Skip to content

Lake Athapapuskow listed as top ice-fishing destination by tourism service

Lake Athapapuskow has gotten a moment in the sun courtesy of a Canadian travel website.
P15 Flinty Fishing Derby 1 edit

Lake Athapapuskow has gotten a moment in the sun courtesy of a Canadian travel website.

The lake was named by travel and fishing company FishingBooker.com as one of Canada’s top eight ice-fishing destinations. Athapapuskow was one of eight around Canada to make the list and the only one in Manitoba to appear in the ranking. One lake from Saskatchewan, Last Mountain Lake northwest of Regina, was named, along with locations from different provinces and territories.

FishingBooker did mislabel the name of the lake as Athapapuskow Lake in the ranking, instead of its official name of Lake Athapapuskow or the terms preferred by locals - “Big Athapap”, “Little Athapap” or just “Athapap”.

“Athapapuskow Lake [sic] is known for its spectacular lake trout fishery. In fact, one of its world records was held for over 40 years and it’s still a top fishery today,” reads the FishingBooker.com report.

The lake is known as one of Manitoba’s top fishing destinations, both for summer and winter, and boasts a wide array of fish species and wildlife. Trout, pike, walleye and other species are plentiful throughout the lake, with several lodges and outfitters serving the area.

Three fishing world records have been set at Lake Athapapuskow over the years, including a world record 22-pound, eight-ounce burbot, a six-pound line class record lake trout caught in 1997 (44 pounds in total) and the world record catch for lake trout. That fish, a 62-pound, eight-ounce monster landed back in the 1930s by Leone Grayson, stood as the biggest lake trout ever caught for more than four decades.

Other places to make the FishingBooker.com list include Ontario’s Muskoka Lakes, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Perade in Quebec, Newfoundland Ponds in Newfoundland, Alberta’s Wabaum Lake, Whistler, B.C. and Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories.

push icon
Be the first to read breaking stories. Enable push notifications on your device. Disable anytime.
No thanks