Why do people fish in the Lachine Canal?
Both CBC and CTV have a CP piece Tuesday morning about the Lachine Canal becoming a popular fishing spot despite its industrial past.
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carswell 09:57 on 2024-07-16 Permalink
“Parks Canada, which operates the Lachine Canal, … said it hadn’t observed an increase in the number of anglers in recent months”
This doesn’t jibe with my experience.
Weather permitting, I tend to bike the full length of the canal path twice a week in season (April 15 – November 15 IIRC) and this year I’ve seen a significant increase in the number of anglers along the canal — maybe double the number I saw in pre-pandemic years — including in places were I’d never or rarely seen them before, like in the brush alongside the CN line in St-Henri and around the Atwater bridge. There are also often anglers on the site of the former Lachine marina, where they used to be banned in season unless they’d rented a dock.
Kate 10:46 on 2024-07-16 Permalink
Maybe it’s the gap between the official numbers of anglers with permits vs anglers without?
Ian 14:47 on 2024-07-16 Permalink
I didn’t even realize you need a fishing license in the city … Fishing is super popular all over Montreal, I figured it was just catch and release folk out for a chill day of pole fishing – giant aggressive pike trying to eat children notwithstanding.