Hi. Also got back this past Sunday after 4 days at Sunset Lodge/Oak Island.

Fished Canada for the most part.

We mainly used jigs. For us 28-30 foot of water off most structure we stopped at was good. I had a lot of luck with Chartreuse. Pink and gold typically very good.

The smallmouth fishing was great as well for us. Caught an occasional walleye as well casting the shores.

Buddy got a nice 40″ pike jigging. 26″ walleye was our biggest. Lots of nice eater size.

Have fun and good luck.

We were up at Sunset Lodge this past weekend (June 26-30) for 4 nights. We fished Canada for the most part as the reefs in the US were not holding walleyes – at least for us. In general we caught a large number of walleyes on the Canada reefs as well as success throwing raps for small mouth. We had great small mouth fishing and caught quite a few eyes throwing against the rocks.

Also caught a 38″ musky on a walleye jig – was pretty fun.

We caught eyes everywhere from 5 feet to 25 feet. 18-22 was best. The size was not a large as we have seen in the past couple years on the US side but got a 24″, couple 23’s, etc.

We had gone up in mid-July in the past and fished the US for the most part. So this was fun to fish more Canada and do more searching for the fish.

Good luck!

We did not get a RABC.

We purchased an Outdoor Card and Fishing license prior to our trip up. Need to have both. I know that Sunset Lodge provides access to get these when at the Angle. Guessing others do as well.

We called CAN every morning that we were planning on heading up there. They asked for boat registration and boaters.

Hi Chris,
I’ve been fortunate to visit Oak Island for the past two summers as well as last year ice fishing. We stayed at Sunset Lodge Resort.

I assume you will be heading up to Young’s Bay and put your boat in there. They have a large parking lot for your truck and trailer. I can’t remember exactly but it may be $5 a day for parking. Not sure.

The trip from Baudette to Young’s Bay should be 2.5-3 hours. You will go through CAN customs and will call the USA customs when coming back into the US at the Angle. On the way home, you will call CAN when you get back into Canada. Again, Google Maps etc. will get you there. I believe there is one main way to get there.

One tip: Right down everyone’s name, data of birth, address and passport number on a sheet of paper. When you call, just one of you will need to talk but you will need name, DOB, etc. of everyone in your car.

Regarding passports for the kids, I would do some Google research and find out.

It’s pretty straight forward to get to Oak Island but a GPS is pretty much a must to watch for shallow water etc. Also if you fish CAN. Lot’s of islands.

Regarding a CAN license. That’s totally your call. We purchased CAN licenses on the internet – pretty straight forward. Just Google it. We had our best fishing in the US during the July time frame. We did go up to CAN a couple times and caught fish as well. Got a nice 43-inch musky on 8# test. It’s nice to have a CAN license if the wind is really blowing. A couple days the waves were rocking pretty good so we fished up in CAN with some protection from the islands. We got the conservation licenses – 7 day I think.

Things to bring – standard stuff. Weather gear, dry bags. Passports. If you do fish in CAN you can’t bring any bait in water. Meaning no live leeches or minnows. You can bring crawlers in paper for example. You will need to call into CAN each day you fish there. The resort should be able to help out on that. Pretty straight forward.

I’m pretty sure you will have a great time and catch a lot of fish. We had 4 in our boat and had a couple quads on at the same time. Lots of doubles etc.

Good luck and have fun!

I certainly believe that calling up and getting a ice report is the way to go. Adriens. Wig Wam. etc.

The ice was 15 inches or so on the lake and closed to full size trucks. We were shuttled out using small 4×4 truck. Others using 4x4s and snowmobiles.

The ice on the river was around 10 inches. I was a bit nervous when the small 4×4 came out to pick us up with all the cracking and creaking.