Lakes like Lake isle suffer greatly from runoff from farms in the area as far as I am concerned. Unrelenting amounts of fertilizer leaching through the soil into the lake along with over development of the lake shore IE cottages on every available foot of shoreline. Eventually they will do the same thing to Jackfish lake west of Edmonton. That lake used to be such a nice clean lake with great fishing . Now it is a murky lake that is prone to algae blooms.It has McMansions covering the perimeter and even if you can get in to fish.Cabin owners have it limited to 20 cars in the parking lot I believe, you are inundated with Wake boats and Jet skis constantly churning up the lake. What was a great fishing lake is reduced to mediocre at best with skinny pike and a few stocked walleye.
In Alberta we take every resource it seems and squeeze the life out of it before we stop and think - hey we shoulda done that differently -- but we never seem to learn.
Like the fellow on here used to say ,"It's Alberta boys take what you can get before it's gone."(paraphrase)
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