So, you’re Jamie Davis. At 17 years of age, you’re young. You’re athletically-gifted. You just signed a contract with the Winkler Flyers Junior-A hockey team. You have realistic aspirations of playing with a U.S. College team and maybe even head over to Europe and play professionally. So what are you […]
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The forecast last Wednesday called for rain. And it did. Did it ever. And the forecast for that night’s Borderland Soccer League action was that the number-one team in Gillons would trounce the third-place Taggs. But Taggs brought a halt to that outlook as Mike Webb notched a hat-trick to […]
Move over, Billy and Jim. Max and David are breathing down your backs. No, this isn’t about the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, but there is another family from Minnesota that is making a name for itself in Borderland. The Lindner brothers are no longer the only family team to […]
Welcome to Melissa Armstrong’s world. While most of us are still in a dream state, her routine begins every day at 5 o’clock in the morning. She wakes up and goes for a run before heading to work later that morning. She’s a full-time nurse in an operating room and […]
The Rendezvous Yacht Club held their longest race of the season on Saturday. Colin Hewitt won this year’s Kettle Falls Race with Kevin Peterson coming in second. Warren Wagness was third overall and the first of the Class A boats. The race started at 10 a.m. just north of Grindstone […]
Having his team’s first day weight disqualified, felt like being slapped in the face and stabbed in the back, said Joe Prichett. Prichett and his partner Hiram Archibald, both of Sioux Narrows, had their 16.08 pound bag disqualified in the first day of the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship […]
Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship volunteer Brian Hebert has an uncanny ability of guessing the weights of the angler’s baskets before they go up on stage. Frankly, it’s a little creepy. With a mere glance he makes the call—and 90 percent of the time he gets it within one or […]
They kept on slipping. Like being in quicksand, they fell lower and lower in the standings. From 21st after the first day, to 29th after the second. Guy Johnston and Doug Wright, both of Fort Frances, couldn’t explain it. They had found the fish during their pre-fishing and now they […]
The night before the final day of the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, in an overcrowded room at the Rainbow Motel, it was said and it was heard. The top two teams in John Guzej and Ted Stewner and James and Bill Lindner, were joined by the 10th place […]
Daniel and Ron Lindner (Team #128) hadn’t even begun fishing on Day One of the tournament when they hit a rock going through a narrow pass. “We hit a rock that we knew was there, bent the whole propeller, broke half the skag off. Pretty much broke the lower unit,” […]
For their first time as partners in a tournament they did okay. In journalism circles, this is what we call an understatement. Kirk and Gene Boyer, who have fished non-competitively a countless number of times together since childhood and have been in numerous tournaments with other partners, had never competed […]
The 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship has come and gone, but the milestone anniversary is a good opportunity to look back at the beginnings of the tournament and the dedicated people who got it off the ground. Lionel Robert had been attending and emceeing at tournaments across Canada and […]
