Going fishing? The host of Fish'n Canada is asking anglers to hold their reels

Going fishing? The host of Fish'n Canada is asking anglers to hold their reels

Source: CBC News

4/25/2020

Trout season opened across most of Ontario on Saturday, but the owner and co-host of a Canadian fishing TV show is urging anglers in southern Ontario to reconsider casting their lines.

Angelo Viola, of The Fish'n Canada Show, is worried that limited riverbanks will be busy and anglers won't be able to maintain physical distance.

Under normal circumstances, he said up to 600 fishers flock to main rivers that feed into Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and Georgian Bay during the first 24 hours of the season.

Viola is concerned that with most public boat launches closed and some municipalities imposing their own fishing bans on popular bodies of water, cabin-fevered anglers will head to the same stretches of available river.

Lake Ontario

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