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Default RE: Hunting & Fishing in Canada (Cold Lake)?

Cold Lake Base is located in north eastern Alberta, right along the border between Saskatchewan & Alberta. The only hunting would be bears at that time of year. Fishing in June is usually very good in the northern parts of sask/alberta. However not real sure what fishing is close by, but most likely pike, walleye and lake trout possibly. Pike spoons, mepps in line spinners #3-5 (firetigger, brass, copper or silver), jig and grubs(whites, pink, chart, pumpkin seed, black), cranks and maybe topwater baits such as buzz baits, zarra spooks, would be a good bet. Walleye cranks, live bait rigs, jigheads tipped with bait or jig and grub combos work well. (3/8oz jigheads are perfect and 3" power grubs-white, chart, pumpkin seed or black, etc work well) Lakers will most likely be up, try silver spoons like a williams wabler, l' il cleo or fat raps. If down try 1oz hair jigs tipped with smelt or sucker belly. As far as rods, a med action baitcaster spooled with 10-14lb Trilene XT will be good for pike and lakers. Or a spinning outfit med action will work equally well for those species, spool it with 10-12 xt and buy lots of 12" steel leaders for them pike[8D] Walleye the same med action spinning rod will work, but spool it with 6-8 pound low diameter mono like berkley sensation or spiderlinw super X mono, don' t use a leader when fishing these guys.

Weather is usually in the teens in may and low 20' s in june - Celsius. I would pack some warmer wear, shorts, etc and most certainly have rain gear. It depends on the year some years it is very warm and dry in the spring and yet others it is cool and wet. It really can change a lot up here....be prepared for anything!
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