Lakes West of Edmonton?

mark · #1 06-14-2006, 05:50 PM

Just come back from my second time out this year from camping at Carson-Pegasus Provincial Park, just west of Whitecourt.

Two lakes associate with it, one stocked with trout that love marshmallows.

TheReefGeek · #2 06-14-2006, 05:55 PM

I think I am going to have to find some more free weekends this summer!

Delphinus · #3 06-14-2006, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by mark

Just come back from my second time out this year from camping at Carson-Pegasus Provincial Park, just west of Whitecourt.

Two lakes associate with it, one stocked with trout that love marshmallows.

Oh wow -- there's a blast from the past for me. I used to work up there (well, the Carson Creek gas plant) in the early 90's!! That is a -really nice- provincial park.

I remember once I was biking some 20km loop in the woods around there and I came across a sow and two cubs. Since I was by myself, I sort of thought, wow, this is it. In 2003 some hiker is just going to find a pile of bones and a rusty mountain bike. I have *never* pedalled so hard as I did that day, riding back to the car. On the other hand, maybe that would be fabulous way to train if you could pull that off 2, 3 times per week without managing to get eaten by the bears!!!

demon666 · #4 06-26-2006, 07:34 PM

hey there rory.......

if you want to learn to fish there is this new place out here by spruce grove called "U-FISH" same concept as "u-pick" it is on some guys private land so there is no need for a licence and there are no limits on how many fish you take..... the pond is stocked with rainbow and steelhead trout..... the owner supplies everything from rod to reel to tackel ($7) too many ppl looseing hooks. he even supplies bait for fishing off the dock...... the cost is $1 per inch....... i took the kid and wife there yesterday and it only cost me 35 bucks i lost 2 hooks.... oh and if you dont loose ur hook you keep it.... we were there for 2.5 hours and had a blast..... a great place to learn how to cast....... my kid finally learned how to do it yesterday....... we only cought 1 fish in the 2.5 hours we were there but it was fun..... a private group came in when we were leaving and cought like 20 fish in about 15 min....damn there luck!!!!! a great place to learn how to fish!!!!!

TheReefGeek · #5 06-26-2006, 07:39 PM

I saw that driving back to Edmonton actually, it has a boat with a model of a fisherman out front on the corner?

What are the costs if you bring your own gear, do you know?

demon666 · #6 06-26-2006, 07:49 PM

yup that is the place..... its still $1 an inch if you bring your own gear.... all you pay for is the fish..... oh and it is only open thursday - sunday

TheReefGeek · #7 06-26-2006, 07:59 PM

Good info, thanks.

I went out to Spring Lake nearbye to there, it is stocked. Got some nibbles, but never set the hook good enough to bring one in.

demon666 · #8 06-26-2006, 08:11 PM

ya this place is great........ lots of nibbels but like i said i only got one..... should of had more but oh well.... at this place you are pretty much guarenteed to go home with something..... the guy just opened up so he is more or less over stocked right now....... when i went in on saturday to talk to them they figured they had roughly 17000 fish in the pond so you should be able to get something out of that pond.... oh there are carpe in the pond too but it will cost ya $100 if you want to keep it if you get on on the line..... oh ya and it isnt catch and release... so if you land it you must keep it no matter on how big it is.... the size is 10" the smallest in the pond and the only size that i cought...... upto 20" so good size fish........