Lake Winnipeg Ice Fishing

If you intend to catch countless walleyes, including an excellent opportunity at seafood over 10 pounds, we advice a winter season ice fishing day at Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba. We first told the storyline with this great walleye fishery previously. Subsequently, we’ve returned on a yearly basis while having caught hundreds and countless walleyes, including a few over 12 weight.

Lake Winnipeg is amongst the biggest freshwater ponds on earth, it works 250 miles from north to south, although the current fishing is in the southern pond basin, only north regarding the Manitoba capital city of Winnipeg. Due to the dimensions and its own vast shallow basin—it mostly varies from 10 to 20 legs deep—many fishermen tend to be puzzled about how to find seafood. We requested In-Fisherman contributor and specialist Winnipeg angler Roger Stearns how he does it.

“whenever we’re starting from scrape our initial techniques are about a mile, ” he states. :”Drill some holes and monitor your electronics while you fish. When we don’t get or mark a fish in 15 minutes we move another mile. Two-hundred-yard moves on a lake like Lake Winnipeg aren't anything. In fact, making tiny techniques while wanting to make initial connection with a school of walleyes is a good option to quickly waste a-day.”

Once they find fish, Stearns stresses the requirement to decide to try look over their attitude. “Say we have been establishing and getting some fish, ” he says, “but only every 3rd fish roughly bites. The fish tend to be near to bottom and don’t go for aggressive lure moves. We possibly may catch 6 fish in 45 minutes and level many others.

“Once the bite really tapers down, a small move is within order—say 40 yards or more. We’re dealing with simple to negative fish which can be simply milling along. They could have only given or they've been waiting to feed when they look for baitfish. At the same time, we'ven’t marked baitfish. We run into this scenario plenty. It frequently takes these fish 3 hours to maneuver 200 yards. To adhere to seafood such as these I usually have my lover move with me, however if we’re in several three or even more, we quite often leave one guy behind as we move. Whenever we enter all of them again and they’re biting much better, the stay-behind man moves to our location. Occasionally, the college reappears beneath the angler which was put aside.”

Now say they find simple fish combined in with hostile seafood. They’re marking fish on bottom and suspended anywhere from 2 to 6 foot off base and.