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Old 09-02-2015, 06:44 PM
schmedlap schmedlap is offline
 
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Default Its been years

but having fished various stretches (from Hwy. 16 area, north of La Nonne, around Barrhead and Westlock) some years back, by far the best stretch for eyes and pike, numbers and size, was from Flatbush area (there is a road crossing and bridge at a Twp road south of the campground on the highway -maybe Twp. 660?), to the confluence with the Athabasca. Most of that stretch was pretty remote and hard to access past that bridge (just a few private 4x4 tracks) back then. Maybe it still is (?). But we used to put the inflatable in at the bridge (and there was decent eye fishing right there) and float/paddle about 10 km down to the take out off a back track that an accomodating farmer/landowner let us use. Used to be some dandy deep pools full of good-sized eyes, and some weedy backwater areas with decent pike. Has it changed?
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