{"id":233,"date":"2017-02-17T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:26:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:26:59","slug":"fish-for-free-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/17\/fish-for-free-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish for Free this Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families and fishing enthusiasts across Ontario can fish licence-free from Saturday, February 18 through Monday, February 20th, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This Family Day weekend, anglers can go ice fishing without a licence, so head out to one of\u00a0<a href=\"redir.aspx?C=1996d106663d4912ba9ad58b7e75e7cb&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ontarioparks.com%2fparksblog%2fwinter-camping-or-ice-fishing-anyone-north-south-parks-have-it-all%2f\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario&#8217;s provincial parks<\/a>\u00a0that are open during the winter to give it a try. Learn the ropes of ice fishing at one of the many\u00a0<a href=\"redir.aspx?C=1996d106663d4912ba9ad58b7e75e7cb&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ofah.org%2fprograms%2fontario-family-fishing-events%2f\" target=\"_blank\">events<\/a>\u00a0happening across the province, including Conservation Sudbury&#8217;s Friends and Family Ice Fishing Day on February 19, 2017 at Lake Laurentian Conservation Area in Sudbury.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to follow the\u00a0<a href=\"redir.aspx?C=1996d106663d4912ba9ad58b7e75e7cb&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ontario.ca%2fpage%2fice-fishing\" target=\"_blank\">rules<\/a>\u00a0for ice fishing in Ontario and stick to the\u00a0<a href=\"redir.aspx?C=1996d106663d4912ba9ad58b7e75e7cb&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ontario.ca%2fpage%2ffishing-limits-size-restrictions-and-catch-and-release\" target=\"_blank\">daily fishing limits<\/a>\u00a0to help protect our province&#8217;s fish populations.<\/p>\n<p>Recent mild weather may have made ice on many bodies of water unsafe, so be sure to check with local ice hut operators before venturing out and\u00a0<a href=\"redir.aspx?C=1996d106663d4912ba9ad58b7e75e7cb&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ontario.ca%2fpage%2fice-fishing%23section-5\" target=\"_blank\">make safety a priority<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anglers buy approximately 1 million licenses to fish in Ontario each year.<\/li>\n<li>This summer, Canadian residents can fish without a licence in Ontario from July 1-9, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>New anglers can borrow fishing gear for free through the\u00a0<a href=\"redir.aspx?C=1996d106663d4912ba9ad58b7e75e7cb&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.tackleshare.com%2f\" target=\"_blank\">Tackleshare program.<\/a>\u00a0The nearest Tackleshare place to Wawa is in Lake Superior Provincial Park at the Agawa Bay Information Centre (which is closed for the winter).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families and fishing enthusiasts across Ontario can fish licence-free from Saturday, February 18 through Monday, February 20th, 2017. This Family Day weekend, anglers can go ice fishing without a licence, so head out to one of\u00a0Ontario&#8217;s provincial parks\u00a0that are open during the winter to give it a try. Learn the ropes of ice fishing at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 03:30:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}