Hey have any of you guys ever been to Lac La Biche.  I've never fished there before just drove by always.  But now it seems from what I hear that it may be worth a little exploration.  Anyone know how the ice or washwater may be out there?  Anyone have any tips for fishing this lake.  I'd like to go after some perch, pike and walleye.  I know its C and R walleye but guys have been catching some fat ones on the rumor mill.  Also looks like the highest net pulls of perch on the test netting site.

Thanks for the reply.  Yeah I what sorta guessing that would be the scenario.  But it seems there are some big pike and walleye but I might be better off going to a lake I know something about to get them.

From what I know of Lac La Biche  it was over harvested for walleye (commercially) until the walleye collapsed and the perch took off and numbers went wild.  Cormorants moved in and did well as they like to eat a certain size of perch.

A relatively small number of big spawning perch would lay millions of eggs.  They hatch out into millions of little perch.  These little perch just swim around eating everything in sight.  if you are a newly hatched walleye you are usually eaten up by a little perch.  Big perch are a good preditor on little perch but there are not so many big perch.  The cormorants feed heavily on 4 to 6 inch perch. So not many perch grow to be the bigger perch eaters.  Just enough to lay millions of eggs to make millions of little perch.

F&W killed heaps of cormorants so more perch would grow up.  At the same time they stocked huge amounts of small walleye and transplanted big amounts of young adult walleye.

By giving the ecosystem a BIG KICK they have got the lake on the way to having a better balance of fishery.

Thanks for the tips.

Buddy of mine was on the lake a couple days ago,, you guys be the judge..

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Nice!!  That is what has been pulled out of that spot for several years, right Terry?  The "Big Bay" boys pull their nets filled with the walleye, and have "fish fries" for their close "friends".  We will never be able to take even one home for a feed.