wvmedic

Love the pictures, that first one is great. Thank you for sharing.

Jeff

smitty55, we went in on the Bearn Rd. I really want to try Kipawa, not sure which Lodge I want to use yet though.

sandbag, have a fun safe trip and yes the fishing is very good.

Jeff

Thanks Joeytier, yes you are correct. We did stay at the Canadian, not a bad place to stay johnnywalleye has been staying there for years on his trips to the Kipawa area.

Jeff

Thanks Whopper, I'm learning.

Still on the hunt for a place not as far in the bush, so Momma will go.

She liked the scenery on the French and loves Nipissing, but I want her to experience Quebec also.

Jeff

can u fish,

Is that a Zec? From what I can tell looking at the site from my phone, looks like a place I would like to visit.

Do they have cabins available, and do most speak English, my French is non existent.

Jeff

adempsey, I want to fish Lake Kipawa in the near future.

floater, yes the roads can be pretty bad, though this year they were in decent shape. The fees are not to bad, they did tac on a $15.00 fee per tent this year on top of the Zec fee though.

Glad you folks liked the pictures.

Jeff

@OhioFisherman

Thank you, date is fixed. Don't know where my mind went.

Jeff

Thought I would share some pictures of this years Zec Kipawa trip, we were there from July 24th to 30th. The weather was very hot, we did well though. I was very surprised to find that 90% of our fish was caught in 3 to 8 FOW, we only caught 10 to 20 Walleye in 16 FOW and they were suspended at about 10 feet deep.

We arrived camp on Friday the 24th and setup camp, we finished early enough to get about 2 hours of fishing in. We fished early morning and late afternoon finishing up Wednesday evening and packing out Thursday morning for the trip home.

With the heatwave in effect, my fishing partner and I still managed to boat nearly 100 Walleye in the little over 5 days and an unknown number of Northern. The numbers of Northern I would say was about equal to the Walleye, no big Northern but many above average.

The Northern Express.

Some scenery.

Now for some fish. I did manage to catch a few fish on a jig, this time with a plastic trailer. My fishing partner and I decided to spend Wednesday afternoon in a back bay known for Northern just casting and swimming jigs for Pike. All of the Pike were hammer handles but it was a blast, I managed one Walleye while casting for Pike as well.

 

Jeff

 

 

Thank you Cast-Away.

Jeff

Man what an awesome trip, thank you for sharing.

Hope I can talk Momma into doing one of those someday.

Jeff

Thanks for the report and pictures, looks like a great time was had by all.

Jeff

Anyone have any experience on Lake Panache?

I have a friend who has fished it twice and recommended it to me, problem is. He sometimes stretches things a bit, he doesn't do it in a malicious way. He just loves to talk and he is a great Guy.

With that being said, I would like to get a second or third opinion.

Thanks, Jeff

Thanks for the offer manitoubass2, I will give you a shout. I plan on fishing somewhere north of our border the last week of July or the first week of August 2016.

Jeff

manitoubass2, looking for quality numbers. Don't have to catch a 100 a day, would like a chance at a 10 pounder.

Jeff

Gerritt,

I was thinking the same thing.

I would and am looking over the maps for sheltered areas. I was white knuckled on the tiller when a storm blew in on the west arm of Nipissing at the first of the month. I was running as hard as I could to get out of the wind in some sheltered water.

Jeff

manitoubass2,

I'm not opposed to those areas. I need to look into driving times and such, thank you for the suggestions. Those are on my radar, and have been on my bucket list of sorts.

Jeff

North East Shark, thanks. The Spanish looks good.

Jeff

jeremy84, I might be a little off geographically. I'll see if I can fix the heading.

I was thinking of somewhere around Wawa area. That would be around an 850 mile drive from home for me.

Jeff

Just wanted to add, my 14' is a Lowe 140v. So it is a bit wider and deeper than the average 14' tinny.

Jeff

Hello all.

I'm just back from my second trip to Beautiful Canada this year, well this month.

Started on the French River and Lake Nipissing the last week of June finishing up our vacation on July 3rd spending our 32nd wedding anniversary fishing with my best fishing partner ever.

To my trip to Quebec fishing in the Zec Kipawa with the guy's, between the two boats we boated close to 200 Walleye for the week most between 16 and 23 inches. At a guess, I would say we boated nearly 100 Northern Pike in the 25 to 32 inch range.

So I am home 2 days and am already planning next years trip. I have never been to Western Ontario and I think I would like to see it as well.

Looking for a good to exelant Walleye fishery with not to expensive cabins or modern camping facilities and my 14' 9.9 hp tinny would be acceptable on.. Not to far into the bush, my Wife would not go to Quebec with me, we were close to 3 hours into the bush from town.

So what would be your top 5 Western Ontario Walleye fishing destinations? I forgot to mention, I would prefer just northwest of Sault Ste Marie around Wawa.

Thanks, Jeff

No that Ladies and Gentlemen is what it's all about, limeyangler thank you for sharing. Looks like three generations in the boat fishing together to boot.

Jeff

lunkerbasshunter, I wondered about the weather patterns affecting our fishing. Also there were mayflies all over the place.

Rod Caster, indeed it was a beauty was released to swim the French to grow even bigger.

Jeff

bigcreekdad, I had the same experience last week on the French. I was also curious if the bite was off because of them feeding heavily on the mayflies because there were hoards of them.

Jeff

Gerritt, hope everything comes out well without any deficits. Maybe it was caught early enough you'll have no permanent issues.

Thanks Joey,we had fun and caught some nice fish to boot.