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02-27-2017, 09:35 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Sherwood Park, Ab
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any updates from the weekend? still pretty slow?
buddy and I are heading up Thursday evening and camping on ice and fishing till Monday afternoon.
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02-27-2017, 12:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Fort Saskatchewan ab
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Was out this weekend.. was very slow out there. I'd stay away from the fresh heaves/cracks that formed a couple weeks ago in a truck anyways.. A truck put his front tires through out there this weekend trying to cross by Garnett point
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03-02-2017, 08:46 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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Can anyone tell me if there's another access on the east side maybe Cold river campground? Thanks
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03-02-2017, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: sykvan lake
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Is all of French bay accessible until you hit the main lake?
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03-02-2017, 06:40 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Fort Saskatchewan ab
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jigapoolza
Can anyone tell me if there's another access on the east side maybe Cold river campground? Thanks
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There is but it's quite a long drive around to get to it I think. But never accessed there to tell you what it's like over there.
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03-02-2017, 06:41 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Fort Saskatchewan ab
Posts: 536
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaylive
Is all of French bay accessible until you hit the main lake?
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Inside French bay your fine
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03-02-2017, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: sykvan lake
Posts: 25
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pikehunter1989
Inside French bay your fine
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Thanks man. Cheers
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03-02-2017, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Bonnyville
Posts: 183
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The ice heave is just past the mouth of French bay, it is very visible from a distance
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03-02-2017, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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Thanks Pikehunter I might have to go for a drive and check it out sometime.
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03-04-2017, 05:35 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: sykvan lake
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Anyone have any luck today? We got skunked so far. Things aren't looking good
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03-04-2017, 07:19 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Spruce Grove
Posts: 370
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaylive
Anyone have any luck today? We got skunked so far. Things aren't looking good
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We got the middle finger from the fish today too. Moved 7 times. That wind was crazy. My car did not like driving through all that snow.
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03-05-2017, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Sherwood Park, Ab
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Yep pretty slow yesterday. We got 4 from noon to 6pm. Then lost two and landed one from 8pm to 10pm. Friday night got 8 burbot then last night none. Nothing so far today other then small burb when i first woke up
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03-05-2017, 09:51 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Alberta
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Very slow so far on Cold lake, marked a few fish, had some followers but no takers, hopefully it picks up soon, lots of fresh snow, ice looks to be around 30" may try for some walleye later. Cheers
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03-05-2017, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2012
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Anyone able to cross the heave with a truck north of provincial park launch?
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03-05-2017, 05:07 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Edm.
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Was out on the lake also this weekend . Fish seemed like they were not hungry
Then my LX7 , that was set on graph sonar started to show bait fish in the centre of the screen ,then it got thicker and thicker ,from the bottom to the top of my screen.
Thought my sonar was failing or getting interference .
Looked down the hole .....it was just full of bait fish !
They seemed to be around 10 inches long and the top half was dark,almost black.
Not sure if they were splake. Have caught a few lakers in the past that had a fish in their mouth that looked like a large smelt . Just not sure what these were.
Kinda makes sense now why the bite is slow, as this went on all day until I went deeper to 100ft.
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03-06-2017, 06:09 AM
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Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 1,200
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Quote:
Originally Posted by -JR-
Was out on the lake also this weekend . Fish seemed like they were not hungry
Then my LX7 , that was set on graph sonar started to show bait fish in the centre of the screen ,then it got thicker and thicker ,from the bottom to the top of my screen.
Thought my sonar was failing or getting interference .
Looked down the hole .....it was just full of bait fish !
They seemed to be around 10 inches long and the top half was dark,almost black.
Not sure if they were splake. Have caught a few lakers in the past that had a fish in their mouth that looked like a large smelt . Just not sure what these were.
Kinda makes sense now why the bite is slow, as this went on all day until I went deeper to 100ft.
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Not splake. They would have been Tulibee or even juvenile whitefish.
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03-06-2017, 04:09 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Alberta
Posts: 5,385
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A ton of snow out here today. Hoping not to get stuck on the way out, marking lots. Got a double header which was cool. Quite a few bites. It's a whiteout, can't really see to much outside the tent.
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03-07-2017, 01:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Bonnyville
Posts: 183
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BGSH
A ton of snow out here today. Hoping not to get stuck on the way out, marking lots. Got a double header which was cool. Quite a few bites. It's a whiteout, can't really see to much outside the tent.
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You must have been in the Ford half ton with the big Eskimo tent on the north side of french bay, I did not see anybody else. It was a total white out yesterday, could not see 10 feet in front of my skidoo, fishing was good once I got to where I was headed, hope you made it off ok!
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03-07-2017, 01:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Edmonton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jkbloom
You must have been in the Ford half ton with the big Eskimo tent on the north side of french bay, I did not see anybody else. It was a total white out yesterday, could not see 10 feet in front of my skidoo, fishing was good once I got to where I was headed, hope you made it off ok!
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That was them. They got off safe after 4 nights out there.
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03-07-2017, 01:58 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Sherwood Park, Ab
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jkbloom
You must have been in the Ford half ton with the big Eskimo tent on the north side of french bay, I did not see anybody else. It was a total white out yesterday, could not see 10 feet in front of my skidoo, fishing was good once I got to where I was headed, hope you made it off ok!
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Yes that was us, we stayed from Thursday night till Monday evening! Yes it was quite some weather out this weekend. we did make it off, some of the drifts were up to my bumpers. we did okay all weekend probably ten lakers a day and a fair amount of burbot at night. managed one decent laker at 32.5" on sunday. was very cool I watched it chase me up on my lx7, so stood up to see if I could spot it. I watched it smoke my jig right under my feet, very cool experience.
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03-08-2017, 10:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At the end of the Thirsty Beaver Trail, Pinsky lake, Alberta.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vigsy
Yes that was us, we stayed from Thursday night till Monday evening! Yes it was quite some weather out this weekend. we did make it off, some of the drifts were up to my bumpers. we did okay all weekend probably ten lakers a day and a fair amount of burbot at night. managed one decent laker at 32.5" on sunday. was very cool I watched it chase me up on my lx7, so stood up to see if I could spot it. I watched it smoke my jig right under my feet, very cool experience.
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Heard the weather was wild...-25 now ...crazy eh.
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03-09-2017, 05:31 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Edm.
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Had some good snow drifts. Lake only had 4 in inches max of snow on the lake when we got there. That sure changed as it snowed more.
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03-10-2017, 09:37 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Hi heading up this weekend for a few days. What is the access like and the heave situation? Can you get on at marina? Out to garnet? Thanks
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03-11-2017, 06:03 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Edm.
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pm sent
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03-13-2017, 04:24 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: GRAND PRAIRIE
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YEP But I'm going to try once this year ,should be able to hit some of my old spots as no trucks have been there this year I'm guessing, cant wait 1 good laker is still worth it
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03-13-2017, 06:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Edm.
Posts: 5,019
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Originally Posted by splake0
What is wrong with you!
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He is just trying to cause trouble again , as he always does.
Last edited by catnthehat; 03-13-2017 at 07:21 PM.
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03-17-2017, 04:49 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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Has the bite improved up there lately?
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03-17-2017, 05:59 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: GRAND PRAIRIE
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03-17-2017, 05:59 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: GRAND PRAIRIE
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Got a couple this morning pretty slow afternoon
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03-17-2017, 06:14 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Edm.
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Hey Whelen, How deeps the snow? Hard to tell from your picture.
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