If there is one place in Northwestern Ontario that I wished I spent more time fishing when I was younger, it certainly has to be the Rainy River in early April. Every spring, thousands of walleyes from Lake of the Woods make a run up the 137-km river in pursuit […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
Last week was one that I’ll remember for a long time down at Lake Hartwell in South Carolina. The second event of the 2016 FLW Tour took place last weekend on the 60,000 acre reservoir and things went my way en route to 4th place finish, my best yet in […]
The March thaw is one of my favourite times of the year around home. The late-season ice fishing is great because we catch some of the biggest walleye, pike, and lake trout of the year (while the ice is still safe, of course) and it’s simply a nice time of […]
Over the past several years, the explosion of the winter walleye fishery on Lake Winnipeg has led to the development of new techniques for catching these big, aggressive fish. At the forefront of this “revolution” is using lipless rattle baits for catching walleye under the ice. While Lake Winnipeg certainly […]
As a youngster, one of my favourite weekends of the entire winter was when my parents would take me to Winnipeg for the annual Mid-Canada Boat Show, which has taken place over the first weekend in March for years. I used to save up as much money as I could […]
Throughout the open-water fishing season, I like to catch whatever fish wants to bite although but my focus is on bass fishing more than anything else. I live for competing in tournaments and spend a lot of my time chasing bass around—looking for new spots and different ways to catch […]
The first event of the 2016 FLW Tour took place last week down in Clewiston, Fla. on Lake Okeechobee. Some 170 anglers are fishing the Tour this year, which features six events across the U.S. and wraps up in June at Lake Champlain in Vermont. Last week, I wrote about […]
For ice anglers from Sioux Narrows and surrounding areas, the last weekend in January has grown into a tradition with the annual Crystal Harbour Ice Derby on Regina Bay. Once a two-day event that was started in the early 1990s, it has evolved into a one-day competition where anglers can […]
This week, my column is coming from down in Florida as I prepare for my first FLW Tour bass tournament of the season next week at Lake Okeechobee. Lest anybody feel any jealousy that I’m down south, I can’t write that it is warm and sunny here right now. The […]
After a mild start to the winter, we finally got a taste of what some real Canadian winter weather feels like over the past week or so. When wind chills dip the temperature below minus-30 C, outdoor activities really star to lose their fun. We have issues with everything freezing, […]
The cold weather that’s been around for the past few days, uncomfortable as it is, has done wonders to fix the ice conditions on lakes across Sunset Country. After a mild December, most of the lakes across the region had very poor ice conditions heading into the new year. Heavy […]
The holidays are something I look forward to every year for a number of reasons. We get to spend some time with friends and family that we might not get to see a lot of throughout the rest of the year, we generally eat pretty good, and most folks take […]
