Lake Manitoba Narrows Walleye Northern Pike Ice Fishing
The Manitoba government 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 and climate [...]
Last February, fresh off a phenomenal trip to the current version of hog walleye heaven?Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba?Tony Roach could hardly keep himself from jumping out of his Snosuit. “Here we were,” Roach exclaimed, jigging arm twitching randomly, “Standing out in the middle of the ’Winnipeg Wasteland,’ ripping these clunky rattling crankbaits?lures like the Rapala Rippin’ [...]
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 [...]
I cannot think of a better time to be on the ice than March. Most people are getting ready for the open water season, while I and fellow ice heads are searching for the last fishable ice. Sometimes it takes a bit of traveling, such as this case up to Lake Winnipeg in search of [...]
There is something about big water that attracts me. Maybe it’s the challenge of trying to find fish over a large area. Certainly it’s common knowledge that large bodies of water like Lake of the Woods and Lake Winnipeg grow big fish, another part of the equation. Still when you are trying to find fish [...]
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 [...]
High Quality Management Waters in the Southern Division are listed below. All have limits of 4 walleye/sauger, 4 pike and 2 smallmouth bass with the exception of that portion of the Winnipeg River described below in which the limit is 0 for small mouth bass. Echo Lake Shoe Lake Saddle Lake Side Saddle Lake Winnipeg [...]
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 [...]
