Ice fishing: How to find fish under the ice

If you want to find fish under the ice, electronic magic is not necessarily the only answer. A fish detector might just tell you how many fish are “not” there, but will not tell you where to find them. It might show you how many fish are ignoring your bait, but will not tell you [...]

Northwest Division Regulations

General Closure: May 1 to and including May 21. Season opens May 22 Barbless hooks must be used. From April 1 to and including April 30 and from May 22 to and including May 31, the walleye limit is 4. No live bait fish allowed. All lake trout over 65 cm must be released. All [...]

Dip Netting and Seining Restrictions

General regulations on dip netting and seining can be found on earlier post. No dip netting or seining is allowed in any stocked trout waters. In Nopiming and Whiteshell Provincial Parks, and the Rennie River near Rennie, dip netting and seining for suckers and all species other than bait fish are prohibited year round. Some [...]

Southern Division Regulations

General Closure: April 1 to and including May 14. Season opens May 15. Barbless hooks must be used. Use of live bait fish is allowed in some areas. All lake trout must be released between September 15 and October 15. All lake trout over 65 cm must be released. http://www.icefishinglakemanitobanarrows.com/ Boonstraonehour Air Quality’s One Hour [...]

Bait

Night crawlers and earthworms may be used as bait in all Fishing Divisions in Manitoba. They may be imported to Manitoba in a sterile medium such as paper mulch, but not in soil. Leeches, frogs and salamanders (water dogs) may also be used as bait in all Divisions. However, they may not be imported. Possession [...]

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