Went out April 10. Probably fished out of Cath-em holes - thanks. But not a fish. Winter killed - what a shamefull waste. Amazing what one Aerator would do for a pond this size.

Went out today to fish drilled my holes dropped my camera down seen a lot of dead trout on the bottom from 1 hole I could see 15 dead not cool to long of a winter lots of winterkill

15 inches of ice, seen a bunch of trout near bottom on cam, no bites yet though.

About a foot of ice

Any ice reports? Thanks!

Does anyone know if it

fisherdude how many did you catch

Used little pink power bait maggots on a little spinner and the trout loved that

The stocking trucks just arrived :)

Anyone no if ice is off yet ???

Went out fishing today didn't have much luck for the morning and the rest of the day. On the way out some people told me that Pink power bait and anything pink will work in the pond. I tried cheese slice worms and shrimp and nothing no bites. I drilled a hole by shore and it's 24" thick and I drilled another hole near the middle of the lake and it's 18" thick so if you stick closer to the shore it's the safest to go around the pond you'll be fine.

Anybody eat the trout out of this place? My smoker wants some...

Caught a few 12 inch rainbows about 10 am... Quite a few hits
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Ice Report: 12 in
We were 100 yards south of the white railed dock

Ice Report: 6 in

Ice Report: 9 in
Stay warm ! And good luck !

How was the fishing? Any action?

Ice Report: 9 in
Good luck!

How thick is the ice, and how has the fishing been recently?

Fished this dam for 11 hours, 1 fish. Very dissapointing day, way overfished. The gophers enjoyed the bait more then any fish there. If you enjoy fishing this is your spot, if you enjoy catching continue driving.

Caught a 14" sucker in 2 hours. Lake seems kinda slow these days. Use to be really good about 4 years ago but has slowed down significantly.

no gas motors allowed only electric on any trout pond

Any one know about motors on the trout ponds?

how many inches?

Lots of small suckers

Is there any sucker fish in here? That's what I've been hearing?

Was out today and yesterday got lots of bites from shore by the old big boat launch. Caught a 12 inch today and a 9 inch yesterday on pink power bait.

Anyone fishing today how's the bite ?

5 9-14 inch rainbow. 1hour
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Caught 12 on a dry fly today

Had a great day caught 28 all released

I was on the pond Sunday and we had about 40 fish on by the end of the day. got a nice 2.5 lb rainbow. Best day of fishing in a while

I was out today for and hour in my 10ft Jon boat caught 4 rainbows. Nice day to get out on the lake I was trolling with a gold panther Martan spinner

Went out today with my son's (April 17th, Noon). Oldest son got a strike on his second cast then nothing after that. A lot if people and a lot of small boats. Good place to fish but we probably showed up at the wrong time.

Anyone been out yet this spring? Was there any winter kill? Also when does the pond usually get stocked?

Have any one fishing there lately? And how is the ice in there? Thx

been out a couple times really slow! lots of suckers!

Anyone been out???

Good fishing on east side of lake caught 5 nice rainbows 13-14 in long caught on mealworms

wind and rain but lots of action
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Thank you

Electric motors only.

I tried to mak sense of that site but couldn't so I asked here

Here's a website for boat regulations. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-2008-120/

Does anyone know the vessel regulations like what's not allowed for boat motors etc? Thank you in advance

Had a very good time on the Lake on yeaterday June 14 caught a ton my buddy and I limited out in 3 hour trolling our fly lines with a sink tip and full sinking fly line with a size 14 maroon red tail and all of green for the body of the fly with the brown hackling red thread

Does anybody fish here with trout worms?

She's hot right now feeding of surface small jigs all over the pond
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Tried it last night no bites until about 7:30-8 then caught half a dozen on a black gnat #12 they were all around 10"

Took the kids out fishing here over May long. Trolled around with a few wolly buggers and couldn't keep them off. Great kids lake.

Lots of bites pulled out a nice 12 " lots of little guys
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Went out there May 15th. Once the wind died down they were jumping like crazy. 3 hrs= 1 catch and a couple nibbles. The birds were fishing better than we were but it was fun to watch.

Trolled for a couple hours close to shore, 16 feet deep. A few nibbles on black/ yellow five diamonds but nothing reeled in. A guy on the dock reeled in a sucker fish about 5 cm in length.

Lots of bites and five realed in on Tuesday bigger all bigger than what I've caught out of here recently. Was pretty windy water real wavy and they we living the spinner

Fished Here for the first time a week ago for only a couple hours caught one nice rainbow on Panther Martin spinner from shore. Gonna head out again today after work.

Nice rainbow on pink powerbait
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Just curious how long pike have been in this lake? I have fished it multiple times but only for trout on the fly rod and have done pretty well. Strange combo for a stocked lake Has anyone caught pike from here?

