This is the fishing article I noticed today and referred to in an earlier post.  I heard the same stuff on a fishing show on CJOB radio last night while working so the buzz is getting around for certain.  Search for "Cats on the Red", Stu McKay, if you're reading this and are interested in coming up here.  Or just search for Manitoba Tourism.
The Winnipeg Free Press - front
Manitoba walleye hook U.S. anglers Thu Oct 27 2005
EAST SELKIRK -- The best greenback walleye fishing seen in years in this area is luring plenty of greenbacks -- the American dollar version. Yesterday under beautiful blue skies, warm temperatures and no wind, anglers on boats and on shore were reporting trophy size catches of walleye -- Most Manitobans call them pickerel -- just by dipping their lines in the water of the Red River for several kilometres on both sides of this community. "The fishing here is just wonderful," said American angler Larry Tish, who came all the way from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to drop a line in the water.
"It's just great right now," he said as he leaned back in his boat, waiting for the next nibble. "The other day I got five walleye which were over 27 inches. It was probably my best day of fresh water fishing ever. One was probably 31 inches and weighed 14 pounds.



"I told a friend of mine that day is something people dream about." From the last week of September to roughly the last week of October, the walleye which have spent the summer in Lake Winnipeg swim up the Red River following their food source. Unlike walleye elsewhere, these fish, from living and eating in Lake Winnipeg, pick up a distinctive translucent green tinge on their backs seen nowhere else, giving them the nickname greenbacks. Tish said he's not the only American up on the Red River trying to land this year's not-so-elusive trophy sized walleye. He has bumped into compatriates from Arizona, Montana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North and South Dakota.
"This is the best walleye fishing I've ever been at, bar none."