By this point you’ve likely been over the website top to bottom a number of times. Looking at photos, Google Earth, wondering what you will catch and what the trip will be like. Every spring and summer many anglers choose to head to lodges, outposts, cabins and any other sort of fishing retreat in the remote areas of Canada. Like the weather, upon their return there is a huge variety of stories; some okay, some outstandingly bad and others return having a story of a lifetime. After all, that’s what we are all looking for here, a trip to different…
Author: Jason Hamilton
Jason Hamilton
Jason has worked in the outdoor industry most of his life. His knowledge of wildlife is more than casual. He has a master’s degree from the University of Waterloo in Animal Physiology. He spent seven years working for the Ontario Department of Natural Resources and the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans. His work there primarily involved tagging marine mammals, as in polar bears, whales and walrus. He then became a fishing and hunting guide in Manitoba for a few years before moving to White Fox, Saskatchewan. He currently is the General Manager of Scott Lake Lodge.
Manitoba’s inland sea, Lake Winnipeg, is a world class winter walleye fishery and on the short list for consideration as the top trophy walleye producer out there. The lake’s geography, geology and ecology combine to yield a Greenback factory, producing emerald-green tanks approaching fifteen pounds each hard water season. It’s this lure that draws anglers from the upper Midwest, central Canada and points beyond to try their luck on Lake Winnipeg. Along with photos of magnum walleye caught and released (HINT!) quite often these travelling hard water anglers return home with tales of weather, ice and broken equipment. There is…
Television host Jason Mitchell offers some insight on Fall walleye The advantage of trolling crankbaits for walleye is twofold. You can cover a lot of water and swipe through large areas and you can also trigger fish that might not respond to some slower and subtler presentations. On so many bodies of water, we see a transition that gains intensity as fall transcends into summer where crankbaits seem to trigger more fish especially if you are looking for big fish. Crankbaits are not the answer for every situation but trolling hard baits shine whenever the locations get big. Basins are…
Try your hand at shallow water spring pike! As it does every year, spring creeps across central Canada, slowly but surely, a stronger sun melts ice, creates runoff and water temperatures raise. After a winter on ice chasing fish the change is welcome, a new arsenal of gear is brought out of storage and anglers can start casting. One of the first fisheries of the open water season is shallow water pike. Not only can fishing be had in super skinny water, but you have the chance at GIANT fish. Watching the bow wake of a big northern as it tracks…