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Welcome to Mack's fishing page. This is a repository for photos from my annual fishing trips to
Wiley Point Lodge. Wiley Point Lodge is located in Ontario, Canada on Lake of the Woods. This lake is predominantly within the Canadian border, but the southwest portion is in Minnesota (okay, some is in Manitoba, too). This lake is 90 miles long and 55 miles wide, has 14,582 islands and 65,000 miles of shoreline. The location of Wiley Point Lodge on the lake is indicated on the map below. There are numerous lodges on the lake, but this one is far from any of the "large" towns such as Sioux Narrows and Kenora. I welcome the isolation, minimal boat traffic, and lack of "competition". The lake is renowned as a fisherman's paradise, and has produced many record breaking Lake Trout, Walleye, Northern Pike and Muskie. Large and smallmouth bass are also quite abundant. Beaver, otters, deer, bald eagles, loons, mallards, moose, bears, and a variety of turtles are commonplace.
Walleye are one of the best tasting fresh water fish (northern pike are pretty good, too), and this lake is one of the best walleye lakes in the world. Therefore, most fishermen come to the lake to catch their legal limit of walleye. I release everything I catch, so I'm interested in fish that are fun or challenging to catch. Walleye fishing isn't nearly as fun IMHO, so I don't fish for them. Huge pike, fighting bass, and elusive mammoth muskie are what I like to fish for. Besides, Wiley Point Lodge catches, cleans and batter-fries walleye every day for lunch if you want it, so I can catch the fun-to-catch fish and eat the good-to-eat fish. I've gone five times so far, and have decided that spring rather than fall is the best time. The pike are still in the weed beds, so they're easier to find (they go deep in the summer, and trolling a deep-diving crank bait to catch them is BOOOORING), and the mosquitos aren't yet a problem. The weather can turn foul quickly, so late- rather than mid-May is the target. Also, the staff at the Lodge are fresh in the spring. We went at the end of the season in 2002, but the staff were burned out, and they were running out of some supplies. Enough rambling. Click one of the links to the left of the map to see pictures from that particular trip. For a list of required and recommended equipment, click here. |
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