Northern Pike:
Mattagami Lake is a large Canadian Shield lake with 170 miles of shoreline. The high population of feeder fish produces great numbers of good size Northern Pike.
Northern Pike in our lake are found just about everywhere and are easy to catch. In the spring, many of the larger Trophy Northern Pike are caught as they are in shallow water feeding on spawning Walleyes. Our guests have caught Northern Pike up to 37-pounds.
Walleye :
Mattagami Lake and the Minisinakwa River are well known for having great Walleye fishing. There are many shoals, sandbars, weed-beds and other great structures, which are perfect habitat for large numbers of tasty Walleyes.
There are rivers running in-and-out of the lake with current running into deep holes and several waterfalls that can be boated to, which are also great areas to hold large populations of Walleyes, especially in the spring.
Smallmouth Bass:
TwinJ Hide-A-Way is lucky to be located in an area of Mattagami Lake, which has the best Smallmouth Bass fishing. No other part of the lake has a population density of Smallmouth Bass like our secluded corner of the lake.
Our guests enjoy easy access to really exciting Smallmouth action. Not only do we have great numbers of bass; we have trophy Smallmouth reaching 6-pounds with a few a little bigger. Our Smallmouth Bass also fight harder and jump higher then bass we have seen in other lakes. Last year's biggest Smallmouth Bass that we know of was 6.25 pounds. Since many of our bass fishing guests promote catch-&-release, there may have been bigger fish caught.