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…
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…
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.…
Another great year at Jimmy’s Double D Fishing Trip, version VI. This year the trip moved north to the shores of Lake Nipissing with a 5 day, 4 night stay for 22 participants at Nipissing Lodge, a short boat ride from Wade’s Landing. As always, the food, accommodations and fellowship…
My son and I take karate lessons at a local dojo. At the beginning and end of each class we bow in and out and say our word “courtesy”. It’s a reminder to the students that courtesy, defined by Webster as “polite behavior that shows respect for other people”, is…
I must say it felt pretty good to win our first tournament – the check and prize for big fish didn’t hurt either. Owen and I had a great day today catching 15 pike in total. Owen was crushing them all day on the new Rapala Ghost Shiner Shadow Rap.…
This summer my son, Owen, and I had the great pleasure of spending a week at Ken and Bev Byberg’s Island 10 Fishing Retreat on Lady Evelyn Lake, in northern Ontario. This boat in or fly in 10 cottage island resort has access to a large area of water including…
Great fishing trips can still be great even if the fish aren’t in a co-operative mode. This was the case this year as we hit Balsam Lake (Kawartha Lakes, Ontario) for spring walleye fishing that unfortunately happened to coincide with that inopportune post-spawn transition time. While walleye fishing was slow,…
Whenever I take the short trip from my home here in London to various spots on the Thames River, Ontario, I always bring along a variety of baits and lures. Invariably I end up fishing, a least for a short period of time, for something other than what I had…
