They have been preparing for quite some time now. They’ve been studying harder than a Harvard law student about to take the bar exam, looking at wind patterns, cold and warm fronts, water temperatures, and anything else imaginable that would affect their fishing. For some anglers competing in the 10th-annual […]
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The 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship got underway this morning with 138 teams vying for a record purse of $172,000, including the first-place prize of $50,000. Defending champs Bill and James Lindner were the first team to hit the throttle on Sand Bay at 7 a.m. in defence of […]
Shane Raveling and his partner, Jason Carlson, have been fishing Rainy Lake since Saturday—even though they only were on the waiting list for this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. From early morning to late afternoon, they fished and patiently waited for their chance. They hoped for it. They wondered […]
They have a big, red bull’s-eye tattooed on their backs. James and Bill Lindner are the defending champions of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship and everyone is watching them. Studying them. Noting their every action. Cataloguing their every response and jotting down there movements. They don’t mind, though, because […]
What Charles Darwin was to theories of evolution; (blank) is to the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. The answer? John Maffei. Quite simply, he is the innovator, the contractor, the sculptor, the fabricator, the pioneer, and the creator of the largest fishing tournament in Canada. He is the reason why […]
Early on Monday, Randy Amenrud woke up around 2 a.m. not able to sleep and not knowing what to do. He got dressed in his fishing outfit, readied the boat, loaded the rods, reels, and tackle boxes, and went back inside his room at the Rainbow Motel here. He went […]
Jim Barnick lived the high life Monday. He was able to do the two things he loves most in this world in the same day—fishing in the morning, with baseball coming in the afternoon. Barnick, from Hollywood, Fla., is an angler competing in the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship later […]
Young anglers had the first crack at the bass yesterday during the Kid-Pro tournament held annually in conjunction with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. Each participant fished with at least one adult angler who will be competing in the FFCBC later this week, taking pictures of their catch, recording […]
They’re not here to lose, they’ve come to win—or at least make it inside the big tent for the final weigh-in a week from Saturday. No other result will be good enough for Ted Krause and Brent Lake in this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, which runs next Thursday […]
It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t graceful, and it certainly wasn’t routine, but Taggs took what they had and netted a 2-1 victory against Curves yesterday evening in women’s Borderland Soccer Association action. Taggs had a some extra motivation going into the game after being trounced by Curves 7-2 the previous […]
We were sitting in the lower part of the Kitchen Creek clubhouse last Wednesday around 2 p.m. “Snake” Krawchuk took a seat on a semi-comfortable chair, placed his arms on the rests, and leaned back. He wore a red golf shirt with basche shorts and a white Cleveland golf hat […]
She has braked the ache, nuttered, butter slided, durfed, loaded the line, burnt the toast, teared an eyelid, and even suffered from an occasional kook. But now, former Fort Frances resident Tressa Main would like to “spread the love” of wakeboarding by holding a clinic in her hometown and where […]
