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Canada => Ice Fishing Alberta CA => Topic started by: imgonnamissher on Jan 03, 2010, 07:57 PM
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Was a pretty good day at Spray Lakes on Saturday. there were about a dozen tents set up all across the lake from the boat launch. The ice is 13' thick and about 3-4" snow covered. We were set up about 9:00 and I caught my two before 11:00. My son Bill caught his two around 2:00 and 3:00. They ranged between 1.5 to 3lbs. Good eating, but too small to enter these fish into the contest.
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Catch for the Day:
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nice catch,,,,,healthly looking :thumbsup:
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NICE CATCH!!
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Sweet! What kind of fish are those?
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EXCELLENT
Fish on
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Good job!!
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Thanks,
These are Lake trout, F & W officer said that these are of average size for Spray Lake, although there have been some lunkers pulled out occasionally. :tipup: :icefish:
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nice catch :tipup:
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I gotta get me me some of those! Never went for lakers in the winter, gonna have to give it a try one of these days.
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Was there on Friday, fished in 60 feet water, caught my 3 lakers about the same size, was using a buzz bomb with a half smelt attached, lost a bigger fish around 30 feet up, big red bar on my flasher and rod tip in the hole for 30 seconds and my 8 lb test broke, it hit my buzz bomb like a frieght train as I was bringing it up to rebait.
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very nice makes me want to also hit spray for some lakers. i have never been there before but have been thinking of hitting it but for the rockies whitefish but the lakers sounds great too.
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Hey imgonnamissher, what did u catch those lakers on at Spray?
I tried there all day about two weeks back, and tried everything, smelts, buzz bombs, chartruse jigs ect and only caught one little laker by luck. I moved around lots too thinking it was my location, closer to shore and farther out but nothing really.
Thanks for your help.
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Hey imgonnamissher, what did u catch those lakers on at Spray?
I tried there all day about two weeks back, and tried everything, smelts, buzz bombs, chartruse jigs etc and only caught one little laker by luck. I moved around lots too thinking it was my location, closer to shore and farther out but nothing really.
Thanks for your help.
I used a new method that was passed down from a friend. I used a silver Williams wabler (50W) with red holographic on 1/2; The treble was removed and replaced with a 1/64 weight black jig tied about 4" below the spoon. A #7 barrel swivel between the spoon and jig helps keep the bait from spinning too much. I ripped a head off of a smelt and hooked it to the jig from just under the mouth. When you fish this setup, you first find bottom and then bring it up about a foot or two to set your depth. Then you bring it all the way up to the surface and let it free fall to the bottom. If your gonna get a strike, it will be before it hits bottom, or just as it hits bottom. Worked pretty good!!!
:tipup: :icefish:
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sweet;D thanks, I might try this on the weekend
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nice fish :)