Onaping lake

[lawson721]

Heading up to the south end of Onaping lake in a few weeks can’t find a lot of info about it anything I’ve heard was the north is great fishing does anyone have any experience on this part of the lake any tips or help would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance cheers

[wmshaw]

Hi, I fished this lake last year and caught lots of smallies.  Almost everywhere we went in the lake there was an awesome smallie bite.  We were trying for walleye but had no success.  We then drove another half hour north to Three Corner Lake and caught walleye in various spots in the lake.

[sparky302]

I'm a local and fish this lake often catching walleye in numbers on this lake you need to travel up pass the hole in the wall which is a good 20 miles up from the government landing i have caught walleye around the islands also before the big water.

[lawson721]

Yeah we were staying in the southern end of the lake we only had a 14’ with a 15hp we wouldn’t of made it up to the top we caught a few small walleye in the first couple days and the bite turned off lots of smallies around no pike I’ve been told the southern end gets a lot of pressure all in all it was a beautiful lake but fishing could have been better 

[sparky302]

42 minutes ago, lawson721 said:

Yeah we were staying in the southern end of the lake we only had a 14’ with a 15hp we wouldn’t of made it up to the top we caught a few small walleye in the first couple days and the bite turned off lots of smallies around no pike I’ve been told the southern end gets a lot of pressure all in all it was a beautiful lake but fishing could have been better 

Yes fishing in the southern end is tougher i run a 21 .5 foot pontoon with the full enclosure so we go up the north end and sleep right on the pontoon the walleye fishing up 30 plus miles is really good and if you go past the 18 mile narrows you will find more pike the smallmouth fishing i find is better in the southern end of the lake.