Anyone fish today. How was the surface water. How thick was the ice

Ice Report: 20 in

Hey how's the surface water out there

Rodeopunk

Thanks for responding! Which side of the lake is that? I’ve only fished near the permanent shacks on the East side

Alberta.fishing I was near the gas station about 60 ft from shore. Went last weekend and caught a few nice perch and 3 baby jack.

Rodeopunk, where about were you fishing?

Anyone mind giving a guy some direction to find the whites

Great perch fishing in 6 ft of water. Caught limit in 3 hrs.

Ice Report: 24 in

Horrible who ever left 2 burbot by the river bend resort area just sitting ontop of the ice

Caught 20+ perch today before noon. Was a fun day out in the wind storm!

Alberta.fishing- was there on Monday and where I was had 20"of ice, fishing was... I got skunked, lots of perch and some pike all day on camera. But I spent most of my day trying for perch, all the little perch that were not much bigger than a minnow were all over my hook, but the bigger ones showed no interest. And had a few pike take my line but got off. Buddy caught a nice sized pike, 75cm and fat, 6.2kg which is close to 14lbs

How thick is the ice currently and how's the fishing been here?

Lordofthefish- lucky for me using my fishing camera and my other rod I was able to fish out my rod and rod holder, especially sense that rod was only a few weeks old and $50 which is a little pricey as far as ice fishing rods go, and the rod holder is the berkley thicker more heavy duty ones that I haven't seen around anymore. Only caught one fish that day which was the one on the line of the rod that went under, but I was just happy with getting my rod back lol other wise would have been not only a bad day of fishing but an expensive one lol

Ice Report: 14 in
14-16 inches on the east side in 16-25FOW

Verjario ... I wish I was there to watch that story! I have friend who lost a fishing rod last season as well. It's a good laugh!

Have the perch left Alberta. The ones you can see on the camera are not biting. Why?

Lots of perch on camera. Light line and tiny, small jig with maggots. The bite is light. Hand line best. Fished in 30 feet of water. Caught 12 small perch. Took home 4.

Don't know what's going on with lac la nonne, 2 weeks ago we had close to 20 jack in the day, last Sunday had 10, and today 2 between me and buddy and the perch all over the camera but just not biting on anything we try. And my own stupidity I didn't put enough weight in my bucket and a jack took my whole rod and holder down the hole, but luckily for my camera and had auger to punch a couple extra holes I was able to fish them both back out with my other rod lol, and the best part is when I fished my rod out and got it out of the hole, the jack was still on my line, and that was the only one I caught all day. Otherwise I probably would have had been skunked today

Lac la nonne done, four pitiful pike and one see threw perch in 4 moves

They seem not to be interested in anything . I even tried cheese worms maggots mealworms minnow heads and nothing.

What does everyone use for perch? Yesterday seen lots on the camera, but doesn't matter what I tried. They didn't even nibble at it

Ice Report: 14 in
Plus 8 today ice good melting water in wheel tracks fishing fair for pike.

No giant perch there not even biting . As for burbot nope haven't heard of anyone . Seen a beast on cam though

Just wondering._Is there any giant perch?

Anyone catch burbot here lately?

Yeah there nice sized

Haniel- yes, was there Saturday and had 18" of nice solid ice

Good sized jack in deadmeat lake?

Are u driving in the lake

Hey Verjario dried meat was great for me if ta wanna go hit me up here .

Still good fishing in this lake again this year, a bit of a slow start getting here at 7:30, but came noon and got 4 one right after the other, just setting my one rod in the water and setting the jaw jacker and they are hammering the bait before im even finished setting it. Nice size to average about 8lbs 63-66cm

How is deadmeat lake? Been thinking about checking it out

I live in camrose and have fished driedmeat for years..... and years and years. Have never seen anyone catch a walleye there, nor have I ever seen one on camera.

And dried meat has walleye even though it's not on the regulations. I might even hit lac sante in the storm for burbot I'm up in the air about where I'm.going but I know I have to go fish this 3 day not on ice is driving me into watching soap operas with the better half

Yeah bud that is right and it is me .lol small world . I'm thinking of heading either to bangs lake or driedmeat tomorrow. Likes the idea of 3 pike at bangs lake and maybe the perch there are not as theiving lol.

Redneckfishnalbertan- is the entrance to the lake by willowbend resort the again this year? And are you possibly the same guy I was talking to about lac la nonne at the cabelas on manning telling me Abbott how you were fishing right in that area and the perch were stealing are your bait that's why you were picking up some smaller hooks for perch

Fish regs say pike, perch, walley, burbot and I believe lake white. Though I have only even caught pike and in the more shallow had perch biting at my bait

Can only really see the bottom I would say at 10ft or less, even 10ft im not even sure if you would really see it

I'm fishing in 20 ft if water I dont really see the bottom.

How clear is the lake, can you see the bottom when your ice fishing at any depth? Just jack and perch?

Ice is fine bud was there the other day had no issues good 14 inches in the RV bay.

How's the ice? Heard their were some wet spots to watch for

Its harmless and usually comes off hen cleaning. Its white nw but turns black it's some kinda parasite. I have not noticed them.on the perch I have caught mind tou I only caught 1. Hope this helps

Any one notice all the little white spots on the perch , I wonder are they safe to eat ? I’m kinda creeped out by this

Was out today seen lots of perch not to bad in size but they ain't biting. Caught a nice pike about 4 lbs released him with a big kiss .

Great ice conditions trucks all over nailed 2 nice pike at least 70cm released perch are there but there bait thiefs .

A good spot me and a friend found there last year, right in front of where the willowbend resort docks our, where all the trailers our. Anywhere between 80-100 feet off shore and we were nailing them consistently everytime we went out, between the 2 of us, 15-30 jack. This year we our trying out some other lakes first