took my fishing rod with me while I was swimming the dog in East Pit, 30 degrees, noon to 3:30pm, landed 6 on pink and green power eggs. Mid-day, I was pleasantly surprised.

Fish here today. Caught 15 inches bows. My own version of wooly bugger (zebra color pattern). Been have success catching big bows with this. and Please pick up your garbage!! not coo.i

Stopped at Beachcorner Esso they had great Baits thanks cause I limited out

Ever had lol like to add to the last post I made people please pick up your garbage you brought it to the lake you can take it with you when you go keep our lakes clean so we can enjoy them years down the road thank you

Just got back from here and let me tell you it was the best day I never had at east pit couldn't keep the fish off my hook non stop action all day caught over 30 fish kept four over 16 inches

Seems they've cleared some of the trees and brushes. Caught a nice ~15" rainbow on some powerbait today.

If anybody else has updates here before may 14, it would be much appreciated!

Was there today, no ice and beautifull clear water. tryed diferent lockations, in 3 hours got only 1 small raibow

Drove by today to try my luck ,,,, still covered in ice :(

i mean april 2nd any body been out recently?

is there much ice left would like to maybe try it tomorrow sunday april 1st

What is good bait for fishing this lake in the winter?

Caught any fish today? how about the ice condition. Is it ok for walking around?

Are you allowed to use a gas powered auger here?

Big walleye

also i fish shallow from 6ft to 12ft hope you get some ,

Thanks "fishing" I'll give it a shot. I've only been here a couple times. Half way is the farthest I went.

Very slow today, caught a single 2lb rainbow after 5hrs on lime green powerbait 1' from bottom in abt 12' of water.

401banshee. i walk all the way to other end and work my way back , small jigs and small bait works good , its recently snowed but look for tent mark on the far end thats where i had all luck

Anythingfishing. I have yet to pull a fish out of there. I tried lots of holes is there is certain depth or side you fish?

well first time ice fishing at this lake, was a "fun" walk in with the sleds, lots of big ones , kept 2 for lunch , powerbait to start then when it got slow i threw on some maggots and it was no longer slow

Green lime or rainbow sparkle trout PBS work for me!

What kind of power bait

Decent afternoon yesterday.... caught 4 in 3.5 hrs. Kept 2 for frying pan. Power bait is the ticket! Cheers.

Ice 23"

Ice is now 19 ". Clean and clear, no fish to be found on the west side. Heck of a haul in with a sled for no fish.

Thanks for the ice update! Need more than 2 crayfish to make a meal. Lol

Ice is 8" no fish around. Seen 2 crawfish on the bottom.

Anyone checked how much ice yet?

Fished in the float tube for 3 hours, had 6 bites. Not much rising, the lake was dead tonight. The biggest fish I saw rise was 10". To say it was slow was an understatement. I fished a sink tip, tried probably 15 different types. Nothing seemed to work. They were rising, taking a caddis like fly size about 28. But with little rising, I didn't bother trying to dry fly. Shore anglers weren't doing any better.

Belly boats and fly rods today. Started early and fished whole morning. Lots of fish, nothing bigger than 14" though. But very good action. Fish were taking to black leech type flies or green dragon flies. A good day of fishing.

Great fishing next to the weed bed.
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Best day I have ever had here. Caught 8, lost 4 with a bunch of small hits that didn't hook.

Me and a friend are going out friday what are they hitting and do the fish taste muddy at all?

landed a few small rainbows..ok fishing but not nearly as good here as it use to be a few years ago.

what were you using for lures with your power bait? and which color powerbait were you using as well? we are heading out tomorrow early morning to try and grab a few trout!

Got a very unexpected but very exciting 22 inch rainbow yesterday fishing from shore on south side of lake. Usually only pull the little 7-10in guys out of this lake. Power bait always works well.

Caught a 8"er yesterday. Tonnes of surface action.

Went out this morning and no bites what are they biting

They are using honey worms with salmon eggs, 10ft below their bobber

What bate did your friend use? Did you fish from shore?

Went out yesterday with friends and we caught a lots of small one's, my friends caught a 19 inch rainbows!

I guess I should have said a small boat or inflatable. There isn't a boat launch there so don't take anything that you can't carry.

Salters lake was just stocked with 7500 12" rainbows. The shore is a little soft though. So I would get there early to get a spot on the dock. Or take a boat. No gas motors. Lots of people are catching on flys and small spoons/spinners. I use a pickerel rig and white marshmallows.Star lake can be good too, lots of room off shore. The trout seem fussy there though. I've heard of 14/16" coming out of there. 13"was my biggest.

