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Walleye Fishing
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Ontario Walleye
Walleye thrive in a range of Quetico Park river and lake conditions from cold, clear water to warm, weedy and stained water. Preferred cover includes weed, wood and rock. Bottom types can be anything from soft mud to flooded timber, rubble or bedrock.
The walleye is a light-avoiding fish, caught most often under low light conditions. Fishing is generally best on cloudy or overcast days, or on days when waves keep light from penetrating too deeply into the water.
Casting or trolling with spinners or minnow-imitating plugs is a good bet. Special worm harness rigs of spinners and beads are often trolled. Jigs, either traditional bucktails, or tipped with any of the modern plastics, a piece of worm or minnow are walleye angling favorites.
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Northern Pike Fishing
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Ontario Northern Pike
Northern Pike are widely distributed in Northwestern Ontario. Northern pike prefer weedy bays, estuaries and shoals as spring and summer habitat. During cool autumn days pike are most likely to seek deeper water.
Pike are aggressive feeders through spring, summer and fall and continue to be caught through the ice during the winter months. Pike will take just about every kind of live and artificial bait, including very large streamer flies. How to Fillet Northern Pike
Filleting a Northern Pike
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Lake Trout Fishing
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Ontario Lake TroutThe lake trout, like other members of the char family, is typically northern in distribution. They occur across the deep, cold lakes of Quetico Park. Lake trout normally inhabit only lakes with a depth greater than 15 meters (50 feet).
In spring, just after ice goes out, lake trout are found near the surface and can be taken on a fly rod, or with spinners, spoons and plugs. As the water warms up they go deep and must be sought with special deep-water tackle -- wire line, lead-core line, downriggers, diving planers, etc. Large spoons, spinners and plugs are good summer trolling baits. Jigging, or still-fishing with large, dead minnows in deep water, are sometimes effective in summer. Ice fishing for lake trout is often done with minnows or lake herring, or, by jigging with spoons and jigs with bait attached.
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Muskellunge Fishing
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Ontario MuskellungeLess than one per cent of the world's fresh water holds the mighty muskellunge and much of that water is in Northern Ontario.
The muskellunge is usually found concealed among aquatic plants at the sides of channels, or off shelving rocks and offshore shoals in lakes and rivers in summer. It moves into the shallow waters in the fall.
Because of its large size and fighting qualities, the muskellunge is one of Ontario's most renowned game fish. Heavy casting tackle is used because of the great strength of this fish, which can reach weights of over 22 kg. (50 pounds).
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Smallmouth Bass Fishing
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Ontario Smallmouth BassSmallmouth Bass are found in Lakes and rivers that are clear enough and rocky enough to be suitable for trout, but in which the water temperature is too high for trout. Bass concentrate around shoreline rocks and points as well as offshore shoals, often in deep water.
Small, deep-diving plugs and lures, and surface lures (in early morning and evening) are effective. But soft plastic lures in the form of crayfish imitations, twister tails and small worms or tubes are among the best smallmouth baits. These are often fished deep, in combination with a jig.
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Perch Fishing
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Ontario Yellow PerchYellow Perch are widely distributed throughout Northern Ontario.
Perch are most numerous where there are expanses of open water and moderate amounts of vegetation. They often school, and share water with species such as walleye and bass. Perch show a preference for the natural food upon which they are feeding at the time. The live minnow gives the best success at all seasons of the year.
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