Another Pepi Day

[smerchly]

Yesterday was spent exploring some old spots for bait fish and do some carp fishing .....and it was a complete bust !  My old ditch has dried up where we caught crayfish and small chubs . I fished for about 90 min. as the cold NE wind got to me . I headed to P.Dal . to check for minnows ...none to be seen & saw about 12 guys fishing at the harbour . 

Then I went to CDP to check out the beach etc. Damn , if the lake isn't too high or too low !  There isn't much water left in the pond , barely over the knees now as the berm is about 70 ft. wide and barren of trees . Some outflow  is still draining the pond , and they have fenced off 90% of the park which I have never seen  happen before. 

The fence on the east side of the park is there to stop people from tobogganing down the hill towards the water . 

 

 

[Darryl L]

44 minutes ago, smerchly said:

Yesterday was spent exploring some old spots for bait fish and do some carp fishing .....and it was a complete bust !  My old ditch has dried up where we caught crayfish and small chubs . I fished for about 90 min. as the cold NE wind got to me . I headed to P.Dal . to check for minnows ...none to be seen & saw about 12 guys fishing at the harbour . 

Then I went to CDP to check out the beach etc. Damn , if the lake isn't too high or too low !  There isn't much water left in the pond , barely over the knees now as the berm is about 70 ft. wide and barren of trees . Some outflow  is still draining the pond , and they have fenced off 90% of the park which I have never seen  happen before. 

The fence on the east side of the park is there to stop people from tobogganing down the hill towards the water . 

 

 

The water levels have been all over the place lately. The river was so low last week guys were having trouble launching boats into the upper. 

[smerchly]

Back in the day (50's) that berm was well above the lake water level with shrubs scattered about the pond side . As we walked along the sandy shore we would see sunfish scatter into the small weed beds running the shoreline . We fished with worms and caught smallmouth , largemouth , carp, catfish , dogfish , crappies , etc. Over the years many trees filled the banks and now , there's nothing but sand and the pond filled with silt and muck.  

 

At the east side there was a lot of brush , fallen trees , logs , etc where fish spawned . There were turtles, herons, kingfishers ...a real nice place for critters of all kinds . Then some "rich" people decided to "clean up the shoreline" so they could have a better view of the lake and decimated the shore line . We got the MoE to check it out and some reeds were planted but erosion took its toll on the steep slope .

I noticed the "new bank" yesterday .....I don't know who paid for it but I'm guessing "we" did from "government funding"