Iron Creek Fish and Game calls it quits

After 48 years, the members of the Iron Creek Fish and Game Association have decided to disband.

For the first time in many years, they were not able to hold their annual Family Day Fishing Derby at Fish Lake this year.

Members met a few weeks before the event was to take place, and decided that they did not have the manpower to continue to operate.

In an agreement with the Village of Lougheed, the Trout Pond, and adjacent campsite, would revert back to the Village if both parties agreed, says Vern Simpson, long-time member of the association.

Also long-time member, and village deputy Mayor Sonny Losness says the pond will still be stocked this year, but who will take over the management and funding is yet to be determined.

“For this year, Alberta Conservation will list the site as the Lougheed Trout Pond,” says Losness.

Losness says that the Association still has its society designation.

“I think people want the club to exist,” says Losness, “but the executives have been doing it for a lot of years.

“It’s still there, for now, if there are new people who want to do the work.”

Read the full story in the April 30, 2013 Edition of The Community Press, on newsstands now!