Canyon Lake

[hoooch]

Considering a mid-summer all species trip to Canyon Lake, ON this summer. Have heard the lake is a numbers Muskie lake with an occasional trophy. Any information would be appreciated. I'll be chasing Muskies but my buddies will also want Walleye and Smallmouth action.

[MuskyBrian]

Im going to Canyon and The Indian Chain in July, I have also been there before a few years ago in June. It is a great Lake. It is definetely a numbers lake, the experience I had was that a lot of your 30-36's are more agressive and much easier to catch. However, in a week of fishing, our cabin and another group of about 6 guys boated at least 6 Muskies over 40". I raised one pushing 50, they are definetely in there. They are all over the lake really. Towards the back end of the lake where it gets narrow ( you can see this on the map) there are sunken logs on each side of the lake, there are definetely big musky and walleyes around there. They also congregate on your typical reefs where you will find walleye.Guys who walleye fish gets musky chasing them up to the boat all the time. The best success we had though was fishing the bullrush. In the morning, and then again especially at night, we would hit an entire bay full of the bullrush, and usually found a lot of action. When the sun went down, it was topwater time. A Ton of strikes, a ton of splashes, but few hookups. Still a great time though.
Another thing you might want to try...A few spots on the lake have sandy beach areas. Anywhere from 11-4 oclock, on bright sunny days, these areas produced a lot of the big fish caught during the week. Guys were throwing the largest size Rattletrap you could find, in a bright orange/red color. It was interesting to see them hang out in areas I did not expect. It might be a good way to turn your buddies on to musky too, I had guys with hardly any fishing experience catch them off the dock. Good Luck.