Ice fishing guides for Canada

General guidance written by Ice Fish Canada. It is not a report from any one lake and it does not replace the official provincial rules or your own judgement on the ice.

Start here

• Ice fishing for beginners: licence, safety plan, basic gear, choosing a lake and what to do on the ice.
• How thick should ice be? The published minimums for walking, ice fishing and snowmobiles, with the source.

Guides by species

Each guide has tips for the species and a list of the lakes where it is recorded.

• Arctic Char ice fishing
• Arctic Grayling ice fishing
• Black Crappie ice fishing
• Brook Trout ice fishing
• Brown Trout ice fishing
• Bull Trout ice fishing
• Burbot ice fishing
• Cisco ice fishing
• Cutthroat Trout ice fishing
• Dolly Varden ice fishing
• Goldeye ice fishing
• Kokanee ice fishing
• Lake Trout ice fishing
• Lake Whitefish ice fishing
• Mountain Whitefish ice fishing
• Northern Pike ice fishing
• Rainbow Trout ice fishing
• Splake ice fishing
• Walleye ice fishing
• Yellow Perch ice fishing

Guides by province and territory

• Ice fishing in Alberta
• Ice fishing in British Columbia
• Ice fishing in Manitoba
• Ice fishing in New Brunswick
• Ice fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Ice fishing in Nova Scotia
• Ice fishing in Northwest Territories
• Ice fishing in Nunavut
• Ice fishing in Ontario
• Ice fishing in Prince Edward Island
• Ice fishing in Quebec
• Ice fishing in Saskatchewan
• Ice fishing in Yukon

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