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Old 11-29-2020, 05:18 PM
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Anybody been up to any lakes towards GP, Valleyview or Peace River? I figure farther north should have some good ice by now.
7-8" on most of them as of Saturday.
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Old 11-29-2020, 05:18 PM
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Travers out from little bow park boat launch was 4-5” fishing sucked water is way down from summertime levels. Whitefish swimming but couldn’t get any to hit anything. Main lake water is still open.
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Old 11-29-2020, 05:29 PM
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Spring Lake 7 inches good ice. Was there in the afternoon so bite was slow. Only catch 1.
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Old 11-29-2020, 05:43 PM
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Spring Lake 7 inches good ice. Was there in the afternoon so bite was slow. Only catch 1.
Was that at the Spring Lake just west of Edmonton?
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Old 11-29-2020, 06:44 PM
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Any news on Newell or crawling? Was thinking about making a trip out tomorrow to test out the new flasher!

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7” at crawling valley today (around the boat launch anyways)
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Old 11-30-2020, 06:00 AM
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Lac La Nonne across from Birch Cove there was 4 to 5 inches where I checked.

At the launch by the store on the east side of lake was told 6 inches. Quads and SXS’s on the ice there. Never checked the thickness myself.
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Old 11-30-2020, 08:37 AM
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Default Spring Lake - Stony Plain

Sorry, yes it was Spring Lake west of Edmonton. I forgot that we have so many lakes in Alberta we have too reuse names. Lol!

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Old 11-30-2020, 09:21 AM
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Crawling Valley had 4-5 inches of good hard clear ice on Sunday. Fishing was slow though, 8 fish in 5.5hours. Campground gates are open and someone drove a quad onto the ice and was fishing the west side. 4 groups fished the outlet bay. Judging by the amount of holes everyone was drilling throughout the day I'm guessing the bite was slow for everyone.
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Old 11-30-2020, 09:36 AM
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7 inches at Lower Chain...one good rainbow on the ice, saw 5 more on the camera over 5 mid day hours.
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Old 11-30-2020, 09:41 AM
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Well I'm out on Pigeon right now. Straight out from the launch. Have seen fish on camera at 8fow, nothing at 12 and so far nothing at 22 fow. Tons of forage but no fish on the ice. Tons of ice. Funny enough, ice is thicker at 22fow than it is at 8fow. I'm about 12 or 13" of ice at 23fow. Slow day tho....
were you at the provincial park
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Old 11-30-2020, 03:44 PM
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were you at the provincial park
No, I was told earlier in the thread to go to Grandview. Started at the boat launch there and basically went straight out. Saw one fish on the camera and that's about it. Was really quiet. When things get thick all over, I think I want to try by the big weed bed directly across the lake from Grandview.
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Old 11-30-2020, 05:27 PM
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No, I was told earlier in the thread to go to Grandview. Started at the boat launch there and basically went straight out. Saw one fish on the camera and that's about it. Was really quiet. When things get thick all over, I think I want to try by the big weed bed directly across the lake from Grandview.
What weed bed. Also if you went north and west of the Glenview launch their is a hump that comes up to 10ftow and drops down to 25tftow. It is generally good their

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Old 11-30-2020, 06:01 PM
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Wasn't any better along the west side I was getting 5-7 on crawling valley. drilled enough holes to zap the ion by noon.
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Old 11-30-2020, 07:58 PM
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No, I was told earlier in the thread to go to Grandview. Started at the boat launch there and basically went straight out. Saw one fish on the camera and that's about it. Was really quiet. When things get thick all over, I think I want to try by the big weed bed directly across the lake from Grandview.
was out today at Sandholm for a couple hours never seen a fish
was trying some new spots.
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Old 11-30-2020, 11:18 PM
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Wasn't any better along the west side I was getting 5-7 on crawling valley. drilled enough holes to zap the ion by noon.
Were you there on Sunday with the quad and clam flip tent? I was on the quad with the black shack. Slow day for me. Only one small pike. Moved 8 times fished 6’ to 16’.
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Old 12-01-2020, 09:29 PM
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Anyone check out ice on Crowsnest lake?

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Old 12-02-2020, 09:14 AM
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That was me. We tried 3 points before we ran out of juice. (Little over cautious checking the ice) Had a small flurry of walleye and a couple of dinker pike.
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Old 12-02-2020, 10:22 AM
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9” of ice in 10 fow out from grande view at pigeon.
Seen 4 huge whites cruising halfway up the water column.
No walleye seen.
Switching over to wire worms now.



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Old 12-02-2020, 01:12 PM
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Default how thick is the ice at mink lake, saw people on it last weekend?

how thick is the ice on mink lake just west of stony plain? saw people out on it last weekend?
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Old 12-02-2020, 04:52 PM
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Fished beaver mines for the day 7 to 9 inches and over 20 fish in 5 hours!

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Old 12-02-2020, 06:59 PM
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9” of ice in 10 fow out from grande view at pigeon.
Seen 4 huge whites cruising halfway up the water column.
No walleye seen.
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was out off of silver beach today 11 inches of ice
slow day only one walleye landed
tried from 5 feet to 17 feet
nice warm wind free day
no whites seen
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Old 12-02-2020, 08:00 PM
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was out off of silver beach today 11 inches of ice
slow day only one walleye landed
tried from 5 feet to 17 feet
nice warm wind free day
no whites seen
No walleye seen. Lots of whites seen. No takers. Can’t figure them out on pigeon. Sylvan and gull no problem. Pigeon, battle, and buck..... can’t get them to commit. Sigh.....
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Old 12-03-2020, 09:30 AM
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No walleye seen. Lots of whites seen. No takers. Can’t figure them out on pigeon. Sylvan and gull no problem. Pigeon, battle, and buck..... can’t get them to commit. Sigh.....
were you using wire worms or some thing else?
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Old 12-03-2020, 11:38 AM
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were you using wire worms or some thing else?
Mainly wireworms.
I’ve also tried small kackmasters and small
Micro jigs. Sometimes a maggot, sometimes not.
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Old 12-03-2020, 11:47 AM
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Any recent reports for Newell?
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Old 12-03-2020, 02:26 PM
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Just saw a report for Sunbreaker at Sylvan. 6" about 200m out from the launch. Not very much, and only going to shrink with this warm weather over the next week. Shame. Might be a few weeks yet before there's really good, safe ice at Sunbreaker area...
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Old 12-03-2020, 03:03 PM
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About 6 inches of clear under one inch of white ice on birch lake yesterday.
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Old 12-03-2020, 03:21 PM
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About 6 inches of clear under one inch of white ice on birch lake yesterday.
heading out toward Sundre/Caroline areas to get a Christmas tree off crown land this weekend, and thinking we might pop up there and drill a few holes. The wife is all hot n bothered about catching Brookies and Browns. Thanks for the update!
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Old 12-03-2020, 04:53 PM
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Default Birch lake

Only managed 3 little brookies. 1 on a brass coloured small tungsten jig I usually use for perch
tipped with shrimp and the other 2 on a little green nymph under the jig. A few others cruised by and had a look but weren't interested. I was 7ft of water.
I haven't been there in a few years and probably won't be going back, nice lake but not a ton of fish and better options closer to south calgary.
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Old 12-03-2020, 04:56 PM
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Hows the ice out at Lac Ste Anne?
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