Best Walleye Fishing in Canada for "Big Ones"

[DustyBudd]

I am from Manitoba, Canada. I am doing some research and I am trying to find some fly-in lakes and lodges that have the greatest walleye fishing in North America. I am not taking about numbers, but big walleyes over 28 inches. If there is anyone out there that can help with names of lake or lodges and more importantly some actual figures, please pass the information alone to me. Thank you, Dusty Budd

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[BenBeattie]

The Bay of Quinte (eastern Lake Ontario) in Southern Ontario is widely regarded as the best trophy walleye fishery in the world.

[lobo1]

Originally Posted by BenBeattie

The Bay of Quinte (eastern Lake Ontario) in Southern Ontario is widely regarded as the best trophy walleye fishery in the world.

I wouldnt trade my fly-in or remote drive-in trip(s) to the far north for anything - there are some big fish up there but that isn't all we look for in a trip. We can catch the big ones (eyes) right here at home......and more of them - than we can on any of our canada trips. I dont care where you go up north - you just aren't going to find the hogs you get down below - on a regular basis.

I would agree with Ben and Bill that your real hog fish are going to come from the Great Lakes premium destinations where you can CPR numerous trophy fish on any given good day.

I have had days here in Michigan where I have had to struggle to catch anything to bring home for the pan under 7-8 pounds.

Lakers and brookies are another story - those hawgs they get way up north are hard to duplicate any place else on earth.

I guess what I am saying is that if you are just looking for enormous walleyes you might have to look other places besides fly-ins at far north destinations.

That all said...........would I love to go to GODSLAKE, or GUNNISAO or GREAT SLAVE or any of the others - YOU BET !!!!! I would live at Canadian fishing camps all soft water season long - if I could afford it!!

lobo1

[IRISHATTACK]

Good for you Geary, if you have a lake that has quality fish in it, I would talk it up also. What is wrong with saying a lake is good. A good, honest camp owner should tell you that there are trophy fish in it, if there really is. I do not hear or see anyone saying Nungesser does not. I have talked with many of owners who swear they have big fish and clearly do not. They just want your money.

[Larry Mac]

I have never fished Nungesser Lake personally but I have friends who fished the lake out of Anglers Kingdom this year (2009). They have fished Canadian lakes like me for many years and they said they have never caught the quantity and quality of walleye like that in their life. Their son's pictures are posted on their website holding some absolutely beautiful walleye (their name is Wulf). Nungesser Lake is on my bucket list of lakes to fish. Have a great year.

Thank you,
Larry Mac

[manitobawalleye]

Originally Posted by DustyBudd

I am from Manitoba, Canada. I am doing some research and I am trying to find some fly-in lakes and lodges that have the greatest walleye fishing in North America. I am not taking about numbers, but big walleyes over 28 inches. If there is anyone out there that can help with names of lake or lodges and more importantly some actual figures, please pass the information alone to me. Thank you, Dusty Budd

fly-in lakes only.....
aikens right here in manitoba used to kick out some real trophys....
i have not looked at the master angler info for a few years.....
a resource i am sure you would be using for your research...

[LeeMB]

with your last name I would think Gunnisao would top your list.

[Bill Krejca]

Dust -

Some conventional wisdom preaches that as you go farther north, i.e., some of the "fly-in's", the walleye average smaller due to cooler water and a shorter "growing" season. It may be that the numbers caught can be quite large while the size may not equal fish found in water farther south. Having not done a study, I don't know, so I can't debate the issue. The point being, that perhaps larger average fish are to be found south of many of the very good fly-in camps.

Bill Krejca

[manitobawalleye]

http://www.godslakelodge.com/

the stats from 2007
114 trophy walleyes
246 trophy brook trout
134 trophy lake trout
309 trophy northern pike

probably the best fly-in multi species trophy water in manitoba.....
the 114 trophy walleyes mixed in with the premier brook trout fishery in manitoba....
makes it somewhere i want to visit.....