Essox

I don't fish that area off Ontario. However until you pull the trigger for boat consider getting some waders. They will greatly enhance your shore fishing capabilities. Also fun way to fish from shore is to target up land stream trout. You find creek-small river with lots of public access or get access from the farmer. Usually if you walk the creek bottom you shouldn't need permission only if you go up on shore. It's fun and you can explore a bit. Then when you shop for a boat 1st do you plan on fishing alone or with or 1 or 2 others. It'd better to get a slightly larger boat but if fishing alone you want to insure it's not to big to handle alone. If you target bass you want a floating dock (bass-boat), or if trolling for lakers or walleye then a deep-V for stability while trolling. Then comes storage can you park it? Don't hesitate the learning curves not bad and you likely won't regret it. I started with a square back canoe, went up to 14' runabout and now have a modest 16.5' Lund

There Air Cochrane likely the closet that goes into real remote areas in the east. They are a pretty lousy outfitter with no amenities including a water pump not. And leaky boats with some questionable motors. I began going to NWO again and the fishing great and it's more beautiful the north eastern James - Hudson's Bay lowlands. Good luck caution with Ivanhoe Outfitters as well. A gem is Kesagami Lodge but it's very expensive. Went there once and caught 60 to 100 walleyes/ per boat per day. Big pike also including some tankers.

the only thing it is a an extremely large lake full of shallow hazards even coming out water >>100'deep.So it can take a while to find them. Then depending on temps and seasonal conditions they move around a bit. We never had a bite for 3 days then killed them. Many very dangerous rocks glad I brought an extra prop. Fish finder said 8' FOW, bang rock out of nowhere and off went 2 blades from my prop and part of my skeg. Just letting you know it's impossible to be too careful and thats hard when your anxious to move between spots. But big lake big fish.

Great video

That's been my experience only ever seen like a handful of the things yet you can hear them t night. I've found the buggers seems quite shy. Terrible about her little dog.

pretty sweet if new in 2010 and it cost >> 60K back then.

Greeting fellow anglers, this is my 1st post on the Ontario Fishing Community forum and thanks for lettings me join and Merry Christmas to all. My favorite lake is the stunning and very remote Lake Nipigon in NWO. Just curious who else targets this wonderful lake? It sits just north of highway 11, never warming up past mid fifties and is a natural wonder with the cliffs, bluffs and raw beauty looking like it was just scrapped up by the glaciers. It can be a big fish lake with record lake (60 lb.+) and brook trout (14lb.+) In the shallows are big pike and tasty walleyes. The lake has special rules to limit damage with only a single barbless hook (can be treble) allowed and special limited creel limits. Also the land surrounding the lake is all crown land with the few cabins only on little Orient bay in the southeast corner being the only exception. Not a lake to be taken lightly with it's being a giant bowl of 60-some by 40-some miles in size. It's daunting the feeling of being alone in an amazing wilderness but also a dangerous one, be prepared. I won't fish it if the winds up to or over 12 mph, or even 10 mph for a northwest wind. Have fished parts of the northeand southeast parts of the laast ke, barely scratched the surface. Only Canada could have a lake like this. What's been your experience fishing on the big lake? Thanks for letting me post.

What's the French and does it have big pike? I like catching walleye (pickerel) but like to go to a lake that has trophy pike potential as well.

We fished North Burntbush with Maurice (True North). The cabin had a gas generator and pump water into the cabin. Also the Cabin was big and very sturdy. We caught about 30 walleyes a day on that lake but most were smaller in size. we also got x2 20 pound + pike. For some reason this lake was not included in the sale - transfer to CAS? I also fished Edgar which produced more and bigger walleyes as well pike up to 45" 25 pounds. Note: We do a length - girth calculation to obtain the weight. However we've done worse as well with Polar Bear Outfitters when we flew into Chappa Lake the fishing was awful. We had trouble getting enough for a fish fry, nothing > 4 or 5 pounds all week with 4 guys. Brailey was a nice easy to fish lake but the walleye were finicky. started to catch more late in the week when I switched to jigs and worms. As you probably know jigs tend to give a higher % of hook sets since the hook is in line. I was trying to use lures that appealed to both pike and walleyes like X-Raps. It seems you were better off either fishing for one species or the other on Brailey. This was not necessary true on North Burntbush and Edgar where both pike and walleyes (pickerel) readily took X-Raps. I'd like to here more of your experiences in the Cochrane area Moosebunk?

They flew us in a day early so it was 7.5 days. Due to storms were stuck in a cold small cabin for almost another 1.5 days. They warned us it could sleep 4 but was designed for 2 they were right.

Had a good trip to Brailey. Between the 2 of us we caught ~ 100 pike and ~50 pickerel. Walleye were small to nice (12 to 21)". Most pike were between (1 to 4) pounds. We got a big 40" pike that was about 20 pounds, next biggest fish was at 36" about 10 pounds (didn't have the girth). Fished the river with poor results. Cabin was small and they didn't leave us any useful firewood (to big to fit into woodstove) oh well.

Went to Edgar, Did great. I myself got about 80 pik's and 80 pike. My biggest pike was 35" very wide ~ 15 pounds. However my brother got a 45", what a monster. We've typically done poorly with spoons (although I'm going to try Williams Whitefish this year). We caught the larger pike on large jerkbaits. Walleye trolling stickbaits and casting jigs_worm. Good pik fishing around the Island near camp.

WE usually got them pickerel (walleye), a bit shallower. 3 to 6 feet in June, 6 to 10 feet in July - August. So you go deeper in the fall? BTW any spinner worm combo as well as a jig and worm combo or Rapala stickbait usually works for pics for me.

I have only been to Edgar of the Air Cochrane lakes the fishing was very good. If you have some data on Brailey I would be most appreciative? We are heading there in 9/15.

Hi All, Were are going to fly into Brailey Lake via Air Cochrane in mid September / 2015. It's a small spring fed lake that's supposed to have ample pickerel (walleye) and some large pike. Has anybody fished this little lake about 50 air miles from base camp. If so what you caught. Also how you caught them would be much appreciated. I generally jigs for pickerel and use big jerkbaits for pike. We fished Edgar years ago via Air Cochrane and did good with the pickerel (walleyes) and caught some very large pike. We also fished North Burntbush when True North was operating and did very well with lots of (mainly smaller) pickerel and big pike. Thank you and tight lines, Essox