Canada’s national bass-fishing team aims to take on the world – Outdoor Canada

September 19, 2024

For what seems like the 1,500th time, Norm Hayman casts a white-skirted buzzbait with impressive accuracy towards a patch of weeds along the shoreline of Ontario’s Lower Buckhorn Lake. As he quickly retrieves the gurgling topwater, the water suddenly explodes behind it. “Damn! He just missed it,” Hayman says, pointing to where the bass appeared. “Quick! Throw your worm out right there and see if you can get him.” With considerably less accuracy, I cast my unweighted wacky rig and wait 10 tense seconds for a hit, but nothing happens. Thankfully, our boat’s livewell is already full with a limit of respectable largemouth and smallmouth bass.

As co-anglers in the 2nd Annual Canada Bass Pro/Am out of the Kawartha region’s Beachwood Resort, Hayman and I are fishing alongside our host, bass pro and fishing guide Joe Ford. The vice-president of the Canadian International Sportfishing Association (CISA), Ford is also one of the event’s key organizers. To be honest, he and Hayman have contributed most of the fish in the boat, so it’s painfully clear—to me, at least—who’s representing the “amateur” in this late-June Pro/Am. Granted, I’ve caught my fair share of bass over the years, but these guys are in a different league altogether.

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