English River, Ontario

[Pike Slayer]

I know there was a mercury spill here in the mid-70s and the river was closed to commercial fishing, a number of lodges closed as a result, and the company responsible for the spill reached a cash settlement with the first nations. We are looking at this location for a weeks worth of fishing this summer and wondered if everything is safe? Have studies, monitoring etc. been conducted over the years since by the government or others to make this determination? We are all shore lunch hounds and just want to make sure what we eat and take home to eat is safe.

[Marc Schneider]

If the fish out of the English River are unsafe, I am a dead man! I fish the English River where is comes into Minnitaki every June, and have eaten plenty of Walleye from there. Great place to fish. BIG Pike in there too.