Here are the best lakes in Alberta for ice fishing this season: Calling Lake, 55 km north of Athabasca on SH 813, has a simple rule: get up early (or stay late) if you want to catch the walleye bite. I took a friend to Calling for his first-ever go at...

It's almost ice fishing season in Saskatchewan! Check out these local waters: Lake Diefenbaker, located southwest of Saskatoon and northwest of Regina, is a sprawling reservoir was created as an impoundment of the South Saskatchewan River by the Qu’...

It's almost ice fishing season! Check out Manitoba's top ice fishing hot spots: For hardwater northern pike fishing, head to Big Whiteshell Lake in Manitoba’s Whiteshell Provincial Park, about 130 km east of Winnipeg on Highway 1. Access to this lak...

Manitoba's Best Fishing Hot Spots: Within a two-hour drive of Winnipeg, almost every freshwater fish species swimming in Manitoba’s waters is available to the open-water angler. 1. Right at the top of the list of locations is the mighty Red River t...

Use these tactics to piece together the combination that’ll get inactive walleye to strike. It’s happens to most anglers. We find walleye but they reject lures like snobby gourmets at a roadside chip stand. However, even when fish are fickle, they...

Fishing hot spot guide: With so many excellent lakes and rivers to choose from, Saskatchewan offers the resident and visiting angler alike an almost bewildering selection of world class waters. 1. Churchill River For sheer numbers of healthy, scrappy...

World Record Walleye Caught in Saskatchewan! On January 5, 2011, Tim Geni of Wilcox Saskatchewan caught and released a 33-3/4-inch (86-cm) walleye with a robust 19-3/8-inch girth at Last Mountain Lake. Up to that point, the current catch and release r...

Well, contrary to the belief of many Western Canadians, you can ice fish in BC. And with only a week left in the season (in most places), it's time to dispel the myth once and for all with the Top Five ice fishing locations in BC:

When fly fishing for pike, your first order of business is to equip yourself with the right arsenal. An eight or nine-weight fly rod and lightweight large-arbour reel is the way to go. As far as lines go, this will vary slightly depending on season. I...