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Out on the Ice: Ron Giroux on Ice Fishing

By Terry Tinkess of stories. There’s all kinds of people you can talk to out there.”
The best advise Giroux has for someone thinking about taking up ice fishing is to remember it is

any people know Ron Giroux as the Cornwall winter, you are out on the ice and it can get chilly.
MMinor Hockey Association (CMHA)
equipment manager. He can be found almost every “Dress warm,” he says, “because it can get cold out there. Dressing in layers works well for most

day of the hockey season keeping the equipment type of outdoor winter activities and ice fishing is no exception. If it gets too warm, you can always

in good working order and offering a “fix” when shed a layer or two, but if you don’t have enough you can get cold, and fast.
things don’t work the way they are supposed to.
What most people don’t know, however, is what
he likes to do when he is away from the rink. To

find out, all you have to do is look to the river
because Giroux is an avid fisherman regardless of

the season.
Giroux says that fishing has been a part of his

life for almost as long as he can remember. “I’ve

been fishing for at least fifty years,” says Giroux.

“My mother and father fished all the time and I
went with them. We were just kids, so instead of
getting us babysat, they took us fishing.”

When it comes to the winter variety, out on the
ice, Giroux says he has been doing that for about

thirty years. He prefers fishing at Hoople Creek,
between Long Sault and Ingleside, but he has
fished at many different locations as well.

“I have fished at Lancaster, Summerstown, Glen
Walter, at the church, in Cornwall at the Air Force
Wing, but I prefer Hoople. Hoople is a nice place
and the fish is good there.” The wind is cold, the ice is hard, but friendship warms the heart and of course, then there is

the fish! Photo by Terry Tinkess

There are differing opinions over what is the
best fish at Hoople Creek, but Giroux has his

opinion on the subject. “As far as I’m concerned,
it’s perch,” says Giroux, “but if you go ask some
other guys, they’ll tell you it’s walleye. I’m a perch FILION AWARDS Good

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While the cold weather we’ve had this year has Luck
made for a sturdy sheet of ice, it has apparently
had an effect on the fish as well. “It seems to have GIFTS Teams

slowed them down,” says Giroux. “Before we had

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As far as lures go, Giroux says he likes the type
referred to as “bugs.” “I usually go with the yellow
and red,” he says.

While he says that fishing of any kind is relaxing,

Giroux says the thing he likes best about ice fishing
is the way you get to talk with everybody. “There’s
always somebody out there, and there’s all kinds