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’ve been trying to plan a date for our yearly trip down to the mouth of the Grand River for channel catfish. As I’ve mentioned before, timing rivers for a successful trip can be problematic, especially without the luxury of a lot of free time during our busy lives. This…
Although my multi-day tournament experience is limited, I’ve been reading a fair bit on what the pros have to say about fish management and other strategies that I want to get down in words for future use. Single day events are somewhat easier in this regard – go out and…
With the bass tournament season starting soon I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading and thinking about tournament strategies. While I’m certainly no expert and I have much to learn, it’s been pretty obvious that I’ve done a lot better in tournaments where I’ve been able to have plans…
Nine years ago, while visiting the Hawaiian island of Kauai, my wife, Western University Earth Sciences Professor Patricia Corcoran, and I noticed an abundance of plastic debris on some of the beaches we visited. In particular, the beaches on the east side of the island contained plastic debris ranging in…
I’ve been doing some background research on making artificial fish habitat as part of our conservation activities for our local B.A.S.S. club (Forest City Bassmasters). While sifting through some of the scientific literature I came across S.J. Cooke and D.P. Philip’s (eds.) book entitled “Centrarchid Fishes: Diversity, Biology, and Conservation.”[1]…
On a recent B.A.S.S. club tournament on Fanshawe Lake I had one of those outings where everything seemed to work out – resulting in both a win and big fish cheques. I had fished a tournament on this lake earlier in the month to a fourth place finish with a…
A recent outing emphasized the value of paying attention to factors that indicate fish location. One of the best indicators is actually seeing where their food is. We were spotting large schools of baitfish at the surface of the water and with these schools we found our largest concentration of…
A recent post from FLW Fishing on the baits used by the top 10 finishers at Lake Seminole showed some interesting trends… 1. Winner Clint Brown – Bass Pro Shops buzzbait, Okeechobee craw-colored Bruiser Baits Intruder,Dirty Jigs swimjig (shad pattern) 2. Ken Ellis – whacky-rigged watermelon red-colored Zoom Trick Worm…
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.…
