Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Most people like to pick up interesting gadgets and gifts from their travels. I tend to go overboard. Once I carried two 15-pound, vine-ripened watermelons, another time a dozen delicious fresh pineapples, through airports ’til my arms felt stretched to the floor. My take-home items since then are lighter. Recently, […]
It’s fall again. Autumn if you want to wax poetic. And think about it, for a minute, what would autumn be without leaves? Oaks, maples, aspens, cottonwoods, green ash all blanketing the countryside with colour. It’s because of autumn leaves that we think nostalgically and longingly of New England, the […]
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall–and so can you. But unlike the nursery rhyme tale, your fall fishing can be put back together again if you fish the humps or sunken islands of some of the larger lakes. Walleyes are a structure-oriented fish, most of the time. These walleyes will […]
Well, I was wrong–again. I didn’t think it was possible, or even desirable, for a nation’s economy to depend primarily on tourism. But Israel is doing it, in spite of the political strife that continues to erupt violently there. I just returned from a two-week “service tour.” The first part […]
Construction of the new regional hospital is proceeding energetically. It will be big, beautiful, and as state-of-the-art as our public and private purses allow. Actually, I hope even a little more so. Now explorations are underway about whether we should have a northern medical school, and whether we should have […]
Maybe, just maybe, I’ll change over to musky tournaments now that the survival rate is almost guaranteed 100 percent. A customer of mine, Jim Groves, asked me to be his partner at a musky tournament at Cass Lake, Mn. But knowing the survival rate was low, I refused his invitation. […]
To what economic class do you belong? Tick one: Before you read on, do it, really. Mark where you think you fit. Social status used to be linked to income. How much one earned or owned was related to where and in what type of dwelling one lived, the amount […]
As the fall turnover starts, most anglers head for the typical shoreline to fish points that have rock rubble extending out to deeper water. Fishing success during and immediately following the turnover is generally poor because fish need time to adjust to their new environment. For that reason, I tend […]
The challenge facing any angler today is not so much deciding which type of cover to fish, but rather, which type of line to use. Regular monofilament with stretch? Braided line without stretch? A fusion line with a little stretch but thinner diameter? Maybe even a combination, such as a […]
Always remember ‘practice makes perfect’ “Practice makes perfect,” they say. And without question, it is true. Take tennis, for example. Tennis pros practice long hours each day to stay in shape. And your game will never move beyond the point of embarrassment unless you play regularly for substantial blocks of […]
With the dog days of summer upon us, the fish have really slowed down. Here are some tips that you can use to produce more fish during this difficult time. Jig modification and the use of a natural bait will produce more and bigger fish. Jigs account for most of […]
Livebait rigging or jigging the edges of prominent mid-lake structure captures the essence of fishing walleyes in the summer. Fish are not randomly scattered through any body of water, be it a pond, lake, large reservoir, stream, river, ocean, bay, or slough; rather, they’re always found in specific areas. These […]
