Looking for advice on what to look for to find walleye on Lake Kipawa. My camp is in Jawbone bay, Looking for recommendations on good walleye spots near the south end of the lake - any help would be appreciated.
Also what technique/presentations are you using to catch walleye mid summer?
Looking forward to two weeks in paradise at the end of July.
Thanks
For a start you might want to specify what type of fish you're looking for. As for techniques I would suggest you browse through the numerous trip reports around the time you plan on being there. Cheers
Thanks Smitty, I'm fishing for everything but mainly targeting walleye.
I have personally never fished that area of the lake, but I'm confident there are some fertile waters close-by somewhere.
Not sure if you've ever been to Lake Kipawa or not, but asking "where to fish" is not that simple...even just asking where to fish for walleye. Massive body of water, and each part of it is different. The right question is "what should I look for to catch walleye in mid-summer". And I would tell you "jigging mid-lake shoals". Find those...find fish.
Thanks T-Bone! Yes I have been lucky enough to be coming to Kipawa for the last 20 years, mostly when I was a kid and didn't get to fish as often as I would've liked to. I have fished the south area of the lake with a decent amount of success in the past 2-3 summers. I understand the lake is massive, and it seems this summer I will look to push more north and explore and find some bigger fish. I appreciate the help!
Seems like no matter where we've been in Ontario or Quebec, mid-summer means trolling weed lines and jigging shoals for walleyes. Sometimes a good steep edge against a weed line would hold scattered fish so trolling seems more effective for that situation. T-Bone is spot on with the mid-lake shoal jigging too.
Quote from: TeamEsox on June 25, 2024, 04:52:25 PMSometimes a good steep edge against a weed line would hold scattered fish so trolling seems more effective for that situation.
You won't find many weed lines in the area I fish, but a steep (really steep) edge is very solid advice. We have a steep edge spot we call The Walleye Highway. When they are there it's rush hour. But we are anchored and jigging right on it.
Quote from: Jawbone19 on June 19, 2024, 09:05:25 PMThanks T-Bone! Yes I have been lucky enough to be coming to Kipawa for the last 20 years, mostly when I was a kid and didn't get to fish as often as I would've liked to. I have fished the south area of the lake with a decent amount of success in the past 2-3 summers. I understand the lake is massive, and it seems this summer I will look to push more north and explore and find some bigger fish. I appreciate the help!
Well if you've been going up for that long I'm sure you must have seen concentrations of boats in the evenings and into dark in that area, that would be a good place to start. Looking at the depth chart there's a good size shoal that comes up to over 10ft off the western bottom end of Bronson Isle and another one to the northwest of there that comes up to that long thin island, both of which have 100ft+ deep water
not too far away. I'd be thinking of trying them come evening time or else earlier after a period of steady NW winds.