>>2697801Rivers around here usually do, although to be fair this winter hasn't been as cold as normal. I know the nearby creek is frozen for sure though (I was thinking of trying to ice fish on it because while there's fuck all there in the summer except parasite-ridden suckers, my grandparents apparently used to catch good pike in the winter, but the ice is nowhere near thick enough to safely go out on it) but I haven't seen any of the larger rivers lately.
>Where do you live? I can help guide youSouthwest Manitoba. Despite living in a province with literally tens of thousands of lakes, I happen to live in the one spot where any good lake is 1+ hour away (there's a closer one, but it's full of toxic algae in the summer because of farm runoff, and is only really good for ice fishing). Though I have no boat so I suppose lake fishing probably isn't much worth it anyways.
I know there are stocked trout ponds nearby, obviously not gonna be fishable in the winter though (and when I did fish there in the summer, it was only tiny rainbows).
Other than that, I've caught a few brown bullheads at a river confluence, but only one was large enough to justify trying to eat it (it was not particularly good, in my opinion, though my friend loved it. For some reason nobody eats catfish here even though we have tons of them).
Though I do know that there must be a big fucker in there. I bought a big catfish hook (for no particular reason, since we were catching them fine with smaller hooks) and let my friend try it out last fall in the same part of the river. Something kept biting and taking his nightcrawler, but he couldn't hook it. Whatever it was, it bent a 30mm steel catfish hook.
