Another great year at Jimmy’s Double D Fishing Trip, version X on Lake Nipissing with a 5 day, 4 night stay for 19 participants at Nipissing Lodge, a short boat ride from Wade’s Landing. As always, the food, accommodations and fellowship was excellent. The executive committee and all of the…
Western News Article “Western professor applies research principles to his fishing passion: Avid angler touts science of catching, conserving sport fish“. This article goes into some of the background on my motivation for The Scientific Fisherman blog, my work at Western University and club work with Forest City Bassmasters. 2021…
After too long of a hiatus, we had another great year at Jimmy’s Double D Fishing Trip, version IX on Lake Nipissing with a 5 day, 4 night stay for 19 participants at Nipissing Lodge, a short boat ride from Wade’s Landing. As always, the food, accommodations and fellowship was…
Another great year at Jimmy’s Double D Fishing Trip, version VIII on Lake Nipissing with a 5 day, 4 night stay for 25 participants at Nipissing Lodge, a short boat ride from Wade’s Landing. As always, the food, accommodations and fellowship was excellent. Catch, measure and photograph, and release tournaments…
With over 125 fish brought to the scales and a massive prize table from our sponsors there were lots of smiling Junior and High School Bassmaster members (as well as smiling parents) at our recent Kraemer Concrete MLF Shore Fishing Derby. We are all unbelievably grateful to our hosts, Jim…
Another great year at Jimmy’s Double D Fishing Trip, version VII on Lake Nipissing with a 5 day, 4 night stay for 25 participants at Nipissing Lodge, a short boat ride from Wade’s Landing. As always, the food, accommodations and fellowship was excellent. Catch, measure and photograph, and release tournaments…
In Part 1 of this series we looked at catch-and-release best practices gleaned from Jacob Brownscombe’s recent paper in Fisheries Research(1). In the previous post we went from catching the fish through to documentation. In this post we’ll continue with a look at methods of assessing fish condition and various…
A recent scientific article in the journal Fisheries Research by Jacob Brownscombe et. al.(1) goes through the latest science behind successful catch-and-release best practices. The article entitled “Best practices for catch-and-release recreational fisheries – angling tools and tactics” contains key tactics for releasing fish back into the wild that will…
During the long winter months each year I take a bit of time to do a little tackle organization. Basically, put everything back where it belongs, clean out the dirt and figure out what needs fixing, replacing or replenishing. One of my noted frustrations from last year was the storage…
At the end of this busy summer where it’s been a little too much science and not quite enough fishing, I want to share with you a pretty cool experience I had. Our club was hosting a larger multi-club tournament out of Turkey Point (Long Point Bay) on Lake Erie.…
