Three fishing tournaments took place over the weekend on Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake, keeping competitive anglers across Sunset Country happy before the long winter ahead. Down on Rainy Lake, LaBelle’s Birch Point Camp put on a one-day, three-fish bass tournament on Saturday. The International Falls father-and-son team […]
Jeff Gustafson – Livewell
While the fishing season for most species remains open through the fall and winter seasons, anglers who enjoy catching lake trout only have about a week left in the season before it closes from Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Lake trout spawn in the fall, in the coming weeks, on shallow, wind-swept […]
The 19-annual “Bassin’ For Bucks” tournament took place over the weekend in Sioux Narrows. Started way back in 1996 by local bass anglers Chris Bell and Mel Geisbrecht, this event has stood the test of time and is sold-out with a full field of 120 boats year after year. Early […]
After the great weather we’ve had over the past week here in Sunset Country, it’s tough to even begin thinking about the upcoming hunting season. However, we all know that a change in the weather is coming soon and before long, some of us will be hanging up the fishing […]
The 11th-annual International Falls Bass Championship took place this past weekend and it was the father-son team of Travis and Jace Peterson who bested the full 60-team field after two days of fishing on the Rainy River and the U.S. side of Rainy Lake. Since the second year of this […]
After chasing bass for much of the summer, it was nice to change things up over the past week and spend some time fishing for some of the other species we have available to us across Sunset Country. Without any bass tournaments on the schedule, I was able to fit […]
When most folks think of all the great fisheries that we have here in Northwestern Ontario, it’s the big lakes that usually come to mind first. Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, and Lac Seul all are great bodies of water with a variety of great fishing opportunities. Of course, […]
The 28th-annual Kenora Bass International will go down as one of the more memorable in tournament history thanks to some new records being set over the weekend. Tournament champions, Jon O’Connor and Byron Sharp, Winnipeg residents who grew up in Northwestern Ontario, absolutely smoked the rest of the field with […]
The 21st-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship took place this past weekend on Rainy Lake and at the end of three days of fishing, Minnesota brothers Scott and Steve Sandberg emerged as the new champs. After a variety of weather moved through the area in the days leading up to […]
The bass tournament season is in full swing across Sunset Country this weekend with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship taking place on Rainy Lake and the Bronzeback Classic going on at Lake of the Woods. The FFCBC is one of the highlights of the year for me—an event that […]
It was another very fun weekend for my wife, August, and I down in the Fort Frances district at the 15th-annual Lake Despair “Castin’ for Cash” bass tournament. Lake Despair is located about 25 kilometers north of Devlin and connected to a chain of lakes that also includes Footprint and […]
The first-annual Kenora Walleye Open took place on Lake of the Woods this past weekend. Some 113 teams showed up for the tournament—the first open walleye tournament of its kind on the Canadian side of the lake. The field consisted of local anglers and those visiting from out of the […]
