Coal Lake

[Hooker]

Couldn't find a recent post about Coal Lake by Wetaskiwin. Has the ice gone yet? Thanks in advance for any info.

[pipercub17]

Not open tell may15
Ice is off

[Hooker]

Thank you. Had no intentions of coming before that.

[Talking moose]

Coal was very slow all winter.

[Hooker]

I read that the low water caused a high mortality in the pike population a couple of years back. Give it a couple of more years and the population will build back up.

[Lefty-Canuck]

Low water, hyper eutrophic, shallow...over fishing and sadly lots or pressure and poaching.

Coal is not the lake it used to be!

A couple years back dead suckers and pike lined the shores...I still can't believe they follow 3 over 63cm regs....

LC

[bushnell]

Coal has dropped a lot in the last 10 years. Not the lake it used to be

[Sooner]

Originally Posted by bushnell

Coal has dropped a lot in the last 10 years. Not the lake it used to be

I remember lots of people saying how good it used to be. With the weir on one end keeping the level up what happened to this lake? I know years ago I fished the outlet a couple times in the spring. Was always fun to try and land a pike with 10 other lines in the water lol.

[Sigmet]

Not sure what it used to be like but went out today and caught 2-3 lb. pike for a couple hours straight, absolutely fantastic. The lake is full of green algae already which is gross but the fishing is still fun.