Lake Manitoba Narrows Walleye Northern Pike Ice Fishing
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 [...]
When it comes to ice fishing, the organizers of the Walleye Warrior 24 hour marathon go all out as a way of raising funds for Cancer Care Manitoba – Kids Fishing for a Cure and this past weekend on the frozen Red River, the Walleye Warrior Marathon raised $ 11,000 for Cancer Care Manitoba. For [...]
WINNIPEG — The Rural Municipality of St. Clements is mounting a campaign to have the province ban ice-fishing shacks from the Red River in a bid to end the mess left behind each spring. In a letter to Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick, the rural municipality north of Winnipeg says it’s seeking support from the [...]
WINNIPEG – The Rural Municipality of St. Clements is mounting a campaign to have the province ban ice-fishing shacks from the Red River in a bid to end the mess left behind each spring. In a letter to Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick, the rural municipality north of Winnipeg said it’s seeking support from the [...]
Manitoba Conservation officials seized 11 ice fishing shacks from the Red River on Wednesday morning. It’s part of a plan to help keep the river clean once spring arrives, officials say. Every ice shack must have a name, address and phone number written on it so conservation officials can identify the owner if they have [...]
MANITOBA Conservation has landed the big one — a dozen ice-fishing huts on the Red River without owner identification. André Desrosiers, a natural resource officer based in Selkirk, said that after more than eight years of trying to persuade ice fishers to legibly scrawl their names and addresses near the door of their ice huts, [...]
Ice Fishermen have been getting the message since Manitoba Conservation confiscated 12 ice fishing shacks from the Red River north of Selkirk last weekend because there were no names or contact information on them.. Conservation officer Andre Desrosiers told Let’s talk Fishin on CJOB Wednesday night all the shacks they’ve checked this week have been [...]
Manitoba Conservation is hauling in some big catches from the Red River. Since last Friday, the department has seized 12 ice-fishing shacks that don’t carry their owner’s name and address. The crackdown comes after several huts spilled into the river after they were left abandoned on the ice last spring. The Manitoba Ice Fishing Association [...]
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 [...]
