Alberta Canada - Peppers Lake
With the rivers in central and northern Alberta still reeling from our wet June I packed my floating easy chair and made the trek to Peppers Lake on the Forestry Trunk Road.
Peppers is located about 1hour west of Rocky Mountain House. The lake is managed as a put and take fishery and is stocked every spring with Brook trout. The lake is prone to winter kill but the years that the fish over winter can provide for some very chunky trout. We arrived late Friday morning at the tail end of a massive Green Drake hatch. By the time I was rigged up and in the water it was all over and I thought it would be a slow outing. The trout were still co-operative though hitting on green chironomid patterns and BH pheasant tails.
The view to the west from my "lilly pad" as my wife calls it was beautiful. She says I should change my handle from mosbos to "Kermit".
Most of the fish I caught were first year stockers but this one had a little more size to her.
We did a little exploring up the FTR in the afternoon and made it as far as the South Ram river where the road was closed down due to the flood washouts.
Elk Creek was looking well in the head waters and should be fishable within the next week or so. The creek looks a lot better up here than it did in my before and after posting in the forum where the creek has changed it’s course to the Clearwater river.
The good thing about these rains is that they blew out almost every beaver dam on the creek which should provide for better fish migration and improved spawning grounds.
I can’t think of a better way to spend a Canada Day then enjoying the scenery in a country that we are so lucky to live in.Tight lines from the west. Mosbos.
