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From the Alberta Sustainable Resources Department:

You are invited to provide your input into the Fisheries Management Branch’s proposal for additional quality-regulation stocked trout fisheries in the province. To learn more about this proposal, read the following background document – then complete the brief eight-question survey:

• Background and Survey: Quality Stocked Trout Fisheries
  

  Note:

  Please read the background document before you take the survey.

Survey Ends: September 30, 2008

• The summary results will be discussed at the Alberta Fisheries Management Round Table Committee meeting this fall.
• Your views will be kept confidential

Man uses Barbie fishing rod to make record catch – Yahoo! News

Goes to show that size doesn’t matter!  Well, at least for Barbie anyway ;^)

Yes, summer holidays are done.  While I didn’t get in as much fishing as I had hoped, I did manage to spend some time at the vise, and have a few dozen flies to add to the fly boxes.  All I did was tie up 2 or 3 flies every day – either later in the evening, or in the morning.

I tied up some of the standard patterns that I tend to go through – T.U.s, Spratleys, and Carey’s – and I also tied up a few wooly buggers, and scuds.  I also made up a couple patterns, experimenting a bit with materials and thread colors.

Hopefully some of these will see some water in the next couple of months before the hard water returns – who knows, maybe I can get out to a lake or two that I had hoped to hit during the past couple weeks.  We’ll see.  Who knows – maybe the trip will be in a new Jeep ;^)

Been at the cabin here at Gull Lake for a few days now. Not sure which parts of this lake would be best for fishing – and with the size, I don’t think I’ll be cruising across it in the pontoon boat! Definitely been tempted though – supposed to be pike, walleye, and whitefish here.

So I drove the other morning to Ironside Pond. It was nice drive through Rocky Mtn. House down towards Caroline.

Upon getting there however, the road was gated closed. I had look at Mithchell Lake, which is directly south of the Ironside Pond turnoff. You drive through a cow pasture, and then down into a little valley. The lake is very small – definitely looked fishable, but not too exciting to spend an entire day at. So I ended up contuing my way south on 22, then headed a 5km east towards Caroline, where the Burnstick lake turnoff is. Headed up south again here, and went to Beaver Lake.

I was the only one there as I began putting the pontoon boat together. The fishing was slow (which I was kind of expecting), but I did bring three to the boat – ranging in size between 12 and 15″. I ended up heading back to Gull Lake after fishing for about 4 or 5 hours.

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