made it out to Baptiste lake, WOW! what a day! The bite is definatley on right now. 34 fish (pike and walters) between 7:30am and 3:00pm between my brother and I. there was wind, rain, and cold, which is bad for us but great for fishing. Started out from the dock at 7:30 in two-three feet of water. Grass and lillies on both sides of the dock. just a plain jane red devil and the jacks came out to greet us. asserting their dominance of their territtory we accidently snagged 5 jacks that day because they bump the lure and with braid it feels like a bite so... set the hook and... there u go, labotomy by hook. luckily it takes a lot more than a little hook to the head to fell these gators. we caught pike all day and if you cast off the otherside of the boat you hook on to walleye. that lake has come back with a vengeance, lets hope people try hard to keep that gem going for a while. our biggest of the day was a healthy 10.2 pound with about 4 other pikes in that range just a couple cm shorter so we didnt bother wasting time since they were biting almost as fast as you could get your line back out at times. there were a couple of guys pettering around in a 9 foot aluminum with a 9.9 on the back, from manitoba. really nice guys to talk to and they had a fantastic day. they pulled a 90cm jack right behind us and on that same pass they pulled a huge walleye, from where i was standing it looked to be about 9 pounds itself! hopefully they had proper tags cuz i didnt see the walter go back in. but maybe it did go in, i definately dont want to accuse someone without knowing for sure, like I said they were really nice guys and probably did the right thing. I absolutley encourage anyone to try that lake again. It had been 6 years since I last visited because they had all that trouble with that nasty algae. here are some pics and hopefully I can load the videos i have somewhere of the jacks going crazy for my topwater tries. it was awesome to see the fish come out of the water so aggressively at our lures. cheers
oops pics r too big
but i will come back during the labour day classic and post the pics. Go Edmonton!
Baptiste Lake ** w/pics finally!**
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