All is well now and everything is understood. Been to the twice already after getting all the info in order. I landed a few nice rainbows and there's no doubt in my mind that there are some lunkers in the lake. Anyone have any recommendations for other lakes for trout fishing? East pit lake is is worth the time that's for sure.

Great,thanks for the info.

Great,thanks for the info.

No, you can't get boat in. You have to hike in about 1 Km.

Can anyone tell me if there are good spots to fish from the shore? Or do you need a boat?

I apologize NorthernYaker your right i am wrong on the tiger trout I miss recalled it for East Twin lake!

as NorthernYaker has said: GET, READ AND UNDERSTAND THE REGS.. Some might be confused as to the stocking. RNBT is 'Rainbow' CLCL is the 'strain' of Rainbow, in this case it means Campbell Lake, as shown in the bottom of the stocking summary. Go to the mywildalberta.com website and you can download the stocking reports going back as far as 2009 and there is no other trout species stocked in East Pit apart from rainbows.

No tigers or cutthroats in East pit.... As we already said get, read, and understand the regs...

I've never personally fished east pit and even i know they don't stock it with Cut throat, if you mean rainbows, and tiger trout then yes they do stock the lake with all of those two, any others are accidental and its a 5 trout limit... If people read the fancy regulations that come with your license when you purchase it this type of confusion/question wouldn't happen....JUST SAYING! PS:http://www.albertafishingguide.com/location/water/all/east-pit-lake#regulations

It was just a question man. No need to get so sore about it lol. I'm new to the province and was just curious about size restrictions for trout. And by the way man there's cutthroats in the lake. By the sounds of it you're not havin much luck lol.

No cutthroats in the lake...I could answer bit the answer in IN THE REGS...and it's super easy to find, I suggest you getvu copy before you touch your fishing rod again...

What are the size limits for rainbows and cutthroats in the lake?

EAST PIT LAKE RNTR CLCL 2N 11,600 21.5 2-May-16

Been out all weekend had aloy of bites and had a few on but actually caught 3 in all between 2 of us a 20in on friday a 12 in on saturday and a 17 in yesterday its a great lake

Whats some good tackle for this lake

Caught 2 trout yesterday. Both about 13.

Any good tip s on what to use on this lake

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They stock the pond just before May long weekend

Caught a 13-inch rainbow 3 days ago, And yesterday I got a 12 inch and a 14-inch. All using powerbait on a Carolina Rig.

Fished the lake yesterday morning and this morning. Nothing, zip, zero.

A HotSpot Marker was added for East Pit Lake
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No ice anymore! But had no luck

Ice there still ice?

Anyone know when they stock the pond?

Ice Report: 3 in
All over

Ice fished, used a fish finder, tons and tons of fish at 5.5m, still got skunked, and 4 other groups skunked as well
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Beautiful day, lots of fish on the fish finder from 8-noon, none on our 3 hooks. 3 other groups out as well, 5 guys, all skunked, there are lots of fish I can confirm, fished east end, from 5.5m deep and seen tons electronically, nothing at 3m deep.

Ice Report: 16 in

Caught limit in 2 hours. Smelt tails on length Thompsons west end of Lake 6 feet of water baby

Ice Report: 13 in

Ice Report: 10 in
East end

A good solid 10-12" of ice. Caught a limit of rainbows but only kept a nice 15" for the pan. Use maggots and only fished the east end. Tight lines!

Anyone know how much ice is on the lake?

Has anybody been out on east pit how's the fishing

Was out yesterday afternoon. Fished for 2 hours. Landed 2 12" long. A guy at the east end of the lake got a nice one at 18" long.

Had a good time out in the belly boat fly fishing ..had a few hits and landed 1 small rainbow..it was a fun day but after all these years of fishing at eastpit it has become clear that eastpit is not the same as it use to be.

Had a decent evening fishing last night. Myself and a buddy landed 1 each plus had lots of hits just as the sun was going down. First time evening fishing here and it was the most action I had seen also. Not big fish but was still fun if you are looking to catch and release.

wow this heat has kept the trout fishing at eastpit on the down side.. nothing i used worked not even a nibble(fly fishing)..other people were useing worms and corn and power bait and no one was haveing any luck. hope things turn around soon.

