Lake Nipigon

Closest Town:  Thunder Bay, Ontario

Lake Size:  4,848 Sq. Kilo.

Fishing Species:  Specializing in Trophy Brook Trout.  Walleye, Northern Pike and Lake Trout also caught.

Public Boat Access:  Locations include:

On South Bay, off Pine Portage Rd

At Poplar Point on the east shore

At Gull Bay and Chief Bay on the west shore

Lake Notes:  Max depth of 165 m.  500+ Islands.  Worlds largest Brook Trout caught here at over 14 lbs.  The best bays are South, Chief, Orient, and McIntrye. Good pike are also found around Shakespeare and Kelvin Islands and along the west shore.  Big pike hang around shallow bays in June and early July, but they're spooky and tough to catch. Cast large bucktails or jerkbaits to weedbeds from mid-August to mid-September, when the largest pike come shallow and feed. The monsters hang around the deep edges of rocky reefs and in backbays that have cabbage beds. Some spots are less than 50 feet (15 m) square, yet I've taken 30-pound pike off such tiny weedbeds and have had larger fish follow.  Lake Nipigon drains south into Lake Superior thru the Nipigon River.  Lake Nipigon is 90+ miles long and 65 miles wide.  The lake freezes in late December and the ice breaks up in late April to early May.

Lake Nipigon Map

Lake Nipigon Fishing Species

Lake Nipigon Walleye

Lake Nipigon Northern Pike

Lake Nipigon Lake Trout

Lake Nipigon Brook Trout

Lake Nipigon Whitefish

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