Greetings to all my fishing friends. It has been a little while since I wrote my last post and a lot has changed since then. The first thing is the new Alberta fishing licenses have been issued and are now available at all locations where you buy fishing tackle. These include Wholesale Sports, Russell Sports, all Canadian Tire locations, and all Wall-Mart locations as well. Click here for a complete listing. A fisherman who plans on fishing in Alberta needs to renew his/her fishing license before heading out to the water. The old fishing license expired Mar 31 and you will need a new license now. I obtained a copy of the fishing regulations guide when I received my license and have already read up on some of the new additions to the guide.
One new and improved service I saw while browsing through the book was the new website the Alberta government has created to make us a little lazier and not have to physically leave our houses to get a new license. The name of the new site is called Albertarelm seen here https://www.albertarelm.com/ and will enable you to print your license right off your printer at home. This will be great for those who are in a hurry and do not have time to drive and wait in those big line ups at the local tackle store.
I encourage you all to read the regulations and familiarize yourself with all the rules included in this guide. We all need to be aware of where and when we can fish under the government regulated rules. I also encourage you to read the stories in the back of the guide, there are some great tips from some excellent fisherman found here. Have fun learning and keep you license with you at all times while fishing or transporting fish, it is the law.
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Depends a lot on where you are in this beautiful state, if you have the lxruuy of being either coastal or on the Indian River Lagoon or another of our estuaries, you don’t even need to start with a fishing license, it isn’t a requirement for fishing saltwater as long as you are on a dock bridge pier or other structure permanently affixed to shore or wade-fishing in no more than 4 feet of water.Get a rig and get some shrimp, go to your closest salt water, put a shrimp on a hook, throw it out, and wait. There’s all kinds of good fish around, within 2 miles of my house, I can go out and get (on a good day, of course, because well, I’m not one of those people who catches something decent every time I go out ) seatrout, redfish, mangrove snapper, snook, etc., etc. On a bad day at least I can usually say I got to unhook a catfish or a puffer, or feel bad for a 5 7 inch trout Pick up a booklet on fishing regulations (get them free at the tag agency) preferrably with a handy-dandy fish identification section (always nice to know what you’re catching ) and have fun.Good luck and happy fishing.Edited to add .Thanks, Exert, I may not be the best fisherperson around, but darn it, I know my rules. at least in salt water .Oh, line test . I personally like 20 (just that wishful thinking that maybe I’ll catch something I need it on ) but I’m using 6 lb test diameter powerpro right now . fit a lot more line on your reel . I won’t vouch for any of the other claimed benefits, because I just got a new rig that needed line on it .. I went from maybe $ 20 worth of fishing equipment to nearly $ 300 in the course of a day (Having a new job with a boss who fishes tournaments has it’s advantages )