Ice Fishing Safety Tips

Attach a long cord to your sled. Not only does this make the sled easier to pull but should someone fall through the ice you can push the sled to them holding onto the line. Carry two picks – spikes protruding from wooden hand holds – to help pull your way out if you should [...]

Ice Fishing Pike

Oxygen equals fish… Too often while ice fishing pike, anglers head to the same location they had success in the spring and summer. While the pike may be at these locations for part of the winter, they most likely won’t be there for long. Pike are often on the move during the winter months as [...]

Check Hooks and Line for Damage When Fishing

Perhaps the most common error anglers mistake is to use old, weak line. “Old” is a relative term. The line you used just yesterday may already be badly worn, particularly if your rod guides are scored and rough, if you’ve been casting among weeds or rocks that abrade the line, or if you’ve stretched the [...]

Ongoing Research on Lake Winnipeg

The Manitoba government on Monday released a report looking at the health of Lake Winnipeg that is to serve as a guide to clean up the province’s largest lake. The report, by Manitoba Water Stewardship and Environment Canada, looks at the current and ongoing research on Lake Winnipeg including water quality, water levels, algae growth [...]

Ice Fishing Tips

Things to Take on Your Trip: Minimum You Should Take: Fishing rods, DUH!!! Reels-  Micro-spinning reel Line- 4-8 lb test ice-line, use 1 size smaller than what you would use in summer Bait:  check local regulations for what you can use A 5 gallon bucket to sit on or to transport your catch home Hand [...]

Manitoba Fishing Vacation Rentals

If уου аrе serious аbουt fishing, tһеח уου һаνе tο experience fishing lodgings. Manitoba fishing lodgings offer fishing 24 hours a day, a trip уου wіƖƖ never forget. Manitoba Fishing Lodgings Manitoba іѕ a province tһаt іѕ located іח tһе middle οf Canada, north οf tһе Midwestern United States. Tһе name Manitoba іѕ аח Anglicized [...]

The “Ice Fishing Capital of Canada”- in our own backyard!: Ice Fishing Lake Manitoba Narrows

What do you reckon of when you hear the words “Ice Fishing”? For many people ice fishing  brings to mind a winter pursuit enjoyed by those in cottage country far away from the huge city.  I thought the same, until yesterday when I had the chance to learn more about an ice fishing festival in our [...]

Ice fisher recounts tragic trip

A Manitoba man is struggling to deal with the death of his friend and fishing partner, with whom be pleaded not to leave their stranded snow machine during a weekend blizzard. Patrick West, 64, and Blaine Starr, 18, had been ice fishing on Lake Manitoba on Friday when their Bombardier snow machine got stuck. West [...]

Bracing for the inevitable water overflow Assiniboine River property owners waiting, worrying

LAKE OF THE PRAIRIES, Man. — Over the past two months, the province has allowed water to spill out of this artificial reservoir on the Assiniboine River to create room for a flood of snowmelt expected within weeks. Better known to locals as the Shellmouth Reservoir, this 56-kilometre-long lake near the Saskatchewan border is one [...]

License Exemptions

The following people may angle without a license: Any person under the age of 16 who has permanently resided in Manitoba for at least six months. Any Canadian resident or nonresident under the age of 16. The person must fish with a license holder, or someone exempt from holding a license, and their catch must [...]

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