A HotSpot Marker was added for Dickson Trout Pond
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Went and checked it out lastnight no Ice at all. Not sure how the fish are doing after winter but it's definately fish able.

Anyone visited the pond? I'm thinking about going and checking it out next weekend.

Is there anything besides suckers out here?

Was out today and caught 5 trout about a pound. I put them all back never keep any from there. Also caught 5 suckers. Those I leave on the ice for the whatever happens along and eats them! Sometimes its new Canadians! I find just off the shore about 30 feet works the best. Worms and maggots.

Was out on Dec. 22nd - 12" ice. Fishing was slow

Ice Report: 9 in

I try close to the shore 10' depth. powerbait and worms works

I have not ice fished Here before. Can you help with a good spot and what depth is good as well as what to use? I Ice fish a lot but not much experience with trout. I usually fish gull for whites and pike. Any help would be appreciated. I would love to get the kids catching fish out there.

10" of ice fishing is good

Anyone been out yet? I am sure there is enough ice to walk on. Looking for places to take the kids out maybe this weekend.

Has anyone been out to check on the ice yet

Lots of fish jumping, but no bites

Dicson Trout Pond what is the fishing in the pond as today?_Thank you

Hey guys im thinking of heading out there tonight. Any suggestions? Also does anyone know if they've cleaned up the dead fish or should I be worried about scavengers prowling the shore?

Lots of bites and pulled out a nicer. Only action for the day while trolling small 5 of diamonds
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Lots of winter kill but lots of strikes
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Watched a pike on a leisurely swim not 5 feet in front of us (on shore) but no bites. People on both sides of me seemed to have luck though.

Dude it's been like that sense the ice melted

Huge fish kill ! Dozens of dead fish along shore ...

When's fishing to day when's trolling with spinner(1) fought 3rainbow trout. And the 2other guys coute 2 and 1.

Or if you have a boat when u load off a the dock hed west about 50mater from shor, use a spinner (1) . And troll, not to fast

When u get to the parking lot walk down the bank seperating the pond from the lake walk don't to a big metal drain

Hi fisherman#1 where is the best spot in this pond?

Hi fisherman#1

If u want to know the best fishing spot just ask!!

Nice day there for 3hrs and cought 2 suckers

Nothing biting at all, literally hundreds of dead sucker fish littered across the shores. It was horrible.

Extremely windy no fish biting at all

Normally fishing is really good this time of year with hungry over winter fish and newly stocked 10" trouts smashing spoons with utter abandon. However, this year I have not seen neither one of them. My guess is winter kill was heavy and they havn't stocked the bigger 10" trout so far. I did see schools of smaller 5" trouts crusing the shallows along the bank. Fishing should pick up once the 8-10" trout are stocked in large numbers.

For me, I take the Hwy 54 west from Hwy 2 and drive to town of Spruce View. From there I take the road south to DS. Once you get to stop sign go strait until you get to DSTrout Pond and camp grounds gravel access road. Most effective way catch trout is bottom fish with power bait. Small spoons in 1/8 to 1/5 oz in brass and fire orange colour also works well in spring.

Went last night and the fish weren't biting at all I was fly fishing and spinning but still nothing was working

I plan on going to the pond in a day or two. I have a few questions? 1. Any easy directions to the pond? 2. What can some of you guys recommend I use for bait? I'm very new to fishing

I went fishing yesterday evening and fishing was very slow. Didn't see any of the over winter trout. I did see a small school of 5" newly stocked rainbows but they were too small and were not in biting mode for some reason. Even guys who were bottom fishing with power bait were having no luck. A few trout I saw caught were 5" newly stocked trout from the shallows. Nothing bigger than that for the two hours I was there.

Did anyone go fishing yet today? If so where the fish biting?

Did they clean up the dead fish?

Trout pond stocked today, no luck trolling.

Ice is off, but a massive winter kill. Saw several hundred dead suckers floating along the bank everywhere. Starting to stink. Unless they clean up the mess, it's unlikely yo be stocked in time for the long weekend.

Ice still on. Open water around the edges.

Anyone checked out the pond?

Is there still ice out there?

Hello Roddy I was there last weekend and people were still driving on the pond. I suspect your at least 2 to 3 weeks before the ice is off. Hope that helps.

Is the ice off the pond yet??

Went last weekend and fished in 10 feet out water right in front of the parking lot. We fished all morning with no bites but I did talk to two others that said the fishing seems better later in the day. There is 12 inches of ice and there was a couple of trucks on the ice close to shore.

how's the ice fishing

Ice Report: 10 in
By government campground

Ice Report: 6 in

Definitely wheel chair accessible sir. Was wondering when it's going to be ice fishing time!!!!!

