BELL EWART, Ontario -- It was one of those late winter days that felt like spring. Seagulls drifted overhead and Canada geese honked from the ice-clad shoreline. Suddenly a man's voice cried out, ...

If you like catching perch, you'll love the way ice fishing began on Simcoe Lake this season. Perch schools showed close to shore in late fall just before ice formed on the south-central Ontario ...

BEAVERTON, Ontario — I saw just the slightest twitch of my line, picked up on it, felt weight, and set the hook. Not too much later I had a 10-inch perch flopping on the ice. I was on Lake Simcoe, ...

KESWICK – Out on the vast whiteness of Lake Simcoe, where the ice underfoot is 35 centimetres thick, it’s a toasty plus 20C. And inside their rental hut, Gordon Ing and his 9-year-old daughter ...

For more than 40 years, the Orillia Perch Festival has dangled the hope of glory and grand prizes to fishers across Ontario. This year, winner Kevin Gratton of Brampton pulled in dozens of perch.

Two Toronto-area men were each been fined $1,000 July 10 and had their licences suspended for two years for taking 179 perch over the limit. So Chon Luu of Toronto and Van Cuong Nguyen of Vaughan, ...

A Michigan man was fined and banned from angling in Ontario for two years after he pleaded guilty to exceeding the perch limit while fishing on Lake Simcoe near Beaverton. According to the Ministry of ...