Well it's summer fishing at East Pit so...... Very slow . Caught one that was rising after I cast a damsel fly nymph at it and that was it. Not many risers .Saw a school of about 8 in the shallows on the east end but spooked them. Saw one other person bring one in . I left around 10, it was already over 20 degrees outside .

very slow and bad day of fishing at eastpit. a few bites but other then that it sucked.. only saw 2 jumpers the whole day. noone was catching anything. byfar one of the worst days at eastpit ever.

grew up catching perch, walley, pike in northern alberta/sask....never fished trout but have been dying to get out of the city and catch a couple from shore if possible!__Anyone able to provide some tips on what to use for shore casting for trout? any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Smashed a bunch yesterday including one pushing five pounds and lost a freight train!!! Epic day but the lake was just stocked and way to many little ones, got annoying!!! 6 good ones tho! #catchandrelease! # keepemwet!

What's the best gear to have on my line fishing at this lake. Also I know it's a hike down the hill to lake are you allowed bring a canoe.

This is a stocked lake, over 11,000 rainbows are planted every year.

Yeah cause people keep what they catch pretty sad they need to put size restrictions on this lake if not there won't be any fish left

Not many biting today. Only saw 2-3 pulled out of lake today.

I went yesterday and got lots of small one

Caught two in two hours. Both are back swimming. If you wonder why you can't catch anything watch the banks. Too many people keeping everything they catch.

Was out today very slow caught one 15 inches in six hours

Tried around the back side of the lake yesterday for about four hours and nothing

I've tried the very west side a couple days now. No luck. Small spoons and spinners. Maybe more east.

A fair way down the south bank, just walked and covered some water

Which part of the lake? If you don't mind saying?

Sunday there was a bit of action, fished from 6 to 9pm only landed one @ 17.5 inches on a black/gold spinner. Released to fight another fisherman. Few more bites on a bobber and powerbait. Seen a nice leap in the middle of the lake, had to be a 20 inch and a good foot out of water!

Ya no more ice but slow fishing, nothing jumping but managed to pull one in at 14"

Completely open no ice at all. Could actually see them close to shore. Aprx 3 feet by weeds and muck bottom.

Awesome that you.

I went out there on the 14th and it is still fully iced over, maybe a foot around the shore was open. Ice looked thin tho so shouldn't be long!

How is the ice doing out there? Heading out next weekend to see if I can make a few casts.

Ice Report: 16 in
top 4-6 inches is very weak and rotten. The rest of the ice is starting to rot from the bottom. Doesn't take much effort to drill a hole. Do not recommend walking out on ice without propery safety gear, ice picks, rope and someone to help in case you break through.

Has anyone had much luck this winter ice fishing here? I have thrown the kitchen sink at these trout with not much to show. Shrimp, mealworms, power bait, u name it. 1 16"trout and a couple lost at the hole. I have been out 4x times this winter, fished mostly the east end. Any comments???

I was out again today nice day out slow fishing caught one and lost one

Where's a descent spot and where do u access? Never fished this lake before.

I was out yesterday for seven hours caught one and that's the only bite I had very slow

Gonna go out next weekend that's if there's still ice in the pond after this nice weather we been having I'm not complaining tho for a guy that works outside lol

How is ice now after week of weather?

Yeah found that out yesterday. Did alright tho. Got about a dozen but nothing big fished all day.

Jay, no you can't. It is foot access only

Can you snowmobile down to the lake?

Ice Report: 14 in
12" to 14" throughout lake

As of Jan 1, 2015 ice thickness 14". Fished North shore center of lake at about 12' of water. Saw very little with our underwater camera, managed to catch a few on a fluorescent jig with red maggots.

Was there yesterday for five hours caught two nice size lost two

This is for the people who ice fish in tents can you see too the bottom thanks

Was there today for 4hrs, drilled 15 holes no fish was marked. Totally skunked! Another young lad was there moving around all over the lake too, didn't catch a thing either! Ice was 12" thick and the top was all frozen and dry. Nice sunny day but no fish wanted to play!

gromby what was like ice like

Does anybody know ice thickness? Was planning on going tomorow. Thanks.

Sorry for the late response. I am headed out in Sunday to drill a hole

So Newfie did you go and did you catch anything?...

Ice Report: 1 in
Headed out this weekend for a drive to take a look.

Was there yesterday, caught 5 and missed 1. One second year the rest were first year. Kept 2.

Had a good evening at the lake. Fished from about 5pm until dark with my wife. I landed 2 decent ones and my wife lost 1.

Was there today, and caught 3 fish, one was 1.4 lbs. Nice fish! Missed one too. Was fun!

