Pine Coulee: fly rod or ice auger?
Has anyone been there recently. I know it only opened on April 1, but what should I pack for a trip on Sunday? Fly rod or ice gear?
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Probably still solid,perhaps both.Let us know what you see.
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Over 30 inches of ice at most lakes so won't be open water fishing early this year.
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With the warm weather and wind I assume the ice is most likely not safe at the shore.
Best to wait a few weeks and see. If you are itchn to fish then try Spray it usually stays froze well into late April. |
Open water under the bridge.
Other place still ice. Near the bridge it was 7.5" ice @ 14' deep on Apr 1, not super hard ice (or maybe my auger was too sharp). Didn't try to move more closer to the open water. Some far away place was at 11" of ice if I remember correctly. |
Thanks for the info everyone. I was gonna hit Stay, but the wind is supposed to be brutal up there on Sunday (shocker!)
I figured the seasonal closure of Pine Coulee was to limit ice fishing on there. Or is it to do with the spawn you think? |
They are most likely thinking it is going to be a tropy trout lake thus the 50cm min on trout. Don't think there are too many of that size just yet.
Most lakes designated trout trophy have a minimum length as well as early closure to stop ice fising. A good example of the ice fishing closure once they designate it trophy would be Police Outpost south west of Cardston. Great small lake and fun to ice fish but that was cancelled with the change from Ap to Oct. open only same as they have done to PCR |
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I spent many fun hours on that little lake caught several large trout but could count on one hand the numer of 50cm. Always thanked them for the fight and sent them back. My brother in laws favorite lake and he passed away there right after tying his boat onto the roof of his truck canapy RIP Earnie |
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55 cm 1 fish 63-70 cm 10 fish 10 fish |
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I am curious where all this information about Gerard stocking in pine coulee came from?
When were they stocked and what size as well? |
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It’s been stocked with triploid.
Fast forward to 21:33. https://www.youtube.com/live/Q5I6nv-NR9k?feature=share |
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Starting to think the large 9-12 lb fish posted about earlier in the thread would be retired broods. |
Well, page 7 of this tells us that they stocked the tltlj strain and the legend at the bottom says that’s trout lodge jumpers.
https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/be2e...jan02-2018.pdf Google that and we get this, could be a red herring just does provide some good media to digest. Have a look at the growth chart 16 months can produce a 5lb fish. We probably arn’t optimal growth but some of those fish have been in the lake for 6 years now https://www.troutlodge.com/en/trout-...t-eggs/jumper/ I have been told by sources that they did dump in some of big brood hens but I don’t know what strain those where and I know people that have caught some large trout in there. Whether they are still there now who knows I don’t have a boat to access the hot spot I’ve been told produced them. |
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5lbs under optimal conditions in 16months would be under aquaculture conditions where temp, oxygen levels, and feed quality is much better than what will be found in nature. The Jumper strain is not really a big fish strain. Most in aquaculture are actually achieving more often in the 3-4lbs range in 16 months because many of them can’t achieve optimal conditions either I worked with a different strain(a mutt strain created within B.C. aquaculture) that often produces better growth rates and in 16months I was probably averaging 4lbs. My growth rate was often effected by hot summers slowing them down. I also didn’t run tripliods which effected my growth rate I would say that it’s just an ok strain being stocked in pine coulee |
Is there a campground there ?
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After 10 years of working with them I personally have no interest in fishing for stocked rainbows Personally I want to see what giant pike is hiding in there eating stocked trout lol |
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