Iv been all over in the past month and I thought maybe anyone interested might like to know how some of the lakes around here are doing.
My name. Is Daniel. I fish with a friend and my fiance so we cover a lot of ground in a day at a lake.
I will start with the 2 places I visited with my better half and 17 month old son today and go from there.
Nicholas Sheran Park Pond - visit around 3 times a week when I'm off work. I'm a HD mechanic so I'm to tired to drive 30 mins to an hour after work.
The Pike is this small west lethbridge pond are very hungry this year the 3 of us and my son try a few different locations in a months with maybe between 2-4 visits a week we have landed anaverage or 15-20 pike each visit using smelts and leeches. We figure well over a hundred probably close to 200 maybe higher. The smallest was maybe 9" and biggest was 33" and weighed about 13lb and almost 12lb The browns are still in there as well as the brookies. In the month we caught 2 brookies and one was about 3lb and the other 4lb. Right as of recent the perch a very active as well had maybe 30 go after our hook when most of smelt fell off and not from personal experience but I watched one person fight a 28lb grass carp in using bread as bait. So this year 2012 nicholas sheran the pike are hungry and trout are there but very finickey the perch can be seen in schools containing 30-40 in shallow parts near the bridge.
Picture Butte Resivoir
Not biting very well. Very windy today
Landed to decent fish maybe 9-10lb for both
University of Lethbridge Pond
Gone twice and landed a 12"lb pike and friend landed a lunker 15lb also caught loads of smaller 8" - 22" pike.
Keho lake.
Went last weekend for 4 hours I landed 9 fish 8 pike 1 walleye biggest pike was 21lb smallest was 4lb annd caught by outlett canal the walleye was about 8-9lb
Friend landed 13 fish 9 pike and 4 walleye. Biggest pike was 17 pound and smallest was 6. His biggest waleye was 12lb and smallest was maybe 2.5lb
Fiance landed 5 all were pike smallest was 2lb biggest was 11lb
Park Lake
As active as nicholas shern we went early on a saturday and between the 3 of use we landed 76 pike in just under 5 hours using smelts smallest was maybe 3-4lb and biggest was 19lb friend miles landed 1 walleye and we caught 9 perch that day.
Mc.Vinnie Reservoir
As usual its a busy place was stocked with 3000 rainbows on may 18, 2012
On a sunday we pulled out around 15 trout before noon on blue/yellow powerbait with a p-rig and also had luck on pink popcorn. Most we only 11-15" keepers mostly but had 2 bigger ones they were 16" and 19" one was 4.5lb the other 6lb
Mc.quillan - dead reservoir to many scuds in that pond there are large ones I pulled a. 22" almost 9lb rainbow last year but they act like tyrell lake fish to much natural food, to over fished and not interested in what your throwing.
CPR lake - pike are nailing anything u throw at them. Jigs, smelts with hook and bobber, leeches and on occasion worms. Didn't land anything over 9lb
Chin Lake by the east end near the chute
Large fish are nailing smelts with a bobber drifting also loving spinners we only went once and landed about 20 fish in 5 hours biggest was 18lb
Police lake
Very active right now fish are nailing spinners and fly lots of action no really really big fish caught there yet largest was maybe. 19"
Kennex coulee
Biting very nice on pink popcorn or blue/yellow powerbait on a p-rig
Henderson lake
Pike very active and agressive. (Just from what I have heard)
Lake mac greggor
Very very active in past 2 weeks
Payne lake
We pulled many nice healthy trout of here few weeks ago
Sugar factory lake
Pike are very active we pulled many many 10lb and bigger fish out of there recently
Grassy lake
Hot lake right now we pulled 40 perch and 35 pike in 1 day largest pike was 22lb
Can anyone update any other lake in southern alberta and around lethbridge?
Danny - fishing for 15 years - cummins HD mechanic 6 years