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01-03-2016, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Fort Saskatchewan
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Ice
Was at the narrow on Long lake by Boyle yesterday, 15" of good ice, about 4" of snow on top. Kept 1 9" perch for a snack. fishing was slow. plenty of vehicles on the ice all over the lake.
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01-03-2016, 10:37 AM
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Burnstick Lake is 12-14 inches of ice. Lots of trucks driving on.
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01-03-2016, 10:44 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
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Keho Lake
Fished Keho on Jan. 1st., 12"+ of ice at the southeast boat launch. Landed 1 pike and had a couple more hits.
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01-03-2016, 12:05 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Strathmore/Calgary
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15" at Crawling Valley
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01-03-2016, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Bentley
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Seen a moron driving a one ton hauling a 5th wheel and hot-tub yesterday on Gull.
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01-03-2016, 05:09 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Strathmore/Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus81
Seen a moron driving a one ton hauling a 5th wheel and hot-tub yesterday on Gull.
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I'd have paid to see that pic.
Like 5th wheel flat deck trailer with a working hot-tub on it?
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01-03-2016, 06:09 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Bentley
Posts: 93
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PlayDoh
I'd have paid to see that pic.
Like 5th wheel flat deck trailer with a working hot-tub on it?
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He was hauling a flat deck trailer behind the 5th wheel which had a hot tub on it. Sorry no picture,.
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01-03-2016, 09:50 PM
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Location: St Albert
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13-15 inches at Skeleton on the 30th
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01-04-2016, 12:01 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Calgary
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Badger
2016-01-02: Badger Lake - East Outlet - 12 to 14" ice. Couple trucks on the ice; we walked.
Sunny, -5°C, calm. Gorgeous day but pike fishing extremely slow.
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01-04-2016, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: St Albert
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12-13 inches at Star today, fishing was slow.
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01-04-2016, 08:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 6gunner
13-15 inches at Skeleton on the 30th
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Be careful on Lakes in the Boyle area, heard a truck went in on Saturday at Chump Lake between Skeleton and North Buck. Luckily only in shallow water so they can recover it easy enough but reports of 13" ice all over that lake and they broke through a spot only 7" thick. Do your homework everybody and identify any potential current areas and proceed with upmost caution. The cold weather coming in now will surely help a lot but the ice sheets on a number of lakes have varying thicknesses and it's not uniform throughout. Stay safe all and err on the side of caution
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01-04-2016, 09:35 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
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S..t i knew i forgot something last trip. Was my hot tub....
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01-04-2016, 10:10 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus81
Seen a moron driving a one ton hauling a 5th wheel and hot-tub yesterday on Gull.
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The ice was only 10-12inches at the north end where I was! Not a fish to be seen either👎
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01-04-2016, 10:53 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: St Albert
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PerchBuster
Be careful on Lakes in the Boyle area, heard a truck went in on Saturday at Chump Lake between Skeleton and North Buck. Luckily only in shallow water so they can recover it easy enough but reports of 13" ice all over that lake and they broke through a spot only 7" thick. Do your homework everybody and identify any potential current areas and proceed with upmost caution. The cold weather coming in now will surely help a lot but the ice sheets on a number of lakes have varying thicknesses and it's not uniform throughout. Stay safe all and err on the side of caution
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I travelled from the boat launch to the narrows checking the thickness at several spots along he way and the thickness was 13-15 inches at each point. I was in my Ranger but there were several trucks on the ice. The ice may be thinner than that but I didn't find it.
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01-05-2016, 06:51 AM
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Pigeon has changed a lot with little to no snow. I measured nothing under 15 inches and saw 16 more commonly. Very hard ice too. I tried both North and South sides of the lake. Even found 18 inches on the South side.
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01-05-2016, 07:21 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 6gunner
I travelled from the boat launch to the narrows checking the thickness at several spots along he way and the thickness was 13-15 inches at each point. I was in my Ranger but there were several trucks on the ice. The ice may be thinner than that but I didn't find it.
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I believe it was at the west end of the lake that he dropped the front end in. A shallow water spot but must be some current there.
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01-05-2016, 07:52 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Edmonton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 6gunner
I travelled from the boat launch to the narrows checking the thickness at several spots along he way and the thickness was 13-15 inches at each point. I was in my Ranger but there were several trucks on the ice. The ice may be thinner than that but I didn't find it.
