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Canada => Ice Fishing Saskatchewan => Topic started by: Timetofish on Nov 30, 2020, 07:00 PM
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Anyone know the ice condition at timber bay, wonder if the Indians will be blocking fisher people access ?
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The First Nation (proper term) residents are allowing people in. They are having people sign in and sign out for contact tracing purposes and are taking temperatures.
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Last week they weren't allowing people into the town site so no access there but they would escort trucks to the beach and access there. Bittern is locked down completely.
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@ran7ger,
Are there other areas to access it? I have never fished it and not really planning to...just curious more than anything. It is a monster of a lake when driving by. Are there only certain areas people generally fish or is the whole lake pretty good?
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there is access at the north end by weyakwin and molanosa and a few other goat trails, haven't heard if there is security there or not. folks generally fish from the school, beach and timber bay.
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Good to know. Thanks for the info!
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Are they driving trucks on yet? Planning on heading up to WhiteSwan next week and am unsure if I’ll need a snowmobile or if I’ll be able to just take the truck on, has to be a good foot of ice by now you’d think?
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was between 5-10" ice at piprell on sunday. lakes didn't freeze solid this year with the snow we got. temps are above zero alll week, i'd bring the sled.
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Thanks for the heads up Ran7ger, will toss the Indy in the back of the truck, no fun putting a truck 100ft down at Whelan ;D
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heard guys are driving on and 12in of ice be careful though this heavy snow will mess with the lks unless there was a bunch of wind up there to blow it off and around gl
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I drove on Saturday from timber bay. 12-13"good black ice. Easy driving. Few drifts here and there and some slush. But nothing to worry about yet. Fishing was super slow. Usually way better for me. But nice to get out and watch the sunset and sunrise on the lake.
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I drove on Saturday from timber bay. 12-13"good black ice. Easy driving. Few drifts here and there and some slush. But nothing to worry about yet. Fishing was super slow. Usually way better for me. But nice to get out and watch the sunset and sunrise on the lake.
Fished Tobin on Saturday, slowest day of fishing ever, fished from 4’ to 32’, marked 6 fish all day, caught 0, 5 pop ups out that day 1 sauger between them all. Might just have been a rarely poor day.
12” makes me nervous with a 3/4 ton, I definitely like to see a solid 16”+, I’ll play it safe and snowmobile on.
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Has anyone tried Bittern, I am heading that way this weekend. Bittern was one of my targeted lakes.
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They're not allowing anyone into bittern last i heard.
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I went Saturday. They will escort you to the beach or through the reserve to access Timber Bay. They will NOT let you go to Bittern. There was 14 inches of ice where I fished.
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Had a good chat with a CO yesterday. He said he checked about 50 licenses on Montreal yesterday (Sunday). Vast majority had no fish to report.
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What is reason for not allowed on Bittern? Just curious.
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first nations
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I have been looking a bit deeper into my own question. I see that access to Bittern is directly related to entering the townsite. If the local people are monitoring entry to their community due to concerns of virus spread, I have total respect for their decision.
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if you have a sled you can snowmobile in from the south end of bittern. park trailer at lts on highway 2 and waskesiu turn off , short ride onto bittern 10 minutes tops
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They're limiting access as a covid measure. The lakes need a break anyway.
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if you have a sled you can snowmobile in from the south end of bittern. park trailer at lts on highway 2 and waskesiu turn off , short ride onto bittern 10 minutes tops
Much better place to leave truck and trailer, as to on the reserve
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I heard that bittern had pretty bad winter kill last year? That could be factoring into the decision to restrict access to Bittern? Maybe its good that it gets a bit of a break this year. My understanding is that the band is pretty aware of the value of the fish resource and works pretty hard to protect it these days. Ive been told they post guards up during the spawn along the river to protect the walleye.
I have worked with a few people from montreal lake over the years and they are all very nice and its great to see the community trying to preserve and enhance the fish in the lakes out there. My understanding is that "back in the day" montreal lake was the goto destination fishing lake until it got overfished. Seems like it is starting to recover in recent years.
If any lake could handle coming back from some winter kill, i imagine bittern would be a good contender, so hopefully things bounce back if it was enough winter kill to affect fish population. I haven't fished the lake myself since probably 2018, but it was definitely one of my favorite spots to hit up in the winter.
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Does anyone know what the access is like at timber. It was fairly easy access to the beach last weekend. Is anyone driving on at timber?
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a few trucks driving on at timber. not much snow on the ice but starting to get deep at the shore. ice is 11 to 15 inches. seems thinner the deeper you go. super slow didn't see much, only iced 1
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Hows the snow up there after thursday??
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Anybody finding the fishing much slower this year???
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Reports have been terrible generally.
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heard same slow
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Still drive on at timber bay?
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Last news release just said access at the beach road, that was on panow a few days ago.
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Another slow report. Whats up with this early winter?
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Slow for pike as well or just walleye?
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Slow for everything there right now.
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Yeah spent the day yesterday. I can confirm the slowness. First thing was the only action we seen other than a small pile on tip up in afternoon. Seen lots of small perch swimming around on the camera.
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Is a guy able to get around with a pick up still or did the wind end that for the season?
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Anyone hit the lake anytime recently? I have my eye on a couple spots on the south side and I'm hoping I can get to it with my truck. Is that possible on Montreal?
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I am also curious on any recent reports with regards to access or how fishing has been. Also i am curious if access to bittern is still restricted currently? And if it is not, also curious on what access and driving conditions are like on that lake too.
Thanks in advance!
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Any1 been on the lake recently??
Ice conditions?
Snow conditions?
Driving conditions?
Thx.
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Anyone been out? Hows the bite and ice conditions?
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ice ridge right off the beach- no way you will cross with a truck when there is enough ice. after the ridge there is an opening in the ice that would be an issue as well approx 8 in of ice in the most solid spot I measured fishing so so have been twice prob let the crowds show up as usual and have at er better lakes to attend to
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Is there any decent areas to drive on the lake??
Thanks.
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2 foot express bud
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I seen there was access. Thanks.
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Anyonefish Montreal in the last week, fish biting anywhere.
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havent heard a thing... most havent been out in the last week plus deep freeze up here
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Anyone aware of the amount of snow currently on the lake? Just wondering if we need to plan to bring ATV/snow mobile.
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Anyone know what the conditions are getting on and off the lake? How much snow is on the ice?
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snowmobile or tracks. be careful of slush
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With all the wind, does anyone know if the road is plowed to the beach on the south end of Montreal Lake?
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snowmobile or tracks. be careful of slush
Thanks for the reply. Looks like we will be walking on next weekend.
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Has any1 been on the lake in the past few days? I was there on Saturday and it looked like a truck could make it around now?
Thanks for any help.
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maybe where the derby was- cant see a truck going anywhere else was there on sat- was sled only where we went