After rolling through December with some nice, mild weather, we have been welcomed into the New Year with some real Canadian winter temperatures. It’s been so cold over the past few days that I’ve been getting flashbacks to the “polar vortex” we experienced last year. Fortunately, the long-range forecast is […]
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Since I was a little kid, there always has been one day that I look forward to fishing more than any other in the winter and that is Jan. 1—and most ice anglers probably would say the same thing. This is the annual opening day for lake trout season, which […]
Last week, I wrote about my annual late-season moose hunt I take with my friends. Every year I take off for five-seven days and stay in a cabin with my friends. This year, my wife, August, decided she would take her own hunting trip at the same time and hit […]
The big game hunting season in Northwestern Ontario wrapped up Monday (Dec. 15). As has been a tradition for a group of my friends and I for the past several years, we headed north to the Red Lake area to spend the last week of the season moose hunting. Typically, […]
Since 2005, I’ve spent the first weekend in December down in Minnesota at the annual St. Paul Ice Fishing Show. It is a big ice-fishing event held at the Xcel Energy Center, the same place the Minnesota Wild play, in a large event centre next to the arena. It’s a […]
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to get to use my deer tag on a small eight-point buck not too far from my house. The beauty of living out-of-town like we do is that we pretty much can step out the door of our house and start […]
I always get pretty good notice of when the holiday season is approaching because the wives and girlfriends of my fishing friends start sending me messages asking for ideas of what they should get their guys for Christmas. Sometimes this is an easy one for me to answer, especially if […]
Around the Kenora area, any talk of moose these days is from those who were avid hunters prior to the 2000s. Once home to a healthy moose population, Wildlife Management Units 6 and 7B in the Kenora area are now just barely hanging on with a few animals left. Hunters […]
Now that winter finally is starting to bare its teeth, lakes are beginning to freeze up and another open-water fishing season is coming to an end for us here in Sunset Country. After a terrible spring, weather wise, the summer was okay while the fall actually was pretty good despite […]
It looks like our weather finally is starting to get a little bit more winter-like this week after quite a few nice days over the past month. Earlier in the week, I got out on Lake of the Woods to film my final TV show of the season and we […]
Across Northwestern Ontario, it’s well-known amongst area anglers that there are stocked trout lakes available to anyone interested in catching these pretty fish. Brook trout, rainbow trout, and splake (a cross between brook and lake trout) are not native to our region, but these stocked populations give anglers a chance […]
Since the bass tournament season ended a few weeks ago, I’ve had the chance to get out on the water on some of the nice days we’ve had of late. The fishing has been good, in general, especially for crappies. There have been a few good outings for walleye and […]
