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 […]
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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 […]
Kenora’s Mark Skrzypek has been trying for years to get a spot in the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. This year, his name was finally drawn. And with the 2005 tournament now a thing of the past, he insisted it was well worth the wait. “I loved it,” Skrzypek enthused. […]
In addition to what emcee Paul Morrison dubbed a “Sioux Narrows invasion” atop the leaderboard at the 11th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, a number of Rainy River District anglers proved local teams are capable of making waves against some of North America’s best. While Devlin’s Bill Godin, who once […]
There isn’t any question that James Lindner is one of the best anglers to ever hit the waters of Rainy Lake. “James Lindner is probably the number-one bass angler in the world,” said Lionel Robert, who was emcee of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship for its first 10 years. […]
Devlin’s Paul Jewiss, left, and partner Mike Graham, of Fort Frances, bag bass on the final day of the tournament. Jewiss and Graham placed 17th overall, and were also the top local team. –Wes Gilbertson photo
Andrew Eldridge, eight, got down to some serious munching on Wednesday during the donut-eating contest in Daytime Land at the FFCBC. —Melanie Béchard photo
Nature Events co-ordinator Neill Stewart led a group of 15 people to help pull up and destroy purple loosestrife last weekend at Rocky Inlet. –Submitted photo
Nineteen month-old Nate Bruyere, centre, the winner of Beta Sigma Phi Alpha Upsilon chapter’s 2005 “Beach Baby” contest, posed for a photo with his mother, Molly Foster, Monday at the Times office. At left was second-place winner Cohen Felix, left, six months, with his mother, Shaye Felix, and third-place winner, […]
Dave Lindsay, left,and his father Lee were all smiles as the duo was pulled into the big tent for the final weigh-ins of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship on Saturday afternoon at the Sorting Gap Marina. Dave and Lee weighed in a three-day total of 51.61 pounds, edging Dave’s […]
