I’m lying on my belly on the ice, peering into the darkening depths. I clip on a 3-inch tube jig and lower it down about 15 feet so I can study its action. I watch the white soft plastic tentacles pulsate through the clear water as I wiggle the rod tip. I see it dart...
If it wasn’t for brook trout I might never have learned to build a quinzee. It was the lure of the square tail that put me in the bush before the sun, and saw me trudging home well after dark. Sometimes with fish, sometimes not, but always with an urge to reach...
Are you experiencing the winter blues and looking forward to the summer months already? Don’t be in such a rush—Northeastern Ontario is home to some of the best outdoor winter activities in the province, including downhill and nordic skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobile...
Finding productive water is one of the most vexing aspects of brook trout fishing. We research, explore and even eaves drop to become enlightened. We search by truck, snowmobile and snowshoe, chasing the dream of icing a brace of robust speckled trout from the snowy...
We’ve had the first sightings of snowfall so we might as well sound the alarm: winter activity season has begun! Northeastern Ontario Tourism ran a contest asking residents to rank their favourite winter activities: from Manitoulin to Moosonee, they listed ice...
