200 LAKERS WITH MORNING COFFEE.

200 LAKERS WITH MORNING COFFEE.

The start of summer came in like a derecho, hard, fast and heading straight at me. Bunch of fishing all over, travel, a cottage rental, reunion thingy, I was a busy boy for weeks! And yet, this different little diddy of a story kinda blew on in at the tail end of all...
OTTAWA RIVER GAR. FOR THE RECORD.

OTTAWA RIVER GAR. FOR THE RECORD.

The Ottawa River is home to Canada’s biggest and baddest longnose gar. Look through the OFAH online registry and you will see the history of claimed fish dating back to 1994, when a first gar was brought to the scale. That fish, and every one of ’em since,...
NIPIGON LONG RANGERS.

NIPIGON LONG RANGERS.

HUNGRY FOR IT! Not a vehicle on the road from home to New Liskeard, total highway Deadsville out there. Bren was sitting straight, perfect postured as always in the passenger seat, subjecting me much of the drive to some rather raunch and dusty playlist tunes. For the...
SPRING TROUT ANGLING ADDICTION.

SPRING TROUT ANGLING ADDICTION.

When the red and white bobber would drop it was like the whole world would stop just for that moment. Everything else going on around, others talking, birds chirping, traffic in the distance, it wasn’t there anymore. The only thing present was me, a fishing rod and...
BUCKETLOADS OF CRAPPIE TIMES.

BUCKETLOADS OF CRAPPIE TIMES.

Remember some years ago when living in the north how I could argue with anyone that the best tasting fish we have in Ontario is the walleye. Of course, that was simply a naive sentiment considering I had never eaten crappie before. We’re a fortunate part of the...