I get a little spoiled because I have the below just over an hour away. No walleye (although they might survive here), but rainbow trout and nice size bluegill, even the bass and catfish taste great:
Posted on 03/01/2024 5:09:51 PM PST by Paul R.
Is anyone familiar with the area around Winnipeg, Canada, and bank access fishing opportunities in the immediate area? I think I'd be mainly after walleye - just good size to eat, as I'm not after a trophy, just a meal or two! This outing would only be a day trip from where we'd be staying in Winnipeg, so, a location not over 1 hr. from Winnipeg itself is much preferred...
The southern end of Lake Winnipeg itself would seem to be the obvious choice, but, it apparently has had some pollution and algae problems. There are a couple parks along the river flowing through Winnipeg that might be ok, tho' I don't know about crowding and how much bank access there really is.
Ideas or experiences welcome!
Thanks!
YouTube is a great resource for finding fishing videos for the areas and/or types of fish you are targeting.
It’s been over 50 years since I was in Canada as a teen, on fishing trips with my Dad and Grandpa, but I still remember how good the walleye tasted out of the lakes in Central Ontario. I’m thinking they should be just as good a little further west, if out of clean water, and since we are gonna be there...
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Yeah, I saw a vid taken in one of the parks. I probably should try doing searches a few different ways... Starting off with a waterbody name usually helps, but, there are quite a few of those (waterbodies.) I wish I had a full week just to explore!
You might try Whiteshell Provincial Park — it’s on the Ontario border, less than an hour and a half east of Winnipeg. It’s a nice area because you’re in the wooded boreal shield zone instead of the open prairie closer to Winnipeg.
Just about any lake in Canada should be loaded with walleyes. Best fish to eat there is!
We left home the day after school let out in June...and I could never figure out why they didn't celebrate the 4th of July.
Only one person in Town spoke English....
Don't know where Winnipeg is...no matter...it was all about the Walleye.
I get a little spoiled because I have the below just over an hour away. No walleye (although they might survive here), but rainbow trout and nice size bluegill, even the bass and catfish taste great:
Those trips when I was a kid...
Tell the train where to stop (a little cleared spot with a little extra gravel). A short hike, get in a boat and cross Oba Lake to our cabin. Refrigeration was ice, lots of it, the owners had buried the previous winter. Hey, isn’t somebody supposed to teach me how to swim B4 pushing me off the dock? (Our pool at home wasn’t even 4 ft. deep!
Or our last fishing trip, fly into Granite Hill Lake in a seaplane. Great stuff when you are only 12 y/o!
And dang, those walleyes tasted great!
Hahahaha!
Ah yes, life’s finest moments...jigging with leeches for walleyes on a northwoods lake while enjoying a fine cigar! Almost too much joy for a body to bear! We are forever “little boys” in our core. Tight lines mate!
Haha - Our last trip was “just” a motor tour around Lake Superior. Grandpa wasn’t getting around (walking) so well, by then, so spots we walked very far to, Gramps stayed in the car. Still, it was pretty cool & lots of memories! I don’t recall the name of the lake we camped at one night: It was really chilly - maybe my brain froze! But my brother and I went wading anyway, and it only took a minute for a leach to glom onto my foot. He caught a couple more B4 they could attach to him. I was thinking, “Dad, why didn’t we bring our fishing gear?”!
Porcupine mountains in the UP?
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