There are 3 wheelchair accessible fishing sites. Always seem to catch fish from there

how is the fishing at the dickson trout pond for shore fishing and what is best bait havent had any luck catching anything around red deer area from mountains always caught lots of nice trout with marshmellows or power bait

Does anyone know if there are any wheelchair accessible spits here to fish from the shore thanks

Not a bad morning, we got in the water by 6am. The better half and I , she got 3 in the boat and I brought 2 in. We were getting seady bites and left the water by 10am. I tried the spill way as well, no luck there.

Trolled a black leech after the rain yesterday and had non stop bites for a few hours. Managed to get 4 to the boat all under 10"

Was there weekend of flooding. Fishing was good. Flood didn't affect the pond.

Anyone seen it since the flood?

4hrs of bait fishing for 3 panfry little trout..lots of bites...fishing got better aftet thunder shower

Does anyone know if this pond is ok due to the flooding ?

Good fishin this evening! Lots of bites, nothing too big but enough to get this "new avid fisher" excited!! :)

Hello all has anyone caught fish in the Dixon this year? Stocking reports are indicating that it was filled up

Went fishing on the north side of the Dam in the little pond and in the river, dont think there were any fish stocked in there lol but lost 3 lures, trying my luck with the lake tomorrow

I went there yesterday afternoon and fishing was very slow for some reason. I hardly saw anyone catch a fish.

Another 30 trout today.

Easily 50 trout for me this afternoon.

i saw that sign too but it was from the 2012 regulation and not the 2013. i dont think they stock it yet. they might stock it this comming May long. but i got my limit last saturday. and all the fish looks healthy. all 5 were about 12"

I went there yesterday and saw a sign posted that no retention of fish allowed until further notice. I don't think trout has been stocked yet this year.

Has the pond been stocked this year?

You can keep your catch at The Pond this year just not Glennifer. Pg 4 in the regs.

you can fish now at the pond almost no ice left. and im here right now caught 4 average size. not sure if you can keep the fish if your fishing at the pond. but im pretty sure its catch and release on the other side

Last weekend about 15 meters from shore was no ice. I am thinking not much ice left after this week. Cought couple of average size trout. Catch and release still in effect.

Hey anyone know if the ice is off the pond yet thx

hi. thanks for the reply. yeah im asking if the pond is gonna be open this year. coz they closed it last year because of the oil spill

I'm not sure what exactly your asking. Yes the pond is open this year & You can still keep fish. The 3rd annual eastslope kayak fishing classic will be held here again on June 22nd. The 2013 regs are out I suggest reading them.

does anyone know if the trout pond will be this comming summer???

I was there October. Fish are not dead there alive. After I caught 2 trout I kept getting sucker after sucker!!! Didnt get there until 6pm stayed till dark fish jumping everywhere!!!

Looks like oil is killing the lake was there today most off fish flouting belly up and theres a lot off green scum on the lake

    Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:33:00 -0600 Subject: Fishery restriction on Red Deer River &tributaries If you are having difficulty viewing this email properly, please click here: http://www.industrymailout.com/Industry/View.aspx?id=383112&q=489447534&qz=e4b18f Message from Alberta Fish & Wildlife Division Fishery restriction on Red Deer River and tributaries This email is to inform anglers that starting August 7,  2012, fishing upstream of Dickson Dam on the Red Deer River and its tributaries will be restricted to catch-and-release only for the remainder of the season. A zero harvest restriction is in place as a precautionary measure, as government experts will be conducting a population sampling program to determine if there were any impacts to fish stocks in the waterways as a result of a pipeline spill in early June. Anglers will not be allowed to harvest fish upstream of the Dickson Dam, including Gleniffer Reservoir and Dickson Trout Pond. The area includes the main-stem of the Red Deer River from Gleniffer Lake to the Banff National Park boundary, and all flowing tributary waters. Angler harvest in the affected area is still permitted in Burnstick Lake and in the following stocked trout lakes and ponds: • Beaver Lake, • Dormer Lake, • Eagle Lake, • Birch Lake, and • Yellowhead Lake. Specific regulations still apply, which can be found in the Alberta 2012 Sportfishing Regulations. More information, including maps of the affected area, will be available after 12:00 p.m. on Friday, August 3 at www.mywildalberta.ca NEW! AlbertaRELM e-News Copies of emails being sent to hunters and anglers are now being posted on this website. Click here to view current and previous email notices. To ‘send this to a friend’ click on the link at the bottom of this email. ________________________________________________ Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development 9915-108 Street Edmonton, AB  T5K 2G8 Email srd.infocent@gov.ab.ca Send this to a friend | Unsubscribe srd.alberta.ca Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Fish and Wildlife 9920-108 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 2M4 This email was created and delivered using Industry Mailout  

