Lake Winnipeg ice fishing guide Jason Hamilton shows off a chunky 25-inch "greenback" walleye Monday afternoon. Hamilton says the big lake's rich forage base helps walleyes achieve girths not ...

Desrosiers says winter fishing pressure on the big lake has increased "exponentially," compared with what he saw while checking anglers five years ago. Holly Chow, Winnipeg, fishes in the foreground.

Feb. 10—ON LAKE WINNIPEG, Manitoba — We'd barely gotten set up, and I didn't even have a line in the water yet, when Jim Stinson hooked up on the kind of fish that draws anglers to Lake ...

I spent only one day fishing Lake Winnipeg this winter and have gotten my fix of the big lake vicariously through the experiences of others.If there's a common theme, it's the scarcity of larger ...

Scott Forbes is a professor of biology at the University of Winnipeg who has been following changes in Lake Winnipeg's walleye population, the "greenbacks" that attract ice fishing enthusiasts ...

Angling frontier Like many other anglers, Chow started fishing Lake Winnipeg only two winters ago, but there's little doubt it's made a big impression.

Although ice fishing season has come and gone, here’s a spot you might want to target next winter. Late ice on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, must be on every ice angler’s bucket list! I ...

Apr. 8—WINNIPEG — Anglers fishing Manitoba this summer will see a few changes under new regulations that took effect Saturday, April 1. For American anglers, perhaps the biggest change ...

Several provincial fishing groups say Lake Winnipeg is in danger of losing several of its key fish species if drastic action isn't taken.

The fishing season may be over in most of Canada, but out on Lake Winnipeg, serious pickerel fishing is under way. Fishermen such as Chris Kristjanson are setting their gillnets under several feet ...

More than 50 people from Manitoba's fishing industry met with Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh with ideas on how to keep Lake Winnipeg's harbours accessible while the province tries to ...

A first-time ice fisherman was stuck on Lake Winnipeg for almost five hours in the blizzard-like conditions on Sunday — a problem caused by inexperience and lack of preparation, his rescuer says.