Northern Trails

This month, my good editor tasked me with picking out some of my most memorable deer hunts. This is no easy feat. Looking over four decades...

As a young man growing up in Thunder Bay, the pursuit of fish was an all encompassing passion. Brook trout were favoured, but steelhead and...

As the days get longer, and the sun’s warmth melts away the snow, many anglers start thinking about open water. This is only natural, as there...

The northwestern Ontario ice fishing world I grew up in had no ice shacks. It’s fair to say there weren’t even ice fishing tents. If...

One of my most vivid winter childhood memories includes a pair of snowshoes. I’m not sure exactly how old I was, but I was old enough...

Fairly recently, on a cold winter night, my wife was watching television as I tapped away on my laptop in the other room. “Come see...

As I tap out this column, on the first day of January 2014, it is -33 Celsius in Thunder Bay. The wind chill is in...

The lake trout—sometimes called grey trout—is a species seemingly designed by Mother Nature for winter. The colder, snappier and brighter the winter day, the more...