Nominations for the 33rd annual National Magazine Awards were announced last night at a special event in Montreal, and once again Outdoor Canada is up for several honours. In all, the magazine and its contributors earn five nominations.
Leading the pack with two nominations apiece are Fishing Editor...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I was just preparing to finalize an edit on a guest opinion column by Len Rich when I heard the news early yesterday: Len had passed away in the wee hours of Monday, finally succumbing at age 71 to pancreatic cancer. Now, I knew Len was sick, but...
A Manitoba angler lands a giant, 11-foot two-inch white sturgeon
What a trip to the Broadback River in northern Quebec. We were having so much fun, in fact, we decided to stay an extra two days. Okay, it wasn’t really our idea: the Turbo Otter failed to show up at the pick-up spot at the appointed time...
Friends, fun and fishing for smallmouth bass fishing in Quebec’s world-famous La Réserve Beauchêne
The fishing tradition continues! Editor Patrick Walsh returns to Quebec's Beauchêne wilderness