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[work2fish]

Ontario: Brookies, Lake trout, Salmon, Perch, Walleye, Whitefish- great fishing, not as good as "the old days" but where is. Lots of opportunity, but unfortunately you do have to be careful where and how often you consume the fish, making sure to cut out the belly fat, and from some areas it's just not wise to consume it from heavy metals etc. Lots of fond memories fishing here as a kid with my dad and grandpa.

Northern Manitoba: Excellent tasting and fighting eastern brookies, Arctic Char, Lake Trout, Giant Pike and Walleye, Whitefish, Sturgeon, Goldeye, Drum to name a few. Just about everywhere north of Thompson is a bonanza of fishing opportunities with loads of fish due to low fishing pressure. The cold northern water makes everything great eating/tasting, though there are some concerns of higher mercury content in the flooded Hydro basins.  Downside is the bugs, being the land of 100,000 lakes, it's basically a giant swamp.

Saskatchewan: Excellent Walleye, Pike and Lake trout fishing.  Love the Flinflon area. Some awesome trips to that area staying with friends and in remote cabins, catching wonderful eating scrappy fighting walleye by the hundreds. Nothing beats a good shore lunch of beer battered walleye when camping out in the wild.

Alberta: Pike and Perch, lots of fun as a kid catching 50 perch in an afternoon through the ice as a kid, not so fun to clean except for the few rare 1-2lbers.

NWT close to and above the Arctic circle: Arctic Char, and Lake trout fishing. Truly a wild location, where the fish taste excellent, are easy to catch due to lack of people, and put up a great fight.  Lake trout that run in the rivers and fight like salmon, with red meat to match and a delicate flavor. 

BC: Rainbows, Brookies, Steelhead, Salmon, Halibut, and other groundfish.  Some of my favorite fishing that I'm sure I don't have to describe for anyone that lives here, with my favorite being Steelhead of course

[Fonda Fishing]

--I would have fished many more provinces if they had a Canadian License system. Even though drivers license is provincial I don't have to get a new license for each province unless I move there for several months.
--I know it would not be without its problems but I'm thinking with your provincial license you should be able to fish up to 3 days in another province. Or maybe something similar to the conservation stamp.. the conservation stamp purchased for other provinces would be just added to your licence and that province would get the fee.

--I"ve trekked across Canada several times with fishing gear... stopped at a rustic campsite along a river or lake... having to just sit and watch as no license for that area. 

a canada wide license would be great...last year i ended up with ontario, quebec, alberta and BC

[Silex-user]

About 6 years ago, I went to visited my good friend who lives in Daly City, California and we went to do some salt water fishing in Half Moon Bay for Humbolt squids. Man that is one experiences I will never forget.  I had to lower my 16" squid bar jig about 1,200feet to ocean floor while fighting 5 foot waves. Trying to bring that squid up to surface was something I will forget. In other words they beat the living day light of me!

Once on board of  Huli Cat charter boat these squids shoot their brown ink out and when in 30-40 second they died. Mind you, these squid taste pretty good.

As far as know there are no limits on them. My friend who knows the skipper of Huli Cat told us California State Biologist figured that part of they declining Southern  Chinnok salmon population is low is because of viscous appetite Humbolt squid.

I also fished the mid section of Sacramento and American rivers for winter steelhead. I had lots of stared because I was using my Sage 3113LB, Sliex reel, float and pink worms compared to hundred of other fishermen using the standard 8 1/2 feet casting rods.......no floats......just b.bing. Oh I caught some steelies and Silex did sing pretty loud.



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[kid fisherman]

Ontario: Loved the bass fishing, pike and walleye fishing over there.

B.C: There is so many opportunity's that everyday is different when you fish in B.C. Thats why I love it here no two days are alike.

[Schenley]

BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Washington Oregon California and Florida,  PV ,Acapulco , Huatouco in Mexico. Tuscany (for trout!!) in Italy. (At least thats what the locals called them  )  New Zealand for kingies, snappa, and browns and RBTs. 

Sometime I would love to try for peacock bass and taimen.  (well, I can drean, cant I??)

[Matt1984]

I had a chance to fish various parts of the northwest territories while working for a tug company called NTCL.. By far the best fishing of my life was on the east arm of great slave lake... Monster lake trout. ill post some pictures soon!

[Sandman]

Fished for trout in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, bass in Upper Peninsula Michigan, Bass and brookies in Quebec, and Atlantics in New Brunswick, (all on the fly), but nothing compares to BC's 5 species of salmon, steelhead, Cutties, bull trout, rainbows, lake trout, brookies, whitefish, bass, perch, founder (or sole), sculpin, pike minnow, all on the fly.  Add to that Sturgeon, halibut and rock cod if I was willing to but down the fly rod, and all within a couple of hours drive from home.

[blaydRnr]

Lake Athabasca in Alberta for trout...Lake Merced in San Francisco for small bass and panfish... The Bay area and piers for stripe bass, bow fish, and perch.... off the coast of Mazatlan for sailfish and marlin...the beaches of Puerto Vallarta for skipjacks.

[Butch1949]

Have to agree with Blueback and Troutbreath....I'm born and bred in Ontario been out here 22 years now....at the north end of Lake Superior with a minnow net dipping and 30 odd minnows you can catch in 20 minutes all the bass your freezer can hold.....Lake of the Woods by Kenora has all the Pickeral you can handle and altho not the same now as my son and I were back 4 years ago , Rice Lake near Peterborough had lots of Muskie, Pickeral and Bass...now lots of Blue gill and Sun Fish but my son did have some nice bass on.  My fave was Leith on Georgian Bay by Wiarton Willy's home Owen Sound....Rainbow's avg. 15 lbs. and the government breed "Splake"-..Speckled trout-Lake trout combo....real nice.   However!!!, that first Northern Coho, that first Chinook, and that first Chum and the first Pink and the first Kamloops Rainbow and the first Kokanee.....This is Fish'n Heaven

[Matt1984]

Ive wanted to take my fiance pike fishing... is there anything in BC or would i have to head into Alberta before id have any luck?

[Sandman]

To get northern pike in BC you would have to head to the Fort St Johns area, so going to Alberta would be easier.

[Matt1984]

To get northern pike in BC you would have to head to the Fort St Johns area, so going to Alberta would be easier.

kinda what i figured, thanks for the info though

[strobes]

Has anyone ever fished the Bighorn River in Southern Montana.  I was reading about it and they estimate between 3000 and 5000 trout per mile with most of them being over 14 inches.