Joussard or Canyon Creek ? - Lesser Slave Lake

[Jawjacker]

Planing a trip to Lesser Slave Lake first week in March. Hopefully by then the fishing will turn around. Question is , Joussard or Canyon Creek? Which area would you fish? Thanks in advance guys.

[GMX]

Joussard has always been slow fishing for me in the winter if those are the options your looking at I’d head to canyon.

[blgoodbrand1]

Both can be great and both can be slow. Best to get reports right before you head up and see where it’s happening. Also it’s only a short jaunt from one to the other, so you can always hit them both


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[DOGFISH]

Hard to tell which will be best on a year like this. Too early to decide, things are supposed to pick up at Canyon Creek in February, time will tell.

[slingshotz]

We just spent this last weekend at a cabin at Canyon Creek (yes it was brutally cold!). Between the four of us and about 10 others in the other cabins over two days, there was I think ONE burbot landed. We saw some fish on the camera but almost all of them were just slowly cruising and not interested in anything at all we were offering. Might be the cold spell but we did hear that the fishing was slow the previous week too.

Maybe a warm sunny spell might bring them active again later in the month. The other problem right now is that the snow buried the lake with about 1-2 feet of snow, so you'll either need a sled or a truck with really good clearance to get anywhere off the packed down trail.

[Jawjacker]

Thanks for the feedback guys. Slow fishing seems to be Alberta wide. I heard a rumor it was do the late freeze that initiated a Shrimp and Sand Beetle surplus . The fish have plenty to eat . That's fishing. Tight lines.

[lastlatvian]

Went out last weekend and caught three lakers in under a hour, no one else on the lake. I don't think it is slow this time a year, just a little chilly on the eye balls.

[slingshotz]

Originally Posted by Jawjacker

Thanks for the feedback guys. Slow fishing seems to be Alberta wide. I heard a rumor it was do the late freeze that initiated a Shrimp and Sand Beetle surplus . The fish have plenty to eat . That's fishing. Tight lines.

That actually makes sense, at night there were what seemed to be millions of shrimp in the water. If I was a fish, I would just glide through the water with my mouth open and eat, no need to chase anything.

[blgoodbrand1]

Anyone getting steady ling’er action yet?


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