Mountains are easy. So is the ocean. Anyone can just step out of the car and there they are. Beautiful. However, when you’re on the prairies and exploring Manitoba, that Kodak Moment may require a little more effort on your part and you might even have to get down and dirty. But it’s worth the [...]

In this week’s Monster Minute, Travel Manitoba’s Fishing Ambassador Steven Wintemute visits Dunlop’s Fly-In Lodge & Outposts in northern Manitoba for MONSTER pike and walleye action!

In this week’s Monster Minute, Travel Manitoba’s Fishing Ambassador Steven Wintemute visits Big Sand Lake Lodge in northern Manitoba for MONSTER pike and lake trout action!

Trophy Northern Pike at its best! Dunlop’s Fly-In Lodge & Outpost. As we flew over Lake Waskaiowaka, located about 100 miles from  Thompson Manitoba,  the anticipation of hooking into a 50 inch northern pike made the hair on my arms stand at attention. As the plane came to a stop on the private airstrip we were [...]

While the city counts mosquitoes, I’m counting mulligans. What better place to rack ‘em up than a course with ‘wood’ in its name.  A short drive from the city and located on the edge of Sandilands Provincial Forest lies Cottonwood Golf Course. Sporting the slogan ‘the natural place to play’, Cottonwood’s tranquil untamed setting provides golfers [...]

“For as long as the sun shall shine, there will be fish in these waters ~THEEKAWI SAKAHIKAN~ While looking out the window of the plane, while flying over Big Sand Lake, I knew this would be a trip to remember. It’s not that the other trips were not memorable it’s just that I had never been this [...]

Children find it funny to stick their fingers in their noses, and funnier still if they can get their finger into your nose. And they ride teeny bicycles. Clowns tend to be the same. They both give me the shivers – and for most of my life I’ve made an art out of avoiding them. [...]

In this week’s MONSTER MINUTE  I  had the opportunity to boat  up the  Winnipeg River which is located in Manitoba’s scenic Whiteshell Provincial Park. While there I  experienced the down-home hospitality that Eagle Nest Lodge is famous for; and attempted to find some of the monster smallmouth bass that inhabit the waters [...]

It can only get better. So went my mantra on the day I played Carman Golf Club. Awakening to a rainy day, bits of blue sky taunted us from the horizon as we departed Winnipeg for Carman. Which meant right from the start, it could only get better. A picturesque town on the prairie, Carman was home [...]

We could see the rain clouds in the distance as we made the 45 minute boat ride from Point Du Bois, Manitoba to Eagle Nest Lodge . Driving was our soon to be guide for day 1, James. As James was strategically navigating  the reef and rock infested waters of the Winnipeg River to the [...]