Lake St. Joseph Fishing Reports (St Joes)

[elkhuntingfan]

I'm thinking of booking a trip to Lake St. Joseph in mid July. Has anyone fished there in July. If so, how was the fishing?

[LMFlyin]

Ive never fished it personally. Heard alot about the lake. I do fly over the west end (Root Bay Area) lots during the summer heading to our fly ins north of it. From what I have heard its a fine lake. I would not worry about the fishing. Where are you thinking about going? Driving up to fish the east end places or thinking about fishing the west end fly in area?

[elkhuntingfan]

We're looking at the east end at Camp Lake St. Joseph. I know some guys that have had great luck very early in the season. We can't go then because my son will miss too much school. Not much else is available until mid July.

[grousehunter]

fished there late june/early July and fishing was good. There is a very productive reef close to camp and the other nice thing is you can catch a lot of walleyes right off the dock at camp st. joespeh. I still like lac suel more, but it is definately a great lake.

[superbee]

It is an excellent fishery and you won't have any problem catching eyes in July. It is a special lake and has a tag system that ensures the fishing stays top notch. It is more of a true Canadian experience in my opinion, you don't have to look at houseboats all over the lake like Lac Seul. St Joe has alot more remote setting and is phenomenal fishery.

[Hillbiehle]

This is my try at posting this. I'm unsure what happened...anyhow, I am in the process of selecting an outpost for our family's fishing trip and considering Lake St. Joe and the outpost offered by Winonga Lodge. Please let me know if you have been there or to Lake St. Joe and advice that you can have regarding this location. Thanks in advance.

[Outfitter17]

It's a great walleye lake, but it's also very big. If you are boating in with your own boats 17'+ then you should be fine, if you are using 14' camp boats with 6hp, then I would look at another option.

[GRH]

We've gone to Winoga's main camp for 16 years, I've also being to his other fly in camps in the winter ice fishing. They do a great job, and are great people. I've talked to groups of guys that have being to St. Joe and they've all said it was great. You can fly in, boat in, or D ick will bring you in on his big barge. Any other questions let me know I'll try to help.

[elkhuntingfan]

I've been to Lake St. Joe the last two years. We stayed at Camp Lake St. Joe. The rates were very reasonable, and we had a great time. When we were there last time, the water was way down. The resort is good about letting you know where to travel when heading down the lake. We caught a lot of fish both years. The first year we went early and caught 150 northerns 30" and over. There were 8 of us. We caught quite a few over 40. Last summer, we went in June. We didn't get as many big northerns but we caught a lot of walleyes.

You can pretty much catch walleyes all day long. We're heading up in June again.

[Hillbiehle]

We ended up booking for the first week in July. I'm looking forward to this, however I must admit to being a bit overwhelmed with the massive water. I have never fished Las Seul, Eagle, LOW, etc...as I'm used to doing fly-ins on smaller canadian lakes.

Thanks for the insight.

[hardcorefishing]

I spent years guiding on Lake St.Joseph and it has some of the best Walleye fishing that you will find anywhere. The Pike fishing is awsome as well. The only thing about the fishing there is there are no monsters as a 30inch Walleye is rare and a Pike over 45inches is also rare. But as for numbers we once put 850 Walleye's in the boat in a single day!!!!!!! Also the Lake is very dangerous with rocks and shoals everywhere so be carefull.

[Hillbiehle]

Any recent reports on Lake St. Joe? Heading up there this Friday

[kkahmann]

You will be glad to know they got a ton of rain there the last 2 days. 35,000 hectors is a big, big fire. You should catch a ton of walleyes if they can get a handle on that fire. There was a resort up there on evacuation notice but I think the danger has passed--you might still have to deal with some smoke.