Fishing With Barbed Hooks Results in Netful of Charges

NIPIGON – REGIONAL – Five Americans and two Ontario residents have been fined a total of $2,250 for angling offences on Lake Nipigon.
Logan Davidowski, Robert Jozwiak, Robert Meuret and Kyle Vliestra, all of Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and were each fined $250 for angling with a barbed hook. Their fishing gear was forfeited to the Crown.
John Klassen of Minneapolis, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to angling with two lines with barbed hooks and one line with more than one barbless hook. He w