Red Lake
Located in Red Lake, Ontario, Red Lake is an outstanding drive-to fishing lake that has several fishing resorts available to accommodate you on your fishing trip. Red Lake is a huge lake with so much fishing potential. It’s a numbers lake and trophy fish are very common too.
The primary species of fish in Red Lake are northern pike and walleye. Anglers do very well for numbers of walleye and pike as well as trophy-sized fish. It’s a very good lake for both species of fish. Perch and whitefish are available, but walleye and pike are what people come to Red Lake for. Anglers do report an occasional smallmouth bass as well. Other lakes that you can fish that are connected to Red Lake are Keg Lake, Gullrock Lake, Ranger Lake and Two Island Lake.
Keg Lake
Keg Lake is a much smaller lake on the Gullrock Chain, but the fishing can be very good here, especially early and late in the year. The shallower waters have a lot more rock hazards than in Gullrock Lake, but for the anglers that spend their time to learn this lake, they get rewarded big time. Early in the year, it’s one of the better areas to fish on the Gullrock Chain of Lakes.
Gullrock Lake
Gullrock Lake is a very popular drive-to fishing lake in Ontario. It is part of the Gullrock Chain of Lakes. Red Lake is the headwaters of this system. Water flows into Keg Lake, then Gullrock Lake. Ranger Lake & Gullrock Lake flow into Two Island Lake. Gullrock Lake is known as one of best drive to lakes for catching ridiculous amounts of walleye day in and day out all season long. The pike fishing is pretty great here too.
Not only is the fishing outstanding, it is a very easy lake to navigate with few hazards that boaters have to worry about. You still need to be careful, but compared to some of the other popular drive walleye lakes in Ontario, this one definitely ranks up there as far as the easiest to navigate.
Two Island Lake
Two Island Lake is a decent-sized lake, but much smaller than Gullrock and Red Lake. It does have water running in and out of it plus plenty of depth, some offshore structure to go along with lots of rock and some vegetation in the bays. Anglers report good catches of walleye and northern pike here with trophy fish too.
Ranger Lake
Ranger Lake is a smaller lake on the Gullrock Chain of Lakes. It is a fish sanctuary, which means it is protected from fishing early in the year to protect the spawn. When it opens up in mid-June, the fishing can be very good in there for walleye and pike. It is a lot smaller than Gullrock Lake and Red Lake, but at times, it can put out some big numbers of fish with big fish too.
Nungesser Lake
Nungesser Lake is a drive to lake about 30 miles farther north from Red Lake, Ontario. It’s a tough lake to get onto so just because you can drive to it doesn’t mean that you can drive your boat there and launch your boat. You will need to stay with a camp on this lake and you will be using their boats. It’s an awesome lake with some unbelievable fishing for walleye and northern pike. You can catch huge numbers of both species of fish and trophy fish are here too.
