This has been my favorite place to fish for nearly fifty years. To say that this lake is huge is an understatement. It is over seventy miles long and wide, and contains over 14,500 islands and 65,000 miles of shoreline. In all those years I have probably been up there about 25 times and I have only fished a small part of the southeast section of the lake. I have been there with my brother, dad, kids, grand kids and regular fishing partners Jim and Denise that treat us as part of their family.
We like to go both early and late in the year. Early is usually late May when the ice on the lake has just left the lake and the fish are hungry. Late is somewhere around October first and is it cold and miserable weather usually, but fishing is great then.
We usually drive in to the town of Morson and park at the Government dock or at Gills Marina. The camp owners in that area will pick you up and transport you to the island where their camp is located. For many years we have enjoyed Miles Bay Camp. Family owned and managed for three generations, first by Rex Tolton, then his son Larry and now Larry’s son Matthew, it is a relaxed and unhurried retreat.
Over time I have gotten very familiar with certain parts of the lake and have only gotten lost once, but that was due to a broken sheer pin on the motor and is a story for another day. I am most familiar with the area around Miles Bay, Obabikon Bay, Obabikon Lake, and to a lesser extent, Burrow Bay. But all of that covers a lot of water and hundreds of islands.
We usually manage to catch regular limits of Walleye, Crappie and Smallmouth without too much effort. Northern Pike take a little more effort and Muskie even more so. But if you fish smart, hard and target those two species you will not be disappointed. It is a much rarer event when someone takes a Largemouth. If you target Perch you can score regular limits of them also. Every once in a rare while we manage to pick up a Tullibee, they are good fighters and are a lot of fun on light tackle.
The structure where we fish is mostly rocky humps so one can easily fish light and ultra light tackle and only occasionally lose a fish because of structure. But because we like to fish jigs on the bottom, we manage to lose a lot of them to the rocks. But as the saying goes, “if you are not losing jigs, you are not fishing for Walleye”.
