The Alberta Conservation Association and Alberta Environment and Parks stock select ponds with rainbow, brook or brown trout which anyone is allowed to catch and take home.

"[The trout] get stocked at about 20 centimetres, they might grow a little bit over the summer but they are meant for eating," says fishing expert Michael Sullivan.

Beaumont Pond, about 40 minutes south of downtown Edmonton, has a spray park, ice cream truck, as well as hiking and biking trails around it. It's right in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Beaumont, making it easily accessible.