Fishing - Killarney Provincial Park - La Cloche Silhouette Trail

[ik0n]

Hey all,

I've done a bunch of googling on the fishing in the park which doesn't seem to be the greatest due to dead lakes (acid rain).

Me and two buddies will be back this summer to do the loop in 4 days.
We will be staying at Boundary Lake on night 1. Lake of Three Narrows on night 2 and Cave lake on night 3.

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience fishing these lakes.
We'll be hiking and therefore all fishing will be done from shore.
If anyone has anything to share about fish in these lakes or tips, lures etc... I am all ears.

So far it seems like Three Narrows would be my best bet to catch something.
I also found a page that said Cave lake would be good too but it's relatively small and the site gave no indication as to what fish to expect, I do remember some small blue gill or pumpkin seed swimming around my pump when we filled with water here last year.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Brett

[DanO]

You're right most of the lakes in the Park suffered acidification back in the 70's. Three Narrows has smallmouth bass and pike I believe. Not sure about the other two lakes. Try the MNR site "fish on-line" for Ontario. It might offer more info.
http://www.web2.mnr.gov.on.ca/fish_o...plorer_en.html

[Badbuzz]

From what I understand, most of the lakes are fish sanctuaries up there. They are recovering from the acid rain. The MNR reintroduced lake trout in a few lakes, as they can tolerate higher PH levels. Check the regs, as quite a few lakes are catch and release, barbless if you are fishing. There are quite a few lakes listed under the exceptions for regs.

W.

[ik0n]

Ya was looking at that. Fortunately two of the lakes I'm staying on (three narrows and cave) aren't very restrictive. Boundary I can't find any info on... due to the time we have to complete the loop I won't have many opportunities to make casts on some of the other lakes we'll be travelling by.
All fishing on this trip will be C&R anyways.
Cheers.

[stewart16]

Ive had luck fishing in Three Narrows in the heat of July on a canoe trip, had some bass action right at the launch after climbing up the pig and then had 5 or 6 pike while dragging Rapalas behind the canoe along shorelines.

[dabam]

If you're planning on completing the full trail in 4 days you likely won't have too much time to fish! Regardless I would recommend starting with Jeff's Maps (www.jeffsmaps.com). He lists fish species there and its accurate.

D

[Lurker]

ik0n,

Just wondering if you made it Cave Lk yet, and if so, what if anything did you catch?

I'll be up there fishing this week on the evenings of the 22nd, 23rd (camping in H5) and maybe the 24th (H6).

TiA

The Lurker

[ik0n]

Hey lurker not yet. Going 29th to 1st our night on cave lake will be the 31st also on H6... I've also decided not to take the fishing equipment with me this time because we are doing an accelerated time frame (going counter clockwise h35 night one. H21 night two and h6 night three.).

[Lurker]

That's going to be an challenging trek, hope you enjoy. I'll post any pics or details of anything I catch. For bait, I'll be using little spoons, spinners and rubber worms.

[ik0n]

Dependant on your success I may end up taking some equipment.
I know when I was there on cave lake last year there were lots of blue gill that were very inquisitive about my water filter line in the water...
Keep me posted.

Cheers.