The third annual Manitoba High School Ice Fishing Championship brought hundreds of students from across the province onto the ...

ON LAKE WINNIPEG, Man. -- Jason Hamilton had just spent the day drilling through about 200 feet of ice and admitted he was ready to pop an Advil or three. Fair trade, that, Hamilton said, because the ...

SOMEWHERE ON LAKE WINNIPEG, Man. -- 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 ...

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 Winnipeg in ...

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 north ...

Anyone who's ever fished Lake Winnipeg through the ice knows how challenging and intimidating it can be for the do-it-yourself angler, especially novices to the big lake. Few lakes within easy driving ...

The third annual Manitoba High School Ice Fishing Championship is set for March 10 at Balsam Bay on Lake Winnipeg, drawing close to 1,500 student anglers from more than 80 schools, organisers say.

A Manitoba fishing guide who lives on Lake Winnipeg in the winter says he often has to rescue unprepared and inexperienced fishers who become stranded on the ice ...

Hundreds of students gathered on the ice of Balsam Bay during the third annual Manitoba High School Ice Fishing Championship.