The family holiday had gone well, no major mishaps to mar a decent week of water sports and fishing. We had said our good-byes to our friends at the lake and headed with the boat back down the narrow wooded road that leads out from the cottages to the Trans Canada Highway east of Kenora, Ontario. Read more...

NIGHTTIME SUMMERTIME WALLEYE

It's the time of the year to do a little prowling around on the lake late in the day as the sun goes down. In summer, as water temperatures rise and water skiers abound on your favourite lake, relax with family and friends during the day and get ready for a little nighttime fishing action after everybody exits stage left. Read more...

COLD FRONT WALLEYE

It wasn't the most pleasant of days to be on the water! The wind was from the east, gusting to sixty kilometres an hour, whipping up the waves on Last Mountain Lake into small mountains.
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PIKE AND CISCOES

Ciscoes were popping up all over the surface of the mirror calm lake, scooping up insects that were struggling to break the surface film. Every once in a while a huge splash would interrupt the calm. Read more...

CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY IN LAC BROCHET

As the plane glided down over the frozen lakes and tundra that surround the northern Manitoba community of Lac Brochet last week, I could see a huge building in the centre of town. Conservation Officer Earl Simmons who was seated beside me on the Skyward flight told me that this was the community's school. Read more...

FISH THE MUD IN EARLY SEASON

As the water slowly warms in our southern lakes and rivers in June, anglers starting to zero in on pre-spawn smallmouth and post spawn walleye. Read more...

FLYING PIKE

It was a cool spring day, the cold water combining with warmer moist surface air to create a foggy mist, shrouding the bay I was fishing in. Out the fog, flooded timber emerged like sentinels guarding the entrance to this back bay. As I eased my Lund Pro V between two branches in the water with my Minn Kota troll motor there was a swirl near shore a short distance away. Read more...

CRANKIN THE CURRENT

For the last three years at this time of year a certain pattern has existed along the Winnipeg River for walleye, bass and pike, not to mention a whole bunch of other rivers across the province were current is a factor. Read More...

Icefishing Articles

TROPHY LAKE TROUT ON ICE

In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the angling season for most species closes then end of March; however in Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba stocked trout and lake trout stay open while in the northwestern section of Manitoba the fishing season doesn't close to May 1st. Read More...

PERCH PARADISE

The Bombardier rumbled onto the ice bouncing and swaying as Jim Price struggled to keep it on course. It was to be our source of transportation this fine January day as we ventured across the frozen, jagged surface of mighty Lake Manitoba. Read More...

WINTER IN THE WHITESHELL

Whiteshell Provincial Park has been a playground for people in the eastern part of Manitoba since the turn of the century and earlier. Read More...

STEPHENFIELD RESEVOIR

There were rumblings through the fishing grapevine of a reservoir in southern Manitoba that was producing some excellent perch and pike fishing. Read More...

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