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Location: WI | I will be heading up to fish Canyon Lake next week. I hear it is a very clear lake with lots of followers. Anyone have any tips for baits, colors, depths, and structures to fish? Any tips would be helpful. Thanks! | |
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| Canyon has been a great topwater lake late in the day and on into the night. Take some time to find good looking shallower structure during the day and pound it when prime time arrives. Hint... check out the shallow sand bar between the mainland and the easternmost of the group of three islands in the northeastern section of the lake (the basin near McIntosh). You can see it on Google Earth. BTW: Those islands are all worth investigating.
Haven't fished it much in the daylight! Have done well on Twin Teasertails and B.S. Willy creepers well into the fall. | |
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| Fish will probably be on the rocks and weeds when you get there. Use weagles in the weedy bays, we found we needed to basically force feed them last year when we were there, but they ate.
Had something like 6 or 7 strikes in 7 consecutive casts in some of the weedy bays. Caught some of the bigger fish on Tyrants by the tunnel under the train tracks. Worth investing some time there because of the flowing water at the opening where fish flow through constantly.
Suicks, Weagles, Double 10's should all catch you fish. I hear topraiders work well, though ive never worked them much there. Smaller bucktails always work, some weedy bays only hold small fish as you could sit in some of them all day and catch probably 20, 30 inch fish.. But if that's the case keep moving til you find some weedy bays where the bigger fish are. Don't stick to the edges of the weedy bays either, fish over top directly in the middle of it.
Typically see people fishing all around the edges in the shallows not catching anything, when we work dead center of the weedy bays that is always where the bigger fish are. Caught 16 last year with an average of 38''. Not bad for that lake.
Might want to try trolling too, we did have to work for our fish as we put in 12-16 hour days usually, but had a few 5 fish days.
here is an image of our map half way through the wk where we had caught/seen fish. The solid colored green bay is the weedy bay you want to be fishing the weeds in the middle of it.. and work it throughout before you leave it.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/35237_632445337...
Edited by swanezy 9/9/2011 11:24 AM
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Fishing Canyon Lake, Ontario Sept 10th-16th