After 45 holes were played at the first-annual Onigaming tournament at Heron Landing on Couchiching over the weekend, Bob Crowe was proclaimed the winner by two strokes. Crowe, who sports a three handicap, said he played steady and “hung in there and that’s about all I did” as he topped […]
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The pair of Minnesota anglers won the 18th-annual Kenora Bass International, a three-day tournament on Lake of the Woods that wrapped up on Saturday. John Liestman and David Heitke of Paynesville netted the $30,000 first prize after hauling in a total weight of 50.65 pounds. Bill Godin of Devlin and […]
Ever since he was named head coach for the newest American Hockey League team in the form of the Des Moines Stars a few months ago, every day has felt like Christmas for Dave Allison. “Well, it’s been like Boxing Day this past week, but this is Christmas,” said Allison. […]
By the time you read this, Alex Parent already will have arrived in Toronto, where he will spend a couple of days practising with Team Ontario before the Canada Games get underway Saturday in Regina, Sask. “I’m really looking forward to it,” said Parent, 16. “Pretty excited, but not really […]
They can thank Hiroshi Yamauchi and Bill Gates for their consistent placings at the Emo Speedway. Those two big wigs essentially are the inventors of obesity, as Yamauchi is the maker of Nintendo while Gates came up with the XBox, but video games only have inflated the minds of Kendal […]
Like all hockey players growing up, Greg Beller dreamed of playing in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final and racing end-to-end to notch the game-winning goal. “I’ve always dreamed of that,” he said. On Saturday, that dream got one step closer to becoming a reality for the 18-year-old Rainy […]
It was just a bad three days of golf for Steve Wood and Glen Mills. The professionals at Kitchen Creek both shot well below what they expected at the MPGA Championships at the Elmhurst Golf and Country Club, which began Monday and wrapped up yesterday. Mills shot a collective score […]
Fishing and poker; poker and fishing—the two go hand in hand like diuretics at a Victoria’s Secret summer fashion show. And the dock at the Sorting Gap Marina perfectly encapsulated such a statement—especially when the top 10 boats after Day 2 started filtering their way to their designated spots on […]
While Dave and Lee Lindsay were accepting congratulatory handshakes from other anglers and the crowd, there stood Paul Morrison collecting his notes with a smile on his face and a slight rasp in his voice. On the stand with his notes also were three packs of Halls Extra Strength lozenges […]
A fish and game check of 319 people on Highway 72, south of Sioux Lookout, found 97 percent of anglers abided by the rules of fishing. The July 23 blitz was carried out by Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers from Sioux Lookout and Dryden, as well as the Sioux […]
What Bugs Bunny is to Elmer Fudd, the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship crown is to Mike Luhman and Mark Raveling. The pair probably are the best team to have not won the FFCBC, which suggests they are under-achievers. But that’s certainly not to say they are bad anglers. On […]
Chapter 132 of the fabulously-written tale, “Moby Dick,” begins with the line, ‘It was a clear steel-blue day.” And it was Mark Libitka and Dave Bennett who were following Herman Melville’s storyline. That chapter is labelled “The Symphony,” and it seemed surprisingly orchestrated that Libitka and Bennett would be the […]
