With our CNIB Guide Dog certification achieved, and my confidence in Lewis’s ability to guide me well established, it was time to contemplate where I could travel with Lewis to put our partnership to the ultimate test. He was already with me twice weekly aboard my fishing boat as my tournament schedule had us competing […]
Robert Hooton, author of Days of Rivers Past and a 37-year career Steelhead biologist, is Lawrence Gunther’s guest on Blue Fish Radio Show
After months of organizing outdoor adventures for CNIB Guide Dog trainees, I was more than just a bit anxious to run off with my new guide dog Lewis and get my independence back. But, being assigned a new guide dog meant that this was only the end of phase one. I still had to be […]
After a half-year of being the “big brother†to a pack of seven CNIB guide dog trainees and being part of their formation and training as reliable guide dogs, it was finally time for me to put my “blind guy†hat back on. I needed a guide dog. It was my hope that one of […]
The Great Lakes Fisheries are in transition and anglers need to understand why, so I’m continuing to invite Great Lakes Fisheries experts as guests On The Blue Fish Radio Show.
Photo of Lawrence Gunther holding a nice late fall Walleye As a professional competitive angler and having competed in over 150 tournaments for all manner of fish species, I know my strength and it’s fishing vertically. Most people would automatically think of jigs, as did I for decades, but over the past 15 years I’ve […]
Fishing with jigs is quite possibly one of the oldest forms of fishing using artificial baits.
My wife Anne and I enjoy taking off in the summer with our travel trailer and exploring Canada and the United States. We spend on average 35 nights a year camping. There are a few campgrounds that we return to annually, like the Cardinal KOA located near-by the St. Lawrence River – a favourite of […]
Dogs love holding things in their mouths. They love to catch and carry things, always with their mouth. It’s for this reason that it’s important to make sure that CNIB guide dog trainees aren’t interested in mouth-damaging devices such as fishing lures. Nothing brings a day’s fishing to an end faster than a dog with […]