Which Alberta water would you say has the biggest walleye?

[Icehole]

My votes are:
NSR
Newel
Athabasca lake and river
Touchwood
Pinehurst
Seibert
Cold Lake
Heart Lake
Winefred


These waters have been good to me but haven't been to a few in 10yrs.

[Mitchthefisher]

NSR, SSR, Atha B and pembina river.

[laker taker2]

Cold lake

[FlyTheory]

I'd say NSR below Edmonton. Or Athabasca.

[mickeyjim]

Pick a river that has them in it

[verado eyes]

Primrose Lake Hands down

[Talking moose]

Peace River.

[AlbertaCutthroat]

Pakowki or Frank for sure

[cube]

Welcome back

[waterninja]

I vote NSR

[Gordoats26]

Gull lake has some really good ones now as far as quantity of walleye over 5 pounds I would say it's one of the best in the province. I also like Pinehurst. I would think Cold lake has some big ones to but why would you fish for walleye up there when you can slay lakers.

[1bluZebec]

PEMBINA river

[highwood]

Originally Posted by cube

Welcome back

Terrific.

[KegRiver]

The Leduc reservoir.

Sorry, may sarcasm container was getting a bit too full.

I think a lot of lakes and rivers in this province have the potential to hold huge fish. To try to guess which one holds the biggest is a fools game.

The record breaker could be lurking in a mud puddle along the highway or lounging in the middle of the biggest most remote lake in the country where no one will ever find him.

If you're only looking for conversation, how about looking at some remote lakes. Bistcho, Bison, Margret and others. Those lakes see relatively light fishing pressure, they might be fun to check out.

On the other hand, I've seen some huge Spikes come from the Peace River.
Not lately though, Since the pulp mill went into production the fish population has been dropping. It's hardly worth fishing that river these days. The Grayling are gone from the system and nobody fished for them so I expect the others will disappear completely over the next few years.

I've pulled a couple of huge eyes from Rainbow, but it's a small lake and one of the most popular lakes in the north so I expect that the potential there will drop with each passing year.

The other walleye lakes in the north never were good or haven't been for a lot of years.
Southern waters seem to me to have more and bigger fish, If I were a trophy hunter I'd look south.

[FlyTheory]

That's really sad to hear KegRiver, how has the pulp mill influenced the river? Just warm water discharge?

[cranky]

Some real hogs caught in NSR.

[ROA]

Lots of stories of huge record breaking walleye netted out of primrose.

[KegRiver]

Originally Posted by FlyTheory

That's really sad to hear KegRiver, how has the pulp mill influenced the river? Just warm water discharge?

I don't know.
The official story is that there has been no effect.

But I have fished this river since 1960, long before the pulp mill was built.
We lived less then a mile from the river so we fished it a lot, almost every day during the summer.

Before the mill, we caught fish every time we went, now we can fish for days without getting one bite. The most troubling are the Graylling. years ago there were so many that you could hear them going over the shallows in the middle of the night, now the season is closed because there are none left, and no one fished for them.
They can't blame their disappearance on fishing pressure.

I'm no scientist, even if a were I doubt I would know the answer, no one is studying the issue. The government doesn't want to know, the universities are in the south so they don't care. The fish don't have names or live in jungles. The only people who even care are uneducated hill billies like myself.

So whatever the problem, nothing is going to change and the fish will continue to disappear.

That's the way the world works. Whales, seal cubs, lions and Wolves have supporters.
Trout, Tuna, even toads have supporters, but fish in the Peace River don't matter. There is no glamour no fame in fighting for fish in the Peace River.
There is no motivation for the people who fight for conservation and the environment.

Some wonder why I am so against the animal rights and environmentalist movements.
This is why. because I see clearly what really motivates them.

If you ask them about this, why they aren't protesting for cleaning up the pulp mills in the Peace River watershed they will tell you they had no idea, that no one ever told them a problem exists. But nothing will happen and ten years from now if you ask them again they will tell you that they had no idea, that no one told them.

