Restoule PP - How's the bite?

[Stoty]

Anyone been fishing Restoule/Stormy/Clear lakes recently?

How's the bite for bass/walleye/pike?

What's the water temp?

 

Any info is much appreciated!

[chrispyke]

Was on the french river side of Restoule Rapids a couple days ago. Water temp around 72 - 73. A few Pike on spinners, some small smailles, but no walleye in the 30' holes. May not be you exact area of interest, but gives you some info.

[atvaholic]

I fished stormy a few weeks back. Had some t-storms whilst up there and didn't do very well. Hope you have better luck...

[Stoty]

Thanks for the replies gents.

[bow slayer]

got back about 2 weeks ago,fishing was hit and miss,if you hit it,it was nuts,lots smallies,pike and walleye,not much musky action...headed back up in a week

[msp]

I will be up there from Thursday to Sunday this week. I will let you know how I make out

[Dave Bailey]

If you have a canoe take the short portage to Hazel Lake, I was on it for about an hour last year and had a lot of whacks, unfortunately didn't get anything to swallow it. Plenty of cover and structure, and your skills are no doubt better than mine, should have success.

[Stoty]

Thanks for the reply Dave, however I will have my Nitro with me.

That might be a little heavy to portage.

[woodenboater]

ah, a come along can pull that Nitro over the trail

[solopaddler]

Some pretty good and underfished Musky in Restoule. Good enough that if I was going Musky would be my target species of choice.

[Dan668]

How did you do? Seen your truck there, i left on friday. Was slower than last year. Landed a few ski's, biggest being 36", all small guys. Managed to land two 20.5" smallies ~5lbs minutes from each other which was pretty awesome. Surprisingly the fish were pretty chunky, lots of bass in the 17-18" all over stormy.

Edited August 12, 2013 by danbob

[msp]

Hey guys,

I was up there from Thursday to Sunday with limited time to fish.

Never fished there before this weekend.

Fished a total of 5 hrs. 1 hour on Restoule and 4 hrs on Clear.

1 hr on Restoule and boated 3 decent smallies ( my son got his first smallie on a top water ) and had a 8- 10 pound musky slash my jerk bait

4 hrs on Clear Lk. The wife gave me a pass to fish for 4 hrs on Sat. Boated a 10 pound musky in the first 10 min of fishing and thought it was going to be a killer day. Figured that the bite was on, I targeted musky with big baits and raised 2 nice muskies to the boat.

Nothing else.

Nice looking lake. Beautifull park. Not sure if I will be back anytime soon. I can see the potential for great fishing. A little far to travel IMO