I’m Steven Wintemute, Your Travel Manitoba Fishing Ambassador.
Welcome to Manitoba, home to over 100,000 lakes and an angler’s paradise! It is an honor to be the fishing ambassador for Travel Manitoba. As owner of Hooked Media and publisher of Hooked magazine I have the opportunity to meet lots of great anglers and I even get to fish with them. What a thrill it is for me to take these anglers to some of my favorite lakes in Manitoba and watch them catch world class fish! Actually Manitoba is a world class fishing destination for anglers from ALL around the world. For proof, head over to It’s My Moment, a site dedicated to celebrating amazing Manitoba travel stories from people just like you (hint: there’s an amazing prize for the best story, so get yours up there soon). I’ve got a few stories posted there, and will be adding more all the time. This will definitely be another season to remember!
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My long time hunting buddies and I decided this would be the year we opted for a fly-in moose hunt in the far north of Western Ontario.
A long 17 hour drive from Sudbury area followed by a 45 minute flight with pilot Don Elliot of Mattice Outfitters. This family operation of over 25 years hosted us for a self guided moose hunt on the Okogi Reservoir.
Outstanding accommodations and 14 foot Lund boats with quiet 4 stroke 15 hp Yamaha motors made our ten day hunt a once in lifetime trip.
Greg our master chef prepared meals every night that left us stuffed. Wacky-Pat ensured the main cottage was well heated for those cold nights. Big-O scoped the shorelines for possible moose signs. Timmy kept us entertained with a nightly chorus of campfire dinner music.
The Ogoki is a long lake with bays and inlets so inviting to moose. Tamarack and Black Spruce crowd the shore line in most places. Using quality binoculars while skirting shorelines was one of our most productive methods for locating moose.
Weather changed about every half hour so we had to be prepared for dead calm to white caps on the lake. Scouting the numerous bays indeed paid off in the end.
Our island host Austin ( Don’s son) showed us how just versitile a LUND boat could be.
He helped us load my almost 1000 pound bull into 14 -foot Lund and transported it back to the island dock (12 kilometers away) to gut and quarter it there.
I never thought it would even fit inside the Lund never mind float!
Two days earlier Poco had shot a hefty cow. We gut and quartered it and then loaded up into the 14 foot Lund with no problems.
Big kudos to those reliable Lund boats and Austin for all his help.
To book a great moose or awesome fishing trip on the OGOKI contact Yolanda at 1-800-411-0334 or online at www.walleye.ca
The first of these chain saws may of been fine for professionals in the lumber and woodcutting trades but were more than a bit too much for the amateur to handle , so says Manitoba outfitter Jadran Transcona. Even for the odd casual woodcutting these devices were to unwieldy if not downright dangerous to have down at the lake cottage or camp or for occasional outdoorsmen and hunters out on a hunting or fishing vacation at their favorite lodge.
While many serious campers bought and used these , they were not the handiest items to include in general hunting , fishing or camping gear packing. This the manufacturers recognized this need in the hunting and fishing outdoors market for such a product.
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