The backroads fishing was very good.FireFox wrote:Hey Scuro,
In one part you say that "The fishing was unremarkable, typical of Southern Ontario " -- does that mean that Nipigon was not good fishing ? I think the big lakes are generally harder to fish -- 90% of the fish in 10% of the water.
Fox
Reflection lake resort is on the most accessible arm of Lake Nipigon. I believe there is another resort or two on this same section along with cottages and boat ramps. The rest of Lake Nipigon is nothing like this arm and I have heard that you can go days on the main lake and see few people or no one. Being there I heard great things about lake Nipigon from others, it's a huge lake that gets little pressure. That doesn't mean that this one section of it doesn't get pressure. As I said in the post, it could have been the bad weather that we experienced over the week and that the region experienced for much of month. Yet from other guests and even the owner's son. I saw and heard the walleye fishing was tough. I wouldn't rent the boat in the evenings but watched the owner's 30ish year old son leave spots without catching a thing. I was with my brother in law so thought it better that we fish for pike. Some spots that just looked perfect needed a lot of work to pull out any pike. He got skunked one morning. I had better pike action down at the Red Rock harbour.
There was one couple that came from Michigan. They brought two boats. One an 18ft with a good sized motor for Lakers on the main lake and then a 12 ft that they had put on top of the 18 ft to haul which they used for backroad fishing. They came back with awesome walleye.