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I always wanted to try that lake but usually drive by and end up at Buck. Is there any keeper size to the perch there or are they smaller than 8" ?
I wonder how the ice is at Buck ?
Was at Skeleton last week and the ice is about 12" Lots of 6" and smaller perch. Saw a few on the ice in the 8 - 10" mark but it was slow fishing. No Perch for us.
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Gonna get me a 16" perch.
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01-05-2016, 09:08 AM
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Pigeon west side
Pigeon west side by PP 17" solid.
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01-05-2016, 10:17 AM
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Pigeon north side, just outside of mulhurst Bay was pretty consistent at ~16-18" of clear, only found one spot around 14.5" but 5 holes around it in a ten foot circle were of the first rough measurements. Measured ice in 10fow all the way out to 28.
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01-05-2016, 11:30 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Edmonton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim473
I always wanted to try that lake but usually drive by and end up at Buck. Is there any keeper size to the perch there or are they smaller than 8" ?
I wonder how the ice is at Buck ?
Was at Skeleton last week and the ice is about 12" Lots of 6" and smaller perch. Saw a few on the ice in the 8 - 10" mark but it was slow fishing. No Perch for us.
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I've fished Chump a number of times over the years, both ice and open water
Had luck with keeper size perch 10+ years ago (8-10") but last few years, 6-7" seems to be the norm
Lots of perch in that lake, same with Pike, most of the perch seem to be stunted though from what we saw on our cameras a couple weeks ago. Biggest perch we caught all day was maybe 5"-6"?
I did catch a decent little Pike though, no measure or weight, but I'd guess 3lb'er
Ice was 14.5" where we drilled, walked out about 200 yards toward the island from the public beach, 15 FOW
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01-05-2016, 04:14 PM
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Beauvais had about 6 inches of clear and 8 inches of junk ice today.
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01-06-2016, 04:03 PM
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Location: Calgary
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CVR ice
Heading to CVR tommorow....Plan on driving on the west side. Based on the cold snap and being out a couple weeks ago, I would think the ice is around 15" or more. Can anyone confirm or deny this
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01-06-2016, 04:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PlayDoh
15" at Crawling Valley
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Was when I was there
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01-06-2016, 05:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PlayDoh
Was when I was there
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Thanks...Anyone driving on the west side?
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01-06-2016, 06:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kevinhits
Thanks...Anyone driving on the west side?
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I read someone drove across, I'd think it's safe. It's around shores where you'll find any variances, yet CV has been pretty consistent.
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01-06-2016, 06:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kevinhits
Thanks...Anyone driving on the west side?
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Fished out from the campground on Jan 1st. My buddy drove his half ton on. There was probably 8 vehicle's driving around on there. I wasn't driving my 1 ton on. Ice was 12inchs out from campground in 6 feet and 12 feet of water. I used my tape measure to check thickness.
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01-06-2016, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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Thanks guys....
Taking the 3\4 ton out for the first time this ice fishing season based on snow coming tommorow and driving on through the West oil lease roads....I will not be driving across the lake whatsoever, but staying within 100 yards of drive on point
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01-07-2016, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Lethbridge Alberta
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Anyone been down to Tilley B? A friend and I are looking to try out ice fishing for the first time this weekend possibly. We bought a couple hand augers off the local buy sell for cheap and another guy we know has a tent, tip ups etc we can borrow lol. Any advice or tips for a couple noobs? Much appreciated.
Joe
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01-07-2016, 11:37 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Edmonton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SNAPFisher
Pigeon has changed a lot with little to no snow. I measured nothing under 15 inches and saw 16 more commonly. Very hard ice too. I tried both North and South sides of the lake. Even found 18 inches on the South side.
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I also found ice was averaged around 16" however 2" of that is frozen flood water or "white ice". Did find ice that was only 12" (including 2" of frozen flood water or "white ice") on the south side of Pigeon. One should still be cautious.
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01-07-2016, 06:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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CVR was about 18" today....Nice to drive on for the first time...Had a few pike come by and had two of them take my smelt and dropped it...Had a minnow on a Tube jig and thought he had it, seen him take a swallow and missed him as well. None landed and had one walleye come swim by and not interested...
Wind chill sucked today
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