Good day, people! Up in Lake Winnipegosis, here on the fringes of my hometown of Sapotaweyak, we still find ways of keeping busy with our hooks and lines. Every once in a while we have a local fishing derby on the ice and on open water. We often use them for fund raising. As a result, many of our local fishing people do their fishing part-time. Sometimes these guys will fish when there is a derby, when the prizes are right. As you can see from this pic, this guys is real Old School. His gear is a the string that butchers use to wrap meat and his hook is the old reliable red and white Daredevil. As with the rest of us, he didn’t catch anything that day, January 15, 2010.
The ice was 4 1/2 feet thick. The ice augers really had their work cut out for them. Last year we were catching what we call Mariya. Last years derby winner caught a 6 pounder winning First Place with $1000.00. It wasn’t bad day at all for Crazy Larry.
Usually we can catch Walleye, and Pike, if we hit the right spot. The commercial fishermen sometimes get up to 12 pounders. Suckers are ground up to make fish burgers and the sucker heads are boiled as a local delicacy. Very Tasty!
On the map, we are on the northern section of Lake Winnipegosis, on the Mason Bay. Further west on the opposite shore we have a river called the Steeprock River which runs out into the Steeprock Bay. Out there we can catch Brook Trout, along with the Pike, Walleye, Suckers, Carp and Mariya. The Brookies can be caught with Mepps Aglia and Black Fury spinners and pretty well anything else with some shine. I often use my trusty black Rattle Trap. My number two hook is my Rapala Shad Rap. Either one will usually pull in some kind of fish that I can fry up for supper. There is a big fishing derby coming up in The Pas, Manitoba called the Bill Bannock Classic. My son went last year and brought home stories of over 1200 fishermen taking part. If everything works out and I hope join this year.
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