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July 8th and 9th is Alberta’s free fishing weekend, which coincides with National Fishing Week in Canada.

For more information about Alberta’s Licence Free Weekend, call 780-944-0313

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded this site to WordPress 2.0.3

I was really hesitant for a while, but after backing up my files, I simply disabled a couple plugins I was using, then uploaded the new wordpress files.

I really like it when upgrades go smoothly. Doesn’t seem to happen often enough

Spent a week fishing the lakes, both from the float tube, as well as trolling from an aluminum boat. The weather was excellent, with a little bit of rain on a couple days, but nice and sunny otherwise.

I caught my first bull trout in the first lake (at the MacDonald Day-use area)… a nice 17″ specimen, that turned out to be the largest I caught out of any of the lakes. The next day, I caught a 10″ juvenile bull in the same lake… and same bay. The day after that, I landed a 13″ bull trout. Nice to see the range of sizes, and I’m sure there are larger ones there.

I was a little disappointed at the campground, which although beautiful and many sites along the brookie lake, didn’t seem to be very well maintained… in a week, I never saw the campground maintenance other than the day we arrived… where a guy in an unmarked, beat up pick up truck, dropped of a little bit of wood, and stuck a roll of toilet paper in a couple outhouses. I get the impression that many of the locals take the lakes for granted, coming out to party, and throw beer cans everywhere in and around the lakes.

The Atlas of Canada – Toporama – Topographic Map of Alberta

An excellent map of Alberta.. just click to zoom in. Of course this isn’t just for Alberta, but the link above zooms in on my home province, and where 99% of my fishing is done