Cedar Lake, Ontario

Give the jumbo perch a try. I've heard the June action is fairly good. Fun to fish and are they ever good eating. Your resort should be able to tell you where and how to catch them.

Northern lights will take good care of you,fishing cedar in mid june will very productive,walleyes will still be fairly shallow and near weedbeds,smallmouths should be on fire depending on water temps,the larger pike on the other hand might be a little deeper this time of the as they like cooler water temps,the smaller,more aggresive pike should give more action in the weed beds,and might also run into a muskie ,should be a good trip

Hey all, Myself and my 2 boys, 18 and 11 are going to Cedar Lake (Northern Lights) on June 15-21 2013. We love fishing for Pike but any action will do just to keep the little guy interested. Any tips and pointers would be greatly appreciated. Love the board, I've read quite a bit of it before I signed up today and really like the help you guys show each other.Thanks

crawdaddy...thanks

Ranco...check your messages.

Our small (4) group is headed to Rainbow Point Lodge on July 7 for the week. It is our first time there after staying at a different camp in previous years. RPL seems like a really nice spot. We haven't fished these waters previously and were usually on Lac Seul where we have always done well. Any suggestions for fishing the Perrault Lake waters? We have had our success mostly with jigs, beetle spins, various swim baits etc. We have not used live bait.

We just came Saturday the 23rd as well. We had a group of 5 guys and stay in the Southwest corner at Northern Lights. Weather was not very kind all week and as a result we only made it as far as Time Sqaure one time. On the other hand the group agreed it was our most productive year of fishing in three attempts.

If we could find a weed edge, almost anywhere we tried; we could pull perch and walleys out of 6- 10 ft of water. My partner and I almost exclusively slip bobber and it just plain works for us. 90% of the fish we caught were on leeches. Smallies were on the feed and literally any rocky shore we tried with a slip bobber and a leach produced smallies. The more boulder-ish looking the better. Many 14"'s but lots of 16 to 18"s as well. If we fiished rocky points, reefs or humps, the hot bite was more in the 10 to 12 ft range. Walleyes and smallies together often. This is where the bigger smallies came. Again, mostly on leeches.

Walleyes ranging in size from 15 to 24" could be found in any of these spots and frequently swimming together.

Caught some nice pike in the 24" upto 35" inch size fishing 6 inch suckers in 8 to 10 feet of weeds; near the edge. the bigger perch came in these spots as well. Perch coming on small minnows.

Had musky follow walleyes to the boat numerous times. What a freakin' rush! No takers on the follows though. One 42 1/2 inch beautiful tiger caught on the 6" sucker. All follows and caught fish on rock humps fishing near the walleyes. These spot were very close to the 40 foot hole near the narrown leading down to the SW corner.

the mayflatch hatch seemed to be in full bloom but did not deter the fish at all. In fact; the bays where they were hatching were some of the more productive. Cedar is an awesome fishery and the more expirience we are getting; the more we are realizing that.

51 weeks cannot go by fast enough. Need to figure out a fall trip somehow!?!?!

Good luck to those of you headed up soon.

Terwalleye

we didn't use them at all. minnows worked pretty good at times.. shad raps caught the most fish I would say....it was a full blown hatch LOL...know the neighbors to us had good luck with crawlers...they were just spotty is all.....if ya hit em there were quite a few of them....then the search was on again.....but then, if it was easy, it wouldn't be fun.......

prop-buster, What was the mistake of not taking crawlers? Did you buy them there and they were too expensive or did you not use crawlers at all and if not, did you use minnows? I'm guessing the mayfly hatch may have impacted you not catching the fish you have in previous years. What is the water level compared to last year? Thanks, Steve

fishing (walleyes) was a bit slow for us this year, I mean comparatively to other years...didn't catch the perch like other years (we don't fish them, but usually would catch them by accident)....nice pike and smallies caught...but we did make a mistake....we usually take crawlers and didn't do it this year...

whoever said they were in cabin two, is the lucky cabin..LOL...nice gal caught a 31 inch walleye Friday...

told them about this site...hope they make it on to tell that story.....

was a full blown mayfly hatch....was worried about that this year...we did catch a lot of fish...just not a hundred a day......

good luck to those going up there......oh, we did SEE the sun Friday.....

Keystone does the same thing with gas if you bring your own boat. they give you 25 gallons a week. I bring my boat filled and usually the 25 extra is perfect for the week. 8 more days and i'm headin up! Cant wait!!!

But Gils, Glad to hear you are having a good week. Hope you find the smalls, there are some hogs in Cedar Lake. Any luck on crappie?

Bug Gills, How big are the perch that are hitting the shad raps and are they near weeds? Thanks for your response and continued success. Steve

That is one of the reasons we like to stay at Cedar Lake Camp. If you bring your own boat, they give you the first 25 gallons FREE. With a 29 gallon tank filled when we arrive, and their 25, we never had to buy any in the years we been coming here. In Cedar Lake Lodges defense, they have to have the gas hauled to the island. A big added expense.

We are at C L camp now. Walters are plentiful as usual, we have been getting more northerns than other years, and the ones under the slot are really fat this year. Caught 7 or 8 in the slot that we wish we could have kept. None over yet. Haven't tried for smallies. This year, for some reason, the perch are hitting shad raps, yes shad raps, and are not wormy as in years past.

Good Luck

Butch

Hope you have a nice trip. Late June should produce some nice smallmouth. I've found key to smallmouth on Cedar is shoreline with small rocks ( gravel to bowling ball size max ). This shoreline should be very close to deep water as well. Walleyes will be deeper in late June ( 18'near same structure as bass ). One item I would like to mention is about gas. If your using a camp boat you should not have a problem, however if you bring your own boat that may be a different story when it comes to purchasing gas. I went up for opening day and wondered why I saw so many gas tanks by the cabins. Well it had been 30 years since I had been to cedar. Originally went for 15 consecutive years a couple times a year starting in 1974 but the fishing had gotten progressively worse to the point we stopped going. Anyway to my point. Gas was 9.08 gal at resort. I have a 75 Yamaha tiller and went with a full tank and purchased 24 gal while there. Given the Canadian tax my gas bill was well over $200.00. I have since started purchasing some 5 gal tanks for my next trip.