Deep, clear fly-in lake with walleye, pike and lake trout.
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Where: Northwestern Ontario · north-east of Red Lake
Size: about 86,000 acres
Access: Fly-in from Red Lake by float plane.
Deepest: 155 ft
Average depth: about 46 ft
Species to target: Walleye, northern pike, lake trout
Walleye limit (US angler): ?
Typical ice-out: ?
Who else is on the water: fly-in camps
Size (acres)
Sydney & Kilburn: about 17,570 (Sydney 14,240 with the Sturgeon River + Kilburn 3,330)
Trout Lake: about 86,000
Boats on an average summer day
Sydney & Kilburn: 10
Trout Lake: ?
Acres per boat
Sydney & Kilburn: 1,760
Trout Lake: ?
Rough-water days a season
Sydney & Kilburn: 1.7 (Kilburn 0) ✓
Trout Lake: 19.5
Sheltered water
Sydney & Kilburn: 75% ✓
Trout Lake: 65%
Walleye a US angler may keep each day
Sydney & Kilburn: 2, both 18 in or under
Trout Lake: ?
Clearest summer water
Sydney & Kilburn: 26 ft ✓
Trout Lake: 19 ft
Deepest spot
Sydney & Kilburn: 240 ft (Kilburn 213 ft) ✓
Trout Lake: 155 ft
Cisco (tullibee)
Sydney & Kilburn: ●
Trout Lake: ●
Whitefish
Sydney & Kilburn: ●
Trout Lake: ●
Free of invasive smelt
Sydney & Kilburn: ●
Trout Lake: ●
Mayfly mud flats
Sydney & Kilburn: ●
Trout Lake: ?
Disturbances on or upstream (of 6)
Sydney & Kilburn: 0
Trout Lake: 0
Typical ice-out
Sydney & Kilburn: about May 5
Trout Lake: ?
Hours from Minneapolis
Sydney & Kilburn: 7 h drive + 0.5 h flight ✓
Trout Lake: 9 h drive + 0.3 h flight
Who else is on the water
Sydney & Kilburn: 1 lodge, 0 cottages
Trout Lake: fly-in camps
✓ marks the better value. ? means we couldn’t find accurate data or a close estimate. We’ve made every effort to be accurate, but some figures are estimates and there may be errors or gaps. How we measured
