Hello to everyone. I have been reading the posts here for several months and I wanted to share a trip that I just returned from in Ontario on June 23rd.
I took my 11 year old son to Lady Evelyn Lake Garden Island Lodge for 7 days. Not too much information is out on the web about Lady Evelyn Lake so it was a gamble on my part to take a first timer out on but I was happy I did. My friend posted a topic for me here several months ago asking for information on the lake but nobody ever fished it.
It is near New Liskeard and we had to take a long boat ride to the island but the the staff at Garden Island was very helpful once we got there. They take all of your gear and luggage to your cabin which was very nice. The boats were customized Lunds with a 25hp 4 stroke, extremely clean and maintained.
The food was ok, great breakfasts, lunch was pbj, tuna, or egg sandwiches, and dinners were average. Again, the staff was always willing to help out an 11 year old who didn't like the menu items.
The wind was very bad on the lake and for several days the waves for 1-2 feet consistent with a couple of 4 foot rollers that made you reach for your pfd.
Fishing was good but we had some drastic weather changes. The water temp on arrival was 75 degrees F. 3 days later it was 63 degrees F. We wanted to catch Pike but they weren't very active. The walleyes were and here are some pictures of my son catching his first pike and walleye's of his life. He did pretty much everything himself on his first trip. He only fished local ponds and rivers for an hour here and there so for him to make it through 7 days of fishing all day and some nights was great.
He caught a blue walleye which aren't supposed to get very big but his was 25 inches and very nice looking. He wasn't ready to hold it so I had to for the picture but he reminds me that it was his fish.
Bass season was starting the day we left so we couldn't fish for them but a few went after our baits and he ended up catching a nice one. A lot of smaller small mouth were caught but nothing huge.
I have more pictures but I could only post these ones for now. If anyone has any interest in going there in the future just let me know and I can answer any questions.
