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Welcome back! Cold Lake is open water. There is ice in the bays only but it has degraded to really unsafe ice. Check back in a couple of weeks but more likely mid-Jan will be smartest for trucks this year. Going to be a shorter Cold Lake ice season this year.
Yep , maybe 76 , I know they closed that lake Shortly after ! I have a bit of familly up there in the cold lake area . I know what your talking about , I'd love to retire On the LOW in Ontario , but who will do the dishes . Ah ha , ah ha , me ! Do you just drive on when you go there ? I have a cousin who Commercial fished that area for years ...I should visit him !
They Stopped Commercial fishing cold lake years ago , and then the fishing got really good.So good in fact people would come from all over to fish this lake so they upped the size limit from 65 cm to 75 cm.Less people are now fishing it because 75 cm long fish are far in between. Caught only one last year. The last two ice seasons I have noticed much more bait fish in the water . On my Lx7 I would see them as thick as 50 ft deep and i could see them down my hole with my eyes when this happens. Some times takes up to 2 hours for them to leave the area. Then they are back in an hr. Not sure what the best answer is for this lake. If they return the size to 65 it may get fished out fast.Just to many people fishing it 7 day a week.Only answer I have is the tag system . 3 tags per year. not a lottery just a flat out $20. for 3 tags. no size limit.Yes we do drive on it with our trucks. normally need an extension on your auger. But maybe not this year !I keep going back because I always hook into one that breaks my 30 lb line like butter .Happend twice on 30 lbs as I thought I hooked the bottom so I set the drag so I can pull up hard .then she runs and breaks the line. Before that it was with 15 lb line and she would empty my reel then break off.