Pelican Lake On Blast (But for the right reasons)
I’m pretty careful about putting a body of water on full social media blast, especially a lake without any tighter management regulations in place. My reasoning isn’t to protect anything for myself, but more out of respect for the local anglers who fish the lake every day and is a deep part of their lives. So this post is going to seem a bit off, but there’s a good reasoning that I’ll get to. During the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s Pelican lake was the go to destination for trophy perch in Manitoba and an amazing walleye fishery. Fishermen traveled far and wide for a chance to test her waters, it was nothing to see 200 to 300 trucks on the lake during late March. Fertile and shallow, the lake was full of forage for these fish, and those fish were plentiful and grew fast. But, the shallow fertile waters was a double edged sword. The same factor in the lakes high productions was also part of it’s cyclic downfall. Pelican lake would periodically suffer massive winterkills. Th...