Ice-fishing with kids
If you don’t make it fun, they won’t like it. Going out again will be unlikely. In that respect,...
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Ice fishing
Portable Burn Barrel
On a recent half-day ice-fishing adventure with our son, I got to experience some of the benefits of a portable burn barrel that he has been using for the past five or six years. He puts it to use throughout the year, but...
Read MoreBurbot Fishing at Little Atlin Lodge
From the day we came to Whitehorse it was my partner’s dream to catch a burbot; the only freshwater member of the cod family is found in most Yukon lakes and large rivers.We were told that they are easily caught overnight on...
Read MoreTelling Stories
Sandra Grace Storey’s Words Like Birds exhibit digs deep into all that we struggle to express. It finds a great tenderness there.Storey has created an exhibition of small, focussed sculptures for the solo show room at the Yukon...
Read MoreIce Fishing, Part 1 of 2
In southern Canada’s ice-fishing season, lakes have been traditionally dotted with wooden ice huts or shanties. These are frozen in places with propane or home-built oil drip stoves to keep the anglers warm. Rarely in the Yukon...
Read MoreFish on Porcupine River
Sitting at a fish hole in the dark on the Porcupine River, in the Yukon at Old Crow in the fall, is not unusual.Excitement stirs when the ice begins to freeze on the Porcupine River.My friends and I begin to prepare ice augers,...
Read MoreIce; It’s Always Changing
With warm weather things change quickly, as we have seen this year.By mid-December there was a great freeze on most lakes, with little snow. Then the pineapple express brought warm weather and bad ice. But as the weather cooled,...
Read MoreFinally Fishing Time
Leaning against the counter at my wife Heather’s staff party, I listened to tales of hiking trips, caribou hunts, broken ATVs and fishing trips good and bad. With the plethora of personalities involved we heard many...
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