2019 Ice Reports

[deanstr8]

Anyone been to South Buck yet? Planning to go Sunday with sleds to access lake.

Thanks in Advance.

[timbojones]

Anyone aware of ice depth and or fishing reports from Strubel Lake in ES2.

Thanks in advance!

[Vigsy]

Anyone have any recent reports from lac la biche? Thinkin of bringing side by side out this weekend.

[fishn_palmer]

Anyone been out to Upper or Lower K. Hows the ice? Thanks

[TROLLER]

Originally Posted by timbojones

Anyone aware of ice depth and or fishing reports from Strubel Lake in ES2.

Thanks in advance!

5-5 inches hard ice Tons of snow on top. Fishing early this week was very slow.

[Gbuss]

Pigeon lake have 10 to 11 inches arround the provincial park out about 400yrds.

Gbuss

[capper]

Originally Posted by Vigsy

Anyone have any recent reports from lac la biche? Thinkin of bringing side by side out this weekend.

This is second hand information, but my buddy said guys were driving on Lac la biche (staying close to shore, but driving on). Please keep us posted if you go, I’m headed out east of there and would love a second update on conditions.

[RACKER]

Originally Posted by Gbuss

Pigeon lake have 10 to 11 inches arround the provincial park out about 400yrds.

Gbuss

How did ya do? Is there a big ice heave on shore.

[supersquid666]

So i hit a small lake just west of Edmonton this afternoon with my son. Fishing in 21-22 feet of crystal clear water. Ice was horrible, 2" top water and 6"of slush and only 7"of good clear ice. Usually this is a hotspot for tons of small perch, great for kids to get hooked on fishing. Today....crickets, staying warm in the tent, doing some jigging and a couple anchovies near the bottom for pike. I'm out trying other holes when my son starts talking about a log on the bottom. I came back to the tent and he shows me this "log". Quick glance and I'm like ok..great its a log....but then I blacked out the tent, let my eyes adjust and took another look.....not a log!!!!! 3 feet away from my 6" anchovie is a monster pike....sitting right on the bottom...sat there chillin' for an hour. It was easily 7-7.5 times the length of the bait. I compared and visually measured a dozen times....this thing is 42-44" easy, and thick. After dropping everything next to it in my arsenal...it ever so slowly moved off into the abyss without so much a sniff of what we had to offer. We did end up catching some perch and 5-6 lb pike....but not the beast. But just watching it made our day.
That being said....super disappointed with the trash people leave behind on the ice. Not hard to pick up your beer cans and coffee cups after yourselves!!!!

[Crazy4MooseHunting]

Lac la Biche has ice ranging from 12-16”. The park lakes were 12” last weekend. Shacks are out on la Biche.

[Stryker2]

Originally Posted by deanstr8

Anyone been to South Buck yet? Planning to go Sunday with sleds to access lake.

Thanks in Advance.

X2

[swampy45]

Originally Posted by supersquid666

So i hit a small lake just west of Edmonton this afternoon with my son. Fishing in 21-22 feet of crystal clear water. Ice was horrible, 2" top water and 6"of slush and only 7"of good clear ice. Usually this is a hotspot for tons of small perch, great for kids to get hooked on fishing. Today....crickets, staying warm in the tent, doing some jigging and a couple anchovies near the bottom for pike. I'm out trying other holes when my son starts talking about a log on the bottom. I came back to the tent and he shows me this "log". Quick glance and I'm like ok..great its a log....but then I blacked out the tent, let my eyes adjust and took another look.....not a log!!!!! 3 feet away from my 6" anchovie is a monster pike....sitting right on the bottom...sat there chillin' for an hour. It was easily 7-7.5 times the length of the bait. I compared and visually measured a dozen times....this thing is 42-44" easy, and thick. After dropping everything next to it in my arsenal...it ever so slowly moved off into the abyss without so much a sniff of what we had to offer. We did end up catching some perch and 5-6 lb pike....but not the beast. But just watching it made our day.
That being said....super disappointed with the trash people leave behind on the ice. Not hard to pick up your beer cans and coffee cups after yourselves!!!!

was also out for perch and pike yesterday, super slow day. Awesome your son got to see such a big fish cruising, but too bad it wasnt biting!

[timbojones]

Originally Posted by TROLLER

5-5 inches hard ice Tons of snow on top. Fishing early this week was very slow.

Thank you so much.

Please keep the reports on Strubel coming as planning on taking the kids out for a day after Santa visits.

Thanks!

[Gbuss]

Originally Posted by RACKER

How did ya do? Is there a big ice heave on shore.

Managed one 18.5" walleye and some one pushed the snow onto the ice right in front of the boat launch. I was fishing in 18ft of water and every hole I drilled had lots of fresh water shrimp come out.

Gbuss

[Gongshow]

Any info on Lac Ste. Anne? Specifically Yellowstone/ Ross Haven area.

Thanks

[Jay81]

Are the puddles freezing up on Newell? I’ve been reading a bunch on this lake and they talk about rainbows and brown trout in there. Has anyone pulled any out ?

[swampy45]

Originally Posted by Jay81

Are the puddles freezing up on Newell? I’ve been reading a bunch on this lake and they talk about rainbows and brown trout in there. Has anyone pulled any out ?

puddles are still there. Havent caught bows or browns, but have heard the same thing, would be curious to know if they are in there...

[Ronji]

I was out at Wizard yesterday. 12 inches of ice with flood water.
Fishing was on the slow side. Couple of perch. Enough for dinner.

[pinelakeperch]

I know of some rainbows being caught in Newell, but haven’t heard of any browns. The majority of the rainbows are caught in the summer near the head gates. The bow flows into the lake at the headgates, which explains the trout. There’s no reason there wouldn’t be a few browns too.

[Mad Caddy]

Has anyone got a recent update on ice thickness at Spray Lakes?

[Alberta Bigbore]

Lac ste anne today 9 inches ice where i was today.... lots of pike.. slow for everything else

[Fisherdan]

11” of ok-ish ice at Chain Lakes.

[Snazyevey]

Originally Posted by fishn_palmer

Anyone been out to Upper or Lower K. Hows the ice? Thanks

Was there two weeks ago. Hardly any ice at interlakes, unsafe to fish. Went over to the boat launch at upper. 5-6 inches there.

Lower K was about 5-6 inches around interlakes as well. Should be good to go now. I'll know more tomorrow as I have some friends going.

[Snazyevey]

Originally Posted by Mad Caddy

Has anyone got a recent update on ice thickness at Spray Lakes?

Last I read somewhere it was 8 inches all the way across. Check the road report. Highway to the lake was closed for avalanche as of yesterday I believe (until further notice).

[graybeard]

Can anyone comment on CVR?

I read about Newell and they are fairly close in distance, so the ice conditions should be similarly close to each other.....Comments please?

Thanks,

[depolloc]

Anyone been out to Ghost (by Cochrane)? Thx

[snowman160]

Went to Carson yesterday,bout 8” of ice with 3” floodwater on top an 10-12” of snow on top of that.very litl people activity on the lake,fished two hours an not a hit..fished 15 fow Tryed several baits..no luck

[curtz]

Anyone been to Long Lake by Boyle, wondering about ice thickness. Want to take dad out, was going to drive on with my tacoma.

[walleye guy]

Was out Long Lake last Friday about 12" ice, (2"white 10" clear ) not much snow.We walked out,nobody driving on that I saw. A few hammer handles nothing else.

[curtz]

Originally Posted by walleye guy

Was out Long Lake last Friday about 12" ice, (2"white 10" clear ) not much snow.We walked out,nobody driving on that I saw. A few hammer handles nothing else.

Thanks