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 […]
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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 […]
The culmination of each day at the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is, of course, the weigh-in. As each team presents its catch, the tension mounts as the weights go on the leader board, but much is done before the fish even reach the stage in the big tent. Before […]
Whether or not a team will be disqualified for coming in late at the end of the fishing day is an issue that often comes up at tournaments and is the source of much contention. The general rule that if a team is late for check-in, they lose their weight […]
There may have been some doubt in their minds. They might even have questioned their chances. But James and Bill Lindner remained confident. They were always confident. Confident in their ability. Confident in their skill. And confident that they would repeat as champions at the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass […]
After the first day of action at the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, John Guzej and Ted Stewner find themselves in a familiar position—in second place behind James and Bill Lindner. Last year, after leading the pack heading into Day 3, the pair had to settle for second place—2.7 […]
