NSR riparian east of edmonton
I just fished the nsr around smokey lake for a couple days we put by hairy hill and went upstream for 40km and it was nice to see the entire south bank and most of the north bank riparian habitat intact. Lots of mature spruce, pine, big poplar lots of golden eagles, osprey etc. I had never fished that stretch before and it was good to see. A few too much algae though. Downstream of the fort you seem to get a lot of that green slime on your hooks not so much in the city or upstream.
It won't be long before the athabasca river had some sort of a dam put on it around hinton to manage the water flowing down to mcmuarry etc. It is the last major river in the province that does not have a dam on it. The battle has a sprillway at forestburg, the oldman dam, the glennifer dam, the bow has bassano and the peace has the one in bc by fort st. john. Managing our fresh water is the most important issue facing our province not micro managing a couple walleye here or there.
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