Prairie Point

Manitoulin Streams, for example, is an award-winning volunteer-driven organization (with 1 to 2 professional staff members) that for the past decade has methodically set about to rehabilitate Manitoulin’s streams, in the interest of making it easier for them to produce the fish that you like to catch (and eat).

If you visit the village of Sheguiandah, the stream that runs through it is named Bass Creek and it’s a walleye spawning stream now that the stream has been adjusted (by means of the careful placement of big rocks) to allow spawning walleye to more easily navigate against the rushing water and find the perfect patch of gravel on which to lay their eggs.

The resulting fish hatch then repopulates the Sheguiandah Bay area of Manitoulin’s eastern shoreline (and beyond) and are there to entice anglers. There’s a handy viewing platform beside the stream where visitors can watch the fish in their spawning time. Many of the adult fish were reared by the local Little Current Fish and Game Club and planted in the bay in the first place, so even more helpers have been involved in setting the scene for the fish you’ll catch (and eat).