The Peace will die as a fishable river. That's just the way the world works.

Some battles are worth fighting, others are unwinnable.

[FlyTheory]

Thanks for that Keg, that's honestly a heart-wrenching story. Fishing pressure is definitely not the one to blame, and yet that's the main scapegoat in these situations. Too many industries disrupt the areas critical to the waterway's well being and claim ignorance.
Yet your story would be seen as "small scale" and "not a big deal" if you look at the Athabasca oil-sands discharge. No changes have been made even though there are significant impacts to the wildlife. Truly is sad. Hopefully things change someday in the near future.

[Newellknik]

No doubt in my mind that the north has the biggest walleye
Lakes. The southern ditches not so much .....
The worse part about Frank is that it has one of the poorest
Boat launches in the province . But the concession stand has
Burgers to die for !

[mac1983]

Originally Posted by KegRiver

I don't know.
The official story is that there has been no effect.

But I have fished this river since 1960, long before the pulp mill was built.
We lived less then a mile from the river so we fished it a lot, almost every day during the summer.

Before the mill, we caught fish every time we went, now we can fish for days without getting one bite. The most troubling are the Graylling. years ago there were so many that you could hear them going over the shallows in the middle of the night, now the season is closed because there are none left, and no one fished for them.
They can't blame their disappearance on fishing pressure.

I'm no scientist, even if a were I doubt I would know the answer, no one is studying the issue. The government doesn't want to know, the universities are in the south so they don't care. The fish don't have names or live in jungles. The only people who even care are uneducated hill billies like myself.

So whatever the problem, nothing is going to change and the fish will continue to disappear.

That's the way the world works. Whales, seal cubs, lions and Wolves have supporters.
Trout, Tuna, even toads have supporters, but fish in the Peace River don't matter. There is no glamour no fame in fighting for fish in the Peace River.
There is no motivation for the people who fight for conservation and the environment.

Some wonder why I am so against the animal rights and environmentalist movements.
This is why. because I see clearly what really motivates them.

If you ask them about this, why they aren't protesting for cleaning up the pulp mills in the Peace River watershed they will tell you they had no idea, that no one ever told them a problem exists. But nothing will happen and ten years from now if you ask them again they will tell you that they had no idea, that no one told them.

The Peace will die as a fishable river. That's just the way the world works.

Some battles are worth fighting, others are unwinnable.

I hear ya Keg, i grew up along the smokey river downstream of the pulp mill.
good fishing in the river till the day the mill went online. the stink was incredible, and the river turned to sludge P $ G destroyed the river. It has improved though no smell, the river dosent look like sludge anymore.there is ok fishing in it but not like the old days hope it comes back. Am not an anti the mill brought a lot of work to the area and helped alot of us out in some hard times up here early 70's.

[Icehole]

Originally Posted by ROA

Lots of stories of huge record breaking walleye netted out of primrose.

Primrose is off limits isn't it? I worked on the bombing range/prison and the inspector said they were night fishing on it?

[Ranch11]

Cold lake.

Pm me and I'll send gps waypoints.

[cujo1969]

newell,mcgregor produce good size.

[.243dude]

Originally Posted by Newellknik

No doubt in my mind that the north has the biggest walleye
Lakes. The southern ditches not so much .....
The worse part about Frank is that it has one of the poorest
Boat launches in the province . But the concession stand has
Burgers to die for !

x2 those burgers are the best! the boat launch is poor, but man there is some hogs in frank.

[Brayden3131]

My buddy caught a 14 1/2 pounder out of the little red where it meets the Reddeer River

[Mackinaw]

Moose lake

Mack

[wmw9]

I've been a member on here for 5/6 years and from what I've seen Wayne Christie always has huge walleye in his pictures. Wherever he's fishing seems to have the most consistent big walleye fishing in Alberta.

[ol whitey]

Big eye's caught every fall out of the Red Deer River.

[jim summit]

The peace river treats me good, walleye to 12lbs and pike over 20lbs.