Expert Fishing Gear Reviews & Tips for Canadian Anglers
FishingGearCanada Team 
Somewhere under the ice right now, a walleye is deciding whether your line looks like a twig or a threat. That decision happens in a split second, and it depends almost entirely on which spool you loaded before you left the garage. The fluorocarbon vs monofilament ice fishing debate gets tossed around bait shops like … Read more
Somewhere around your third fishless flag of the morning, you start blaming everything but yourself — the moon phase, the barometer, your buddy’s “lucky” jig. But out on gin-clear Canadian lakes, the culprit is often dangling right below your rod tip: your line. fluorocarbon ice fishing line exists precisely because winter water gets scary transparent … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of heartbreak that happens on a frozen lake at 7 a.m.: you drop your jig, get a solid thump, set the hook — and your line, stiff as old garden hose from sitting in a -18°C truck bed overnight, snaps a foot off the reel. That’s not bad luck. That’s … Read more
Somewhere around your third frozen finger of the morning, you’ll understand exactly why line choice matters more on the ice than it ever does in open water. A monofilament ice fishing line that behaves beautifully in July can turn into a coiled, kinked mess the second the mercury drops below minus ten. That’s not bad … Read more
There’s a specific kind of silence that settles over a frozen lake around 3 p.m. on a grey January afternoon — the kind where you start questioning every life choice that led you to a five-gallon bucket over eight feet of water. That’s usually when a good rattle spoons ice fishing setup earns its keep. … Read more
There’s a specific kind of quiet that settles over a frozen lake at 7 a.m., broken only by the crunch of your boots and the hollow thunk of an auger biting through 30 centimetres of blue ice. You drop a lure down the hole, give it one sharp lift-and-drop, and then… nothing happens for three … Read more
There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over a frozen lake at 7 a.m., broken only by the crunch of your boots and the whir of an auger biting through eighteen inches of ice. Then you drop a lure down the hole, and everything changes. If you’ve ever wondered why some anglers seem to … Read more
There’s a particular kind of silence that happens right before a pike hits your jig through eight centimetres of ice — and then there isn’t, because the rod tip buries itself and your reel starts singing. Northern pike don’t nibble. They ambush, they crush, and in cold water they can be surprisingly picky about the … Read more
Jigging raps for walleye ice fishing are balanced, weighted minnow-profile lures that dart, glide, and circle back to the hole on a lift-fall retrieve, mimicking a dying baitfish closely enough to trigger reaction strikes from otherwise sluggish, cold-water walleye. If you have ever stood over a hole watching your flasher, willing a mark to move … Read more
There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over a frozen lake at 7 a.m., broken only by the crunch of boots and the faint whine of an auger. That silence is exactly why walleye jigs for ice fishing matter so much — in that stillness, presentation is everything, and the wrong jig sitting dead … Read more