ice fishingThe Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is reporting a couple of separate incidents on Lake Nipissing in January have led to fines for area men.

Both cases were in court in May.

A North Bay man was fined $1,600 after pleading guilty to illegally catching and keeping four under-sized walleye.

Meantime, a North Bay man and a man from Powassan plead guilty and were fined a total of $2,000 for possessing five walleye over the allowable conservation limit and packaging them so they couldn’t be easily identified.