Coal Lake

[Mittyrocks]

Had lots of success at Coal this year. Didnt think there were big fish until my buddy reeled this in.

[Mittyrocks]

Coal Lake 14lb jack

[BeeGuy]

hey nice gator!

[Lefty-Canuck]

Nice fish!....the problem with Coal is the quality of fish has gone down because most of those big ones are kept. (limit of 3 over 63cm) There are lots of small ones but that lake is headed for a collapse because all the breeders are removed.

The limit and/or size needs to be revised there or things are going to go down hill fast....

LC

[FishingFrenzy]

Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck

Nice fish!....the problem with Coal is the quality of fish has gone down because most of those big ones are kept. (limit of 3 over 63cm) There are lots of small ones but that lake is headed for a collapse because all the breeders are removed.

The limit and/or size needs to be revised there or things are going to go down hill fast....

LC

Not to mention the poachers in the brown mini-van


Seriously though, that is a NICE coal lake pike. Lefty pretty much summed up whats wrong with that lake. IMO if they had a zero limit for a couple years or 1 under 63 or something along those lines, the lake would be able to recover and become a really good pike fishery.

They need much stricter regs on any lake near the city if they expect it to last long. Not many fish holding bodies of water in AB and most of them are poorly managed.

Maybe I should move to Sask.

[great white whaler]

central alberta ,the fishing here as to be the worst there is' in canada ,period .

[Alberta Bigbore]

Nice looking pike....congrats

[e40water12]

WOW awsome fish man. I think its crap when people over fish a nice lake. If the counts are low. It should be an automatic catch and release. If that They should hire people to enforce the policy.


Just my 2 cents.

[Lab83]

I'm new to the forum here but wanted to share my pic of my 17lb jack caught at coal lake last summer. For me those big guys are not good eating anyways so back into the water he/she went!<a href="http://s876.photobucket.com/albums/ab323/JenLab83/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_0416.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab323/JenLab83/IMG_0416.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

[Lab83]

Lets try that again!

[great white whaler]

Originally Posted by Lab83

Lets try that again!

That's one big red tail ,,i hooked a 16 pounder there last year,,,i usually release 98 % of the pike i catch.

[ThunderBolt]

Both nice fish. All years I have been going there I have yet to catch one that big!