Dear Gord,I read your ice fishing story in the latest Outdoor Canada (“8 top secrets revealed,” Winter 2012) and I have to ask: What is the optimum size you should use for a Rattlin' Rap to charm those walleye through the ice?Brock Kramble
First a small but important correction: We've found...
One of the many issues of concern for the fishing and hunting community is recruitment, or, more specifically, the greying of our ranks. In short, we are continually striving to bring new anglers and hunters, particularly youth, into the fold. And more and more, the outdoors...
Between the rugged Okanagan Highlands on the west and the snow-capped Monashees to the east, the Boundary Forest District is a patchwork of forests and clearcuts. It is rumpled like an unmade bed and stitched with roads that cut one into the other, headers joining headers and eventually turning into...
On September 11, 2001, while most Canadians were glued to their television sets, transfixed by the unfolding horrors in New York and Washington, I was merrily trolling for salmon on Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay. Not that I didn’t give a darn about the carnage south of the border, mind you.
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At the best of times, wading fast-flowing streams is a risky undertaking and one that can turn deadly in the flash of an eye. We’ve all waded into heavy flows up to our elbows to free our lines from around a mid-river snag, taken just one more drop off the...
Awesome. Sweet. Dude.
Those are the three new words my Dad says he learned during our four days of fishing at northern Saskatchewan’s Milton Lake Lodge. That’s hardly surprising, given we were hanging with Nick Pujic, the hip young principal of Fly Max Films and Fly Nation TV (think surfer culture...
Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there. For my pop and I, today was another great day on the water at Milton Lake Lodge, especially weather-wise: sunny, with some afternoon cloud, and temps in the low 20s. We spent the morning in the river channel north of camp...
I’m all for fishing blind, casting into the unknown, tossing up against likely looking surface structure (weeds, boulder tops, stumps and so on) when I can’t otherwise see below the surface thanks to overcast skies. But when the sun is lighting up the world below the skinny water where spring...
My dad, Bud Walsh, and I arrived late yesterday afternoon at northern Saskatchewan’s Milton Lake Lodge. His first impression? “Geez it’s a long way to come!” Laugh. Too true, though: an Air Canada strike-harried flight from Toronto to Saskatoon; one or two too many pints while cooling our heels in...
We’re going to need a bigger trophy wall at the Outdoor Canada offices! Still riding high from our big wins at the annual Canadian Society of Magazine Editors awards, we brought home even more hardware Friday night.
This time our contributors earned silver and gold, along with three honourable mentions, at...