Canyon lake - Blyth's Canyon Lake Lodge

[mthunter]

A friend and I are going up to Canyon Lake in September to chase muskies at Blyths Canyon Lake lodge. Has anyone been to this Lake or resort and have any opinions or information they wouldn't mind sharing?

[MuskyBrian]

One of my favorite lakes ever...Expect lots of follows with fish all over the place. Clearer water...fish early fish the evening, but there can be an afternoon bite in the sand. Small bucktails, topwater, bulldawgs can be the ticket

[mrmanners]

I'm going up in two weeks and will let you know what we contact.

[mthunter]

Good to hear, nice to know we didn't just fall for a sales pitch.

Will be looking forward to your report mrmanners.

[mrmanners]

Little mouse told me that perch colored lures tolled around dawn and dusk over the bait fish were producing a few also. This was a report from someone who was up there last weekend. I'm going to McIntosh lodge but i would be interested to find out how Blyths is also. I stayed at North Country and I think owner ship was changing, around five years ago, lodging was nice and owners nice but the boats and equipment were way out of date. To small of boats and to small of equipment, so this time bringing a bigger boat bigger net and the right backup (fishing buddy). Also I have had three years of fishing on Ealge to get a little better. I will post when I come back on the 27th of August.

[MuskyBrian]

Boys...in the second LARGE bay down that extends to the north part of the lake ( not Outlet Bay where Blyths is), there are some Giants boulders that are well out of the water on a small point....We call this spot "Monsters Inc" for reasons I am sure you can imagine...Have fun

[mrmanners]

Fishing was tuff last week, 55+ hours of muskie fishing and only two fish boated. One 28" and a 36", we trolled rock piles, and casted rocks/weeds. Quite a few little ones were moving but the big girls were hiding and did not want to come out to play. We found that when the fish were on they would hit top waters and hair. We had about 8 more fish on all below 42" but they seamed to jump and roll etc. throwing the hooks (both new and sharpened). Outlet bay, canyon bay and the falls were the most active for fish but it sounds like they move up a lot shallower during sept. when you will be at blyths. Walleyes were consistant and on for the whole week, wind blowen points and the steep rock sides to the tracks along the narrow sections of the lake were all good areas. use the depth finder and look for clouds of bait fish (ciscos) then fish 28-32 feet around them.

[mthunter]

Thanks for report mr m, sorry to hear old esox wasn't in a more cooperative mood. What were the eyes biting on if you dont mind sharing? Also how long did it take to get up there?

[mrmanners]

with two stops of about 45 min it took just over 10 hours. The eyes were biting on crawlers, make sure to use a bottom bouncer to get the bait up a little, seams like rigs longer then 4 feet but shorter then 6 were the best route. The faster we moved the bigger the fish (as long as you could keep your bait down).

[mthunter]

Thanks for the info, will give a report when we get back.