Also can ppl pass this on so no one gets themselves in trouble with the fishery act and post it under other lakes to for ppl to see

Its catch and release only for remainder of season. For upstream of Dickson dam and red deer river and tributaries also includes the trout pond. I very strongly suggest reading a article issued lately that just about all bodies of water are under this condition cause of conducting population sampling program to see what impact that the oil spill had on central Alberta's water ways. Check out this at www.industrymailout.com/industry/view.aspx?id=383112&q=489447534&qz=e4b18f.

the pond is open and you can fish the lake but recommend you release all lake fish caught

Its a first come first serve basis in the campground. Just walk in and choose your spot and register right away after you get settled in

Does anyone no were I can book the camp ground at Dickson trout pond can't find the number on the web thanks ow great day fishing here

The wife n I made it out on friday with the canoe, abit windy but four each in a couple hours. Spoons all the way.

Awsome news , now I don't have to wade out past the weeds.

Went there yesterday and caught 5 in 35min. Good ol bobber and a hook with power bait did the job. Lots of guys boating and on float tubes

are you talking about the trout pond or the actual dam?

I drove past today and you can fish from the shore but they are not allowing any boats out there right now.

Anyone know if the pond is open yet after the oil spill

Well, I went out on fathers day and the entire pond is closed. Kinna sucks, its the best trout fishing closest to Red Deer, besides the river and she is abit fast and dirty.

For the last few years my wife n I have crazy luck in a canoe using only spoons. Last year between the two of us five of the monsters .
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Does anyone know anything about the closing of the campground end of the pond. I was hoping to put my canoe in, I was out last weekend and the road was closed at the fork?

The reason why I'm asking if any oil got into the trout pond is plains midstream had a pipe line leak very close to it something like 3000 barrels leaked

Did any of the oil spill get into the trout pond

5 in an hr? that was a good day of fishing then.. brooder is the big trout

What's a brooder?

Just go here and already had five to the boat (10") in a hour

Just a spinner and sorry for the late feed back

wow thats a good size brooder! im going there this long weekend. what kind of bait are you using for them?

johm ya i went up there friday - sunday and on saterday i catch a 4-5 pound18.5 inch brooder there an 20+ 9-12 inchers also. you gatta go at night or in the morning when the wind is calm.

went there last saturday caught 3 average size, i didnt see any brooder but saw alot of good size about 8 ft away from the side. bad thing is, they dont want to bite no matter what you do!! lol im thinking they are the new stock.

Hey guys wondering what baits are good to use for the brooders?

Went there yesterday got 2 nothing big but a guy had 2 damn nice ones. Great lake

Ice is all gone. If you have a boat, good time to go.

Is the pond still frozen?????

does anyone check out the trout pond lately??? when can we start fishing again?

went out yesterday for an hr or so. wife and I caught 2 and was lots of action so was very happy with that !!!!! fishing the north - north west side

going out today need to know where the hot spots are

soooo If i go on with my half ton today u think i will be ok? there has got to be enough ice !!!!! ?

Barrier Lake is just about 20 minutes south of HWY 1 on your way to Kananaskis ! Gret Lake .. Fished it for a week this summer. Also try Mount Lorette Ponds just more south towards kananaskis more , They were awsome watching the fish swim to your hooks and bite, we seen over 10,000 trout in a week at lorette ponds . im in emdonton and would love to live in that area

thanks Sman..... where is bearior lake around dickson area? just curious cause i moved out to this part last week

Does anyone have any info about bearior lake

The ice is about a foot

any idea on how thick ice is still at the pond????? heading out there tomorrow am!!!!

went out to gull instead yesterday, didnt catch a think had a couple perch nibbling but thats it

thinking about going out there this weekend ! I will keep let u know the thickness early next week

want to know that to use at the lake like the baits and hooks?

Super slow. The odd small one. About 8-10" of ice

Great thanks thinking might head out on Sunday

I have been told that there is about 6 inches of ice

Anyone been out to check the ice??

Anybody know if ice thick to fish yet

Went today for the first time , nice pond but could not catch any , locals are saying that it's been tough couple of days , but thousands of little guys all over . Great future fishing .

Caught one, always a good place to fish!

Lots of small ones. Jumping all over the place

Fish jumping like crazy! Caught a couple little 2 pounders, gonna go back soon!

Probably the biggest stocked pond in central Alberta. Trolling from a boat best, fishing from shore also good. Rainbows range in size from about 8 inches to over 30 inches. The large rainbows, are most likely retired brood hens.