Ice Fishing

On Valentine's day we headed out to do a little ice fishing. Luckily for us the whole weekend was above freezing, so warm for Canadian standards. We headed out at 9 am and didn't leave until 2:30 pm, which was a bit more fishing than I had planned for. The boys all caught a fish, even Mason, and Tyler caught two. Daddy didn't get any, but he sure tried, even while we were all eating what was caught. Nick, our guide, fried it up right there in the middle of the lake. Nick said Mason was the youngest he ever had catch a fish, and none of us even know how he did it. He would put his lure in the water and yanked it back and forth to "jig" it and then say "OH, I think I got one" and then he would reel it in. Well, sure enough one time he did, but since that was about the fifth one he "caught" no one was even paying attention until he said he needed help and Grant helped him reel it in only to find a fish on the end!

The water is so clean and cold, and that must make the trout extra yummy. The ice was about two feet deep and the water about 80 feet, and you fish right off the bottom. Its definitely something worth trying, you know if the weather is nice and warm.

There are a couple of pictures of huge cracks in the ice, this is because the lake freezes and they continue to let water out of the dam. If they didn't let the water out when the spring thaw comes the dam would get washed away along with the towns of Banff, Canmore, and downtown Calgary.