The Hardwater Code: A Guide to Ice Fishing Etiquette

Etiquette: the customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group. Oxford All sports and pastimes come with their own set of unwritten rules. In golf, talking in backswings and stepping on lines is perhaps the best way to lose future invitations. In baseball, no player would dream […]

Fish’n Canada’s Guide to Ice Safety

Ice season has finally arrived and anglers all over the country are already getting out onto the hardwater. Though the hardwater is looked forward to by anglers, first-responders can often come to dread this season as too-eager anglers flock to unsafe ice and inevitably fall through – putting all those involved in serious danger. To […]

How To Use A Flasher For Ice Fishing

Many anglers prefer ice fishing because it’s easier to reel in a high volume of fish by dropping your lure directly onto a pile of fish rather than trolling around an entire lake looking for them. However, to be successful when you plunk yourself down next to an ice hole, you need to know how […]

How Fishing Sonars Work

Back in the day, before you got in your boat, you spoke to the locals to get an idea of where to go—what’s working, what’s not, etc. And that’s what you’d get: an idea. Well, folks, the times, they are a-changin’! With today’s technology, those ideas become reality. We’re talking about down-scan and side-scan multi-beam […]

Ice Fishing with the Boys

I took my sons Hunter and Cole out for their first-ever ice fishing trip up to Lake Joseph in the Muskokas. We met up with Captain John Blanchard on a cold windy day but luckily John had a perfectly heated hut so the boys didn’t freeze. There was no way I was going to let […]