Ya!. it mostly an ontario thing.

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.The spots are big, we have family friends that live in dryden that fish alot so we get taken to all the good spots when we go. Closer to shore near rock cliffs can usually find some bass, usually stick to walleye though, rather fish/catch the stuff we would rather eat.......be VERY careful of slot size, and alcohol as well, you can be in the middle of bum f**k nowhere and resource officers will show up on their boat to check your fish for slot size and to check for alcohol as well.......Lac Seul you have to be VERY careful on that lake, its a man made lake where land was flooded for a dam, so underwater trees are common. when lake levels are low there are some crossings between islands that can get SUPER shallow, so you have to keep your eyes open (and you will catch wood).........but as i said, resource officers WILL find you, was on a lake that you had to throw the boat on the back of the truck, truck had a foot lift on it and you needed it to get to the lake, barely made it through a river crossing and had to carry the boat the rest of the way.....when we got back the resource officer was standing there waiting......and been approached many times by NRO by boat...................cant remember the names of the other lakes for the life of me

 

I know lots of spots in Alberta man. If you come up here lemme know and Ill even join ya. We have Northern Pike, Walleye, Sauger, Burbot, Rainbow trout, Brook trout, Bull trout, 5 different suckers, carp, goldeye, mooneye, yellow perch, tulibee, dolly varden, and a few others. Northern Pike is my favorite fish to catch, I float tube for them and cast lures into the cat tails to get the most fish in a day. They seem to like the shallows along the edges of lakes. They have been caught over 20 pounds, my biggest is about 10. Burbots are ugly, but man are they ever good to eat. They are hard to catch cause they wont take any lures and stuff. We catch them with chopped up tubilee or bacon on a treble hook, and just leave it on the bottom like you americans would for catfish. Cant really catch and release these fish cause they swallow the hooks everytime.

You havent lived until you get a 50+ pound king salmon on in a raging river on BC's coast. Talk about a workout. That will be the only fish you haul in that day cause your arms will be dead. Samon season is Oct-Nov.

I cant help with eastern canadas fish species, Im a prarie boy.

 

Thanks again for the help guys. Much appreciated.

Ohsofly that would be awesome to have someone from the forum show us around and join us, however that would be a HAUL to get to you in Alberta.

Blazinloud, thanks for your insight too .

 

Easy there fella... Real classy...

I could suggest some places but you'd be looking at a 2+ day drive to get to where I want to go. 18 hours for me to get to Kenora ON.(2 hrs east of Winnipeg).

My suggestions are to look in the logging roads around Dryden, or even going north of Kenora to Caribou falls on the Winnipeg river. Huge freaking hydro electric dam (my grandfather was foreman for construction ) and all the walleye fishing you want. Lots of fish around there. There's some pretty good fishing holes on Lake of the Woods too in and around Kenora... hell there's hotels on the shore with docks lol. The only thing I can warn you about Caribou is the First nations groups (who in those parts are typically always drunk) might want money for you to fish on their land... which they aren't allowed to do but they still will. If you go in the fall there's some pretty good deer/ small game hunting in those parts too. Don't confuse Kenora with Caribou.

OH, don't fish at the base of a hydro dam (well you can) but not only is it dangerous you'll get slapped with a heafty fine.