Northern Trails

If you live in northwestern Ontario and like to angle in open water, you have to accept the season is short. For six months of...

Bear hunting is not for everyone. And for many years, it was not for me. Some of that had to do with a lack of...

Due to the passage of time, I am not 100 percent sure when my first downrigging experience occurred. It was certainly several decades ago, likely...

There is something very satisfying about sharing a successful fishing adventure that ends with a huge fish. However, when I think back over 50 years...

Growing up in northern Ontario, bugs were always part of the furniture. You could not go fishing or camping without the very strong possibility of...

When I was a kid, Portage Creek, located east of Thunder Bay, on the Sibley Peninsula, was a well-known steelhead fishery. I caught one of...

I can’t recall when Ray Dupuis Sr. and I first crossed paths, but I do know it was at least three decades ago. I have...

Fishing and lead sinkers have gone together for as long as I can remember. In fact, I’m officially old enough to remember a time when...