Each year eastern Ontario’s premier tournament Bass fishing organization, Renegade, hosts a pro-am event pairing renegade pros with potential newcomers to tournament Bass fishing. This year’s event took place once again on Mississippi Lake just outside Carlton Place Ontario, and involved 27 teams. I was fortunate to be partnered with Claude Bergeron, proprietor of “Bergeron […]
For decades I’ve been feeling my way along river and lake bottoms using only my hook, line and rod as a sensor. I’m always imagining what it might look like below my boat, but until recently, that’s all I could do. Now that I’m a certified C-level SCUBA diver I can actually get down there […]
Weather for the 24th annual BAIT event seemed promising with a spring that was right on track to deliver up some great fishing. We weren’t disappointed. Piloting my Ranger 619 Fisherman for the event was Scott Campbell, a regular on the local tournament fishing scene.We arrived at the Nangor Resort on the Ottawa River just […]
A friend who recently regained his sight after a lifetime of being blind said sight can be quite perplexing. Seeing an object for the first time offers few clues about its nature, making touching, smelling and tasting crucial to gaining understanding. All intelligent life forms utilize all their senses to explore their world. The difference […]
In my article, “So What Do Fish Hear”, we focussed on how fish hear using their ears. In this article, the focus will be on how they listen through their lateral lines. People take hearing for granted until it stops working, and then they realize just how important a role it plays in almost everything […]
As always, I took part in the Ranger & Stratos Invitational Bass Tournament. The charity fund raiser is organized each year by Orleans Boat World.
Each year eastern Ontario’s premier tournament Bass fishing organization, Renegade, hosts a pro-am event pairing renegade pros with potential newcomers to tournament Bass fishing
Competitions: Publications: Blind Fishing Buddies: As a member of the CNIB Lake Joseph Centre’s Board and the lead on organizing the annual fishing camp for their 96 weekly blind vacationers, the Blind Fishing Boat will have plenty of opportunities to directly reach out to others living with vision loss. Combined with my assisting with organizing […]
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In this, the first in a series of articles about the different senses fish have evolved, we’ll explore what I believe to be the sense fish such as Bass rely on the most, hearing. More specifically, how fish use their sense of hearing to listen for and find pray, or to detect changes to their […]