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Walleye Fishing

Lake Wabatongushi Ontario Canada has incredible fish habitat that supports prolific fishing for aggressive Walleye all season, spring, summer and fall. Strong, Aggressive Walleye. And our walleye habitat is different, with easy to catch shallow populations during the height of summer in and around substantial deep weed beds.

Walleye Fishing Ontario Canada

Our Canadian Walleye are numerous and easy to catch all season long, with shallow and surface lures, traditional jigs, jerk baits, as well as exciting Fly-Fishing for Walleye using shallow streamers.

Walleye Fly-Fishing Ontario Canada

Catch & Release. We encourage our guests to release all larger, spawning size fish: walleye over 20 inches, northern pike over 30 inches and perch over 12 inches. These fish are generally all females, prime spawners, and at least 10 years old, while really large fish can be 30 years old or more.

Shore Lunch Fish Fry. The best eating size fish: walleye 15 – 18 inches, perch 9 – 12 inches and northern pike 22 – 28 inches. We encourage our guests to enjoy eating while they are here when the fish are at their very best freshness and taste. Shore lunches where fish and food are cooked over an open fire are especially delicious.

Bringing Fish Home. As for bringing fish home, we think it’s a good idea if our guests are planning to eat the fish within 2 – 4 weeks after their vacation here, while the fish taste and quality is still very good (although not as good as fresh caught fish). If our guests do not plan to eat the fish fairly soon after their vacation, we think it is a better idea to release the fish back into the lake for their next vacation.

We are in located in Ontario Fishing Zone 7.


Walleye Growth Chart

This chart shows typical walleye sizes for different ages as well as male/female ratios for Wabatongushi Lake and our region of Northern Ontario, Canada.We are in the mid-boreal forests of Northern Ontario so walleye in southern regions will grow much faster, possibly twice as fast, as our region. However, our walleye tend to live much longer, perhaps twice the age or more.

Fish Age Length Weight Male/Female
1 5" - 41cm 0.2 lb 50/50
2 8”-20 cm 0.4 lb 55/45
3 10”-26cm 0.6 lb 60/40
4 12.3”-31cm 0.9 lb 65/35
5 14.2”-36cm 1.0 lb 70/30
6 15.5”-39cm 1.3 lb 65/35
7 16.3”-41cm 1.6 lb 60/40
8 17”-43cm 1.8 lb 55/45
9 18.7”-47cm 2.3 lb 50/50
10 19.1”-49cm 2.6 lb 45/55
11 19.8”-50cm 2.9 lb 40/60
12 20.4”-53cm 3.1lb 35/65
13 21”-54cm 3.4 lb 30/70
14 21.5”-55cm 3.7lb 25/75
15 23"-58cm 4.5lb 20/80
16 24.2"-62cm 5.2lb 15/85
17 25"-64cm 5.7lb 10/90
18 25.6"-65cm 6.2lb 5/95
19 26"-66cm 6.5lb 3/97
Over 20 years Over 26.2"-66cm Over 6.7lb 1/99

Ontario Fishing Licence

Ontario, Canada has a range of Fishing Licences ranging from 1 day to 8 day to 1 year to 3 years for Conservation or Sport Fishing for Ontario residents, Canadian residents and non-residents of Canada.

Guests of our lodge can buy their Fishing Licences and Outdoors Cards here at our lodge and anyone can buy Ontario Fishing Licences and Outdoors Cards online using this link.

Walleye Fishing Photos

Our guests with some of their big walleye catches.

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