Colder Quebec winter gives ice fishing aficionados reason to celebrate

Olivier Soumis’s green canvas tent sits in the middle of the frozen St. Lawrence River, providing a stark pop of colour against the muted tones of the snow and the open water in the distance. While thousands of people are heading to work just across the river in Montreal, the 25-year-old is out fishing.As the sky turns from pink to grey, the end of his pole dips and he begins pulling fish from the hole in the ice. First, a couple of walleye that are too small to keep are unhooked and quickly slid back into the water. Another, bigger walleye isn’t so lucky and gets tossed into a plastic sled for a later meal.