Freedom55
10-31-2009, 06:20 AM
We pulled up stakes in Calgary and moved to Saskatchewan this summer and found fishing heaven. The walleye here are big, the pike are enormous and the trout have mutated into 48 lb monsters (see Konrad brothers in Saskatoon). This is the only place I've been where you are required,and I have been forced to do, to release the large walleyes and keep the small ones. The possession limits here are, of course, different than our own with a limit of 5 walleyes, only one of which can be over 55cm. We eat so much walleye now that we bought a little deep frier dedicated to fish! Favorite spot so far? Madge Lake in Duck Mountain Provincial Park. What a place! Three lakes within 5 minutes of the cabin and fish, fish, and more fish. There is a motel that also rents condos and cabins in the woods. There is a golf course across the highway as well. Mid-September at Madge, we saw the biggest damn pike that I've ever looked at caught by 2 old fellows in a vintage fibreglass skiboat converted to a fish factory by removing the the helm and engine and replacing them with an old 9.9hp tiller kicker. They had gone out on the lake on a very windy day while I futzed around in a sheltered bay. I caught walleye alright, but these guys hauled in a monster, the head of which was bigger than a Travers keeper! The first walleye that I caught was a 24" keeper and the next five were more or less the same, so they got to live another day. No small fish! Had to give up in the evening because the 5lb pike were following the jig right up to the boat, then biting it off. Great visuals, but leeches are expensive and hard to get. Bring many. Little Jackfish, 5km east, is loaded with perch and we hauled in a bucket full (8-10") the next afternoon from shore with little red spinners tipped with tiny leeches. Batka Lake is a beautiful little lake with a great ramp/dock that we got the Lund into(so did the guys with the 19.5' Lund) and we back-trolled all afternoon for small pike and the odd small 18" walleye. Going back this winter for another week of "shore lunch".
I can keep you posted if you are interested. We fish a lot around here, and would fish more if the weather would cooperate, but it ain't exactly Alberta outdoors. More like an Albertan outdoors. Dave
I can keep you posted if you are interested. We fish a lot around here, and would fish more if the weather would cooperate, but it ain't exactly Alberta outdoors. More like an Albertan outdoors. Dave