Went out yesterday afternoon. Finally found out what to present after being there for 2 hours with no luck. Get one hooked and I telly daughter I got one on and she says"it would be funny if it gets off". Sure enough I lost it just as I was about to take it out of the water.

How are you guys catching fish here? I was there using marshmallows sitting 2-3'from bottom with no luck.

Shore fishing and only got bites when I went to gulp chartreuse, had 4 on and only landed 1.

A Shore Fishing Marker was added for East Pit Lake
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A HotSpot Marker was added for East Pit Lake
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Very slow day yesterday, I only had two bites nothing to shore and I didn't see anyone else catch a thing! Not many fish even jumping!

Not much biting today very slow

Love this lake, fishings great just wish people would be more respectful and take there trash with them at the end of the day

Caught a few little ones this afternoon. 7-9" in length

Fished on Jun 16 and it was a great day. Lost count of the little ones but tied into 5 nice trout, all 2 -3lbs. Lost a bigger one after his fourth aerial! Several different fly patterns worked really well. Great little lake.

Caught a couple 2 and 3 pounders on the west side of the lake. Nice lengthy hike to get there.
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Ziggy I don't think you're aloud electric motors either. And I went out on the 12th with my brother and probably caught about 20 each. All were around 9", had a good one on and lost it.

As long it's not a gas motor no gas motors on the lake it says that on the sign right at the gate can't tell ya how the fishing is I haven't been out yet myself hope to get out soon

Hey sorry to hear about your rod hopefully it get back to you. <3. Was wondering how the fishing has been this year. Also are you allowed to launch a canoe with a 2hp motor. I know it needs to walked in.

Left my 8'6 echo 3 pc 4 wt fly rod in the parking lot. Would be nice to get it back if you found it so I can continue doing what I love to do.

Small ones but consistent
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Small but regular
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Went out Saturday morning but it was so windy that I couldn't cast out. Left after ten minutes.

Landed one small, but healthy looking rainbow. On a damsel fly nymph

Was thinking of going out this weekend, anyone been out? only have a hand auger and was hoping for an update.

Anybody been out ice fishing lately no post for awhile just wanted to know how the fishing is going

Ice Report: 26 in
Couple bites in roughly 20 feet of water. Slow fishing

I never been here before. I'm told there is a man made lake somewhere in the area is this it? Or is it close by. Also how far is is east pit lake from the highway 16.

Got to the pit at 10:30am and fished until 3:30pm. Got one nibble at about 11:00am and that was it. I was using mealworms for bait.

Ice Report: 8 in
Safe to walk on. Short drill times

Was out on the lake today from 9:00am until 3:00pm, had a couple tip ups set up near the center of the lake and also our rods in the tent but had no bites, used minnows and shrimp. Has anyone else had any luck on this lake?

I have been on the lake on the 21 and 26 of December. On the 21 I fished for an hour and got two rainbows. On the 26 I went with my friends and got 4 rainbow. The ice is 12 inches thick with some slush under. Many bites but I was fishing with some children so they were not fast enough. Will return after the cold snap is over.

Out on the ice today lots of ice there was 5 different groups out today and no bites

Is there any big trout in the lake never fished here before thinkin of trying

Anyone been out to east pit wondering how the ice is

Ya I ice fish there every year it's like every time you go fishing you have your good days and you have your bad days I haven't been there this year I don't know how thick the ice is

Ya I ice fish there every year it's like every time you go fishing you have good days and you have bad days I haven't been out this year I don't know how thick the ice is

Anyone ice fish East Pit with any success? Thinkin about giving it a shot

Was there today had one bite to windy

There is plenty of places to shore fish at East Pit. I've always had luck on the south east side. And yes it is a little way to walk and the hill going down to the lake is long. But there is plenty of places to rest when you go back up.

We're thinking of going to East Pit Lake but can you shore fish there and do you have to walk in quite a ways? Thanks

Went out on the 5th Oct, had lots of luck, landed 9 and took one home to eat. Bottom fished with white marshmallows.

Let's all help and keep our lakes healthy. Report a poacher if you see someone keeping more than 5 fish. Don't want our lakes to dry up.

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Was there on the 1st and had good luck. Landed 6 and lost 6 before 9:30 am. One was over 16 inches, just used white marshmallows.

Today was good. Caught 7 10-inchers and 1 14-inches. Arrived at 8am and started hitting just around 11-12 noon.

Was there on 20th caught 8 incher c&r!

