody nuts, especially who want to have a garden or grow flowers, it really isn’t an indication of the deer numbers outside of town, where deer took a massive hit following tough winters in 2013 […]
As someone who enjoys participating in just about any outdoor activity you can come up with, waterfowl hunting is one I absolutely love doing but don’t have a ton of experience with. The thing I like most about it is that it’s more social than other types of hunting because […]
It was exactly two years ago this week that my pal, Mike Reid, and I spent a day out on Lake of the Woods shooting a “Fishing with Gussy” episode for musky. We fished hard all day and while we had a few follows, hooked a couple of muskies, and […]
Every year around this time, I usually write a column about hunting—and make mention of the great grouse hunting we have right across Sunset Country. We’re now a good way through the 2016 season and I’m going to say that this year has been one of the best I can […]
It’s no secret we have a long winter up here in Sunset Country. So like many anglers, I try to keep the boat wet as long as the weather permits. We still have at least a few weeks of open water left before things start to freeze up—and the fall […]
The bass tournament season in Sunset Country wrapped up this past weekend with the fourth-annual Frank McClymont Memorial Tournament, which took place Saturday in Kenora. Frank McClymont fished bass tournaments in Northwestern Ontario since they started back in the late 1980s and was a positive influence on many of us […]
The 12th-annual Whitefish Bay Fall Classic bass tournament took place over the weekend in Sioux Narrows. In what is becoming a trend for our fall tournaments on Lake of the Woods, Winnipeg angler Ted Stewner once again found himself atop the leaderboard after the two-day event. Stewner, who usually fishes […]
