Mild Weather Cuts Ice Fishing Season Short in Manitoba

Anglers are being encouraged to remove their fishing shacks from lakes and rivers in Manitoba. The province advised Thursday that all shacks should be removed from the ice in southern and central Manitoba as soon as possible, as long as it’s safe to do so. Normally shacks can remain until March 31, but mild temperatures [...]

Lack of ice on Maine waters hurting bait and tackle sellers

With opening day of Maine’s ice-fishing season on most waters a mere two weeks away, Dylan Larose and Dennis Daniel were keeping close tabs on temperatures Saturday. Larose is a bait retailer who manages Dag’s Bait Shop for his father, Marcel, in Auburn. Daniel owns Ellis Pond Variety in Roxbury. Normally, both would be very [...]

Fishing: More to ice than the cold

You go to the bait store for minnows, hit the lake and drive on a plowed road, unload your gear and walk into a fish house with holes drilled and the heat on. This scenario plays out on a daily basis across the state during the winter as fishing enthusiasts utilize services provided by resorts, [...]

Anglers must ‘step up to the plate’

A program designed to clean up the banks of the Red River could potentially run all winter if Operation Cleanup gets its way. Operation Cleanup, which runs from May to the end of October each year, hoists around 40,000 pounds of garbage from the banks of the Red River annually. Program founder Rob Belanger, who [...]

Groundfish Ice Fishing on the Saguenay River

QUEBEC CITY – Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) announces that the groundfish ice fishing season on the Saguenay River will open on January 21, 2012, and close on March 4, 2012. For the safety of those participating in ice fishing, DFO emphasizes that access to fishing sites is conditional on ice thickness in accordance with [...]

Groundfish Ice Fishing on the Saguenay River

QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC–(Marketwire – Nov. 1, 2011) – Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) announces that the groundfish ice fishing season on the Saguenay River will open on January 21, 2012, and close on March 4, 2012. For the safety of those participating in ice fishing, DFO emphasizes that access to fishing sites is conditional on [...]

Early Season Ice Fishing

Are you utilizing every available strategy to ensure a successful trip that 1st time out on the ice this season? Keeping your summer fishing habits sharp will enable you to be more successful this winter season. Here are a variety of tips and tactics designed to help you have a more successful ice fishing season [...]

Going ice fishing on Lake Simcoe

Come summer or winter, the best place for a good catch of bass, pike, walleye, whitefish, and lake trout is the ‘Ice Fishing Capital of Canada’, Lake Simcoe. Located on Cooks Bay in the town of Keswick, a mere 45 minutes north from Toronto, Lake Simcoe is where anglers head during the winter ice fishing [...]

Groundfish Ice Fishing Opens January 9, 2010 On The Canadian Saguenay

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Quebec Region, announces that the groundfish ice fishing season on the Saguenay River will open on January 9th, 2010, and close on March 12th, 2010. In accordance with the current regulations and scientific advice, each person is allowed to catch a maximum of 5 groundfish per day of any type, [...]

Canadian Fishing Lodges

Here we present to you a lot of information about the Canadian Fishing Lodges. This shall be of great help incase you are planning a vacation and want to spend sometime in these famous Canadian fishing Lodges. A Canadian fishing adventure is all about being in the lap of nature. You are in one of [...]

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