Jared Domin’s late summer fishing trip to Kootenay Lake was a double win, dominating a family fishing wager and scooping up $1,000 in prizes in the Kootenay Lake Anger Incentive Program monthly draw. The Sparwood resident has been visiting the lake regularly with his dad in recent years. “I spend a bit of time there when I was younger and then I started coming back last year
Aidan Burt and Roman van’t Land had one of their best fishing weekends ever at Johnson’s Landing on Kootenay Lake and topped their haul by each winning a new kayak. The fishing friends from Nelson each entered trout heads in the Kootenay Lake Angler Incentive Program Kids’ Derby, which awards more than 30 prizes each season for rainbow and bull trout. Fishing from a 16-foot
Bob and Starla Ackney weren’t expecting much when they set out on for a mid-morning paddle Kootenay Lake last month. “We took the kayaks out and decided to drop a line in the water and on my first cast I caught a nice rainbow trout,” Bob said. “Starla was having trouble with her rod, so I handed her mine and she cast out a few times and she caught one, too.” Two shiny trout is