Went Yeasterday got 3 small ones catch and release day

S.A. Went there Aug. 18 from 8am to 12pm got zero

We went there on aug11 fished from 5pm to 10pm the wife out fished me she go 11 nice rainbows I got 3 nice lake to fish very good for kids to

Hope all is catch a release so we can all experience the 6 pounders!

had been there yesterday with friends. waited for 7 hrs but no fish. rowing the tube boat was fun part as whole.

Good in the evening for fly rod and bottom baits
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Awesome day at the pit. 2 on fly rod and 18 on floating jig with worm off the bottom. Had one break me off last night on worm seen him would estimate between 6 or 7 pounds

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Worst day all open water season thus far. 1 bite in 4hrs. Bite was on fly rod. Also tried bottom fishing with powerbait. No bites.

Good day. Caught 4 one was about 16 ins and 3 bout 8 or 9. Great day on da lake.

Been out last couple nights. Prob around 100 fish on fly rod they taking bottom baits to. Lots of little ones and good number of big ones

Anyone fishing here lately? How's the fishing? Thinking about going 2moro. Thanks.

caught a 5.6 pounder today and nine little ones just using a a hook and power bait.

Caught a 4.2 lb out of this one and many little panners
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What kind of spinners and do you use worm with it?

Have fished here the last two weeks 3 -4 times . Hours without a bite on pickerel rig and various power baits and worms . Spinners are working great .

how do u get to this lake?

Anyone know I'd the ice is gone from east pit yet. Would like to get 2moro.

Hopefully by next week it will be ice-free.

Still ice on

Is ice in the lake totally gone?

I think they stock the pond in may not sure tho

As soon as you go down the hill to the left a little bit
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Does anyone know what day and when the stock the lake would like to see it

no you cant drive any truck there. but have a good time with the kids. its a great place for trout. and the trout there are really good to eat.

Can you drive out with a truck thinking about taking the kids out first time for them.

How's the ice right now? Looking to fish this sunday

Meant ice

Went on sat, did not catch anything. Iice under the snow on hill

i was icefishing here a few days ago. was here for around 5 hours and got 5 good size trout,s. saw lots more . this place is awsome

Went here last Sunday didn't see a fish all day. Tried different depths but stayed on the east half of the lake. Dunno what I did wrong

when ice fishing here i find that the trout like jumbo dew worms on peckral rigs and meal worms . i love this place. its awsome for fishing all year long.

what are they biting on?

The best place to catch trout. ice fishing and summer fishing here is amazeing.

Live in wabamun fish here lots. Around may long small spoons and spinners will produce many fish from one lbs to ten lbs. flys work all summer. Pickerel rigs wrk all year.

Never winter killed!! Fish aren't tied up there all over and very nice trout !!.

thought that lake winterkilled? how deep is were u fishin?

12" of ice .. Fish were biting!

It is a long walk to get down there and the water is higher then usual

avoid wading in water, caught lots of fish, but had several leeches and swimmer itch

Good day got several small ones first catch of the day was a 17" 3 pounds 5oz Never gone out there without getting something

Heasing there this weekend any suggestion on a what flies to use?

Fished from 8AM to noon on June 7th. Managed 7 smaller bows on a blue/pink and silver BlueFox spinner. There was a younger guy there who had landed 20+ using small red-devil and five-of-diamond spoons, of all things. Great morning overall, nice quiet little lake.

Geat day. My son caught a 2.5 pounder still fishing and I caught a bunch on a panther Martin.

Tones of little ones all day long bright spinners and nymphs on a fly
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Can you use bait here?

How did you catch a pike bobby theres only bows

Big pike
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Well fishing was good yesterday caught my 5 just to warn all don't eat the fish it's like eating a mud sandwich yuk what a waist !!!!

Ice is 8-10" thick. Fish are not active 1 bite in several hours, lots of poeple fishing notta thing. Couldn't catch a cold.

Whats the ice like ?

Fished for 5 hrs got one bit.

Fished for about 4 hours and got one little guy.

Not 1 bite today.

Fishing is great. Lake comes alive in the evenings. Lots of fish jumping. Had good hits on a bead head fly

have anybody gone o East Pit Lake, just want to know if the lake is totally free of ice.

Fished pretty hard for more than 5 hours without a bite. We tried spoons, spinners and pickeral rig with 2 different kinds of bait. 6 other people were out there with the exact same results.

this is the best place to go trout fishing..very big trout up to 10 pounders have come out of here..my self i had got upto 6 pounders and my friends have got up to 8..i highly recomend this lake..its by far a very great fishing spot