More quality fisheries please. A point was brought up by someone earlier that he was unsure if a lot of our lakes can produce quality fisheries and that was why officials had decided to allow current regs (5 fish limits) to continue.
Historically in Alberta, lakes like Carson (Whitecourt), Hasse (Edmonton), Dickson Dam, Ashland Dam, and numerous other water bodies proved annually of the ability to pump out massive trout 30+ inchers (12 pounds). A combination of increasing fishing pressure and brailnless harvest has wiped out the possibility of seeing these fish sizes ever again. Take a fish or two for the pan but a stringer of 6" rainbows stocked an hour ago, WTF is that? Time to fix these trailer park regulations on a number of lakes and bring quality fisheries back to the province. Save some of the waters with the daily 5 fish for the lake rapers, bait tubbers/litter bugs, and bring back the good stuff to those lakes that have proven production as mentioned above. Manitoba went this route in the Parkland and now see 3-5 million dollars pumped into the local economy every season from fly fishing tourism. Pays for the aerators and the jobs.
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On a related note:
Who's choice was it to put the trout project on Muir anyway? With the water level dropped as much as it had at the time the project initiated, it was senseless waste of cash. Low water has stagnated and limited that fishery. Good intention bad location. Should have aerated Star lake and dropped some C&R there we'd be seeing 30" fish on a daily basis.
Oh by the way I'm a fisheries biologist.