Rainy in june

We are headed to Rainy Lake Lost Bay campsite for 4 nights in June. We’ve been going there for 5-6 years. We’ve had some decent fishing on the MN side. We are thinking about getting Canadian licenses this year to do some more exploring. Question is, is it worth it? Is the fishing really that much better? And what areas on the Canadian side are good areas within driving distance from lost bay for the day? Fishing mostly walleyes maybe some pike and small mouth.
Thanks.

It’s 100% worth it. Fish the Canadian side all day for size and numbers and then stop on the way back to camp to get some dinner on the Minnesota side. Just make sure you know all the rules.

fins wrote:

It’s 100% worth it. Fish the Canadian side all day for size and numbers and then stop on the way back to camp to get some dinner on the Minnesota side. Just make sure you know all the rules.

Can’t keep fish in canada?

1 fish for non residents.

fins wrote:

1 fish for non residents.

Just make sure the 1 you keep is under 18″ if you’re gonna stop and fish the US side on the way back.
I’ve fished Swell Bay (and Redgut also) in the past with good luck around the second week of July, but that is a bit of a run from Lost Bay. Looks like about 6 miles just to get to Swell bay from the campsite, over 11 to Redgut.

If you scroll back a little ways there was some really good discussion about Rainy.

Swell bay is some the area was looking at on the map.

We fished the East of Brule narrows on the Canadian side almost exclusively last year. The bass fishing is soooo much better, non stop action all day. Pike fishing we caught a lot bigger fish. Walleye was about the same but we used plastics instead of live bait. The conservation license is like $30 plus the outdoors card, if that needs to be renewed. We will definitely plan on spending a considerable amount of time on that side of the lake this June as well. We want to get into Hale Bay on the extreme East end of the lake. I do miss enjoying a beer while fishing on that side but we usually make up for that fishing walleyes on humps with slip bobbers in the evenings on the US side.