Lake Manitoba Narrows Walleye Northern Pike Ice Fishing
On April 2nd, 2010, ice mountains were roaring up the shores of the Lake Winnipeg threatening to destroy cottages and homes situated on its banks. This year fishers were urged to remove ice-fishing shacks early, by March 15th, from Lake Winnipeg and the Red River Basin by Water Stewardship so they didn’t sink. This may [...]
Like something out of science fiction, a deadly, alien fish virus is set to invade Quebec waterways, threatening the province’s multi-billion-dollar recreational fishing industry. The highly contagious and adaptable virus, viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), was first identified in the 1950s in farmed fish in Europe. By 2005, it had found its way into the Great [...]
St. Clements Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick is asking the Manitoba government to ban throughout the province the construction of ice-fishing shacks on Red River. Melnick wants to prohibit the shacks because of the debris left behind by the owners of the ice-fishing shelters. Melnick is asking officials of other Manitoba areas such as St. [...]
SOMEWHERE ON LAKE WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Immersed in a shroud of fog and bouncing across the icy surface of a lake that now was covered with nearly a foot of water and slush, it occurred to me that someone who’d never icefished might find this whole experience a bit unsettling. It was hard to tell [...]
Want to try your hand at ice fishing this year but need some answers? Many people I talk to over the course of year ask me what I do in the winter time. Ice fish of course, I tell them. Some give a look of amazement like that could possibly be fun! Not only is [...]
Want to try your hand at ice fishing this year but need some answers? Many people I talk to over the course of year ask me what I do in the winter time. Ice fish of course, I tell them. Some give a look of amazement like that could possibly be fun! Not only is [...]
