Water clearing up, but rough on Sunday
Was up at the lake on Sunday. Breakers about 30 feet wide visible mid lake, steady onto shore and over the dock.
Water was clear, but very rough. Easily 4 - 5 foot breakers that you could surf on. Water is cooling down.
Neighbour did get out Saturday and had a great time off the water plant with a spinner rig and dew worms trolling on a bottom bouncer.
I just spent the time digging potatoes, pulling onions, picking tomatoes, and trying to put roofing tin on the wood shed, which was an adventure.
Maybe this weekend.
Wind was easily 80 - 100 km / hr all day long out of the northwest. Stuff washed up on the shore way up. Dock is completely clean of bird crap.
As for the water quality on a lot of Alberta lakes, we have had a decade of low precipitation, and a lot of drainage creeks and rivers did not flow out of our lakes. Some like Pigeon and Wabamun are bowls and all that happens is evaporation to concentrate the solids even further. Some have so many beaver dams and poorly place road culverts that there is no outflow anyways.
But yes, certain farmers doing a winter pasture on a hill that flows down into Baptiste Lake with 400 head being swath fed, create a water quality problem when it rains in the spring. (Just as an example).
Whitefish should be moving into the shallows now, so I am hopeful to try jigging a Kastmaster this weekend after we get the walleye out of the way.
Drewski
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