Munroe Lake Lodge
Manitoba, Canada

Without a doubt, Munroe Lake offers some of Canada's best trophy pike fishing - not just early in the season, but all summer long. Big northerns qualifying as Manitoba Master Angler fish (i.e. 41" + longer) abound, and fish in the 50-inch range are not unusual. Stout tackle is highly recommended. Additionally, there are countless other big gators - pike between 36 - 40" - in the swim, as well as innumerable lesser pike which provide non-stop action and the basic ingredient for a delicious, guide-prepared shore lunch.

Although Munroe Lake pike can and are caught almost everywhere around the lake - shallow, deep, off points, in back bays, in the river / creek mouths - the very best summer trophy pike action consistently comes from the many "cabbage" weedbeds scattered throughout the lake. One small weedbed, located just a minute from the lodge, produced more than 60 pike in 1 hour for a group of 7 anglers. Another extensive mid-lake weedbed produced more than 100 trophy pike for the same group over the course of a week's stay.

While almost everything (including door hinges and a plastic super-hero action figure !) caught pike, casting spoons (Eppinger Dardevles, Len Thompsons), heavy-duty musky spinnerbaits, and large in-line spinners & bucktails (Mepps Aglia Long # 5, Musky Killers) produced the biggest fish.

There's nothing quite like a trophy pike blowing up on a topwater presentation, and Munroe Lake's shallow water pike fishing provides exceptional opportunites for buzzin', twitchin' and flycasting action.

• Catch & release only
  (except fish for shore lunch)
• Barbless hooks mandatory.
• Single hooks encouraged.
• Recommended tackle
  • medium to heavy-action rods
  • 6 - 9" 30# leaders
  • 14 - 20 lb-test line
  • fish glove, gag, hookouts
  • spoons, spinners, spinnerbaits