French River / Nip area

One of the guys from work is planning on taking his dad up to the French River area on a fishing trip for his retirement present.

Can anyone give me any info on good areas, good places to stay for fishing the French, such as fishing resorts, etc?? Good / bad and so on.......

They are thinking of going in September, and plan to fish for walleye and pike.

Any help that I can pass on would be great!!


Thanks

sparky

I fished on the French River. We used to do good on walleye at dusk but haven't been back in years. I have heard rumors recently the walleye fishing isn't as good as it used to be. Hopefully someone who has been there recently can offer some better tips or feedback.

I recently went to a beautiful fishing lodge called Chaudiere lodge. During our two night stay we hooked into lots of small walleye during the day and monster walleye at night. largest caught on the weekend was 9.7lb and only 29" long so it was a plumper. The walleye fishing is great if you can find the bait fish and stay with them. We were bottom bouncing late afternoon and hooked a 52" musky. Great fishing on the upper french, we had an action packed weekend.

chaudiere lodge is beautiful, so is riverview lodge... I've been out just about every weekend (I live in sturgeon and fish nipissing all the time) they are in about 15 - 25 feet of water, biting on worms, gota hit some "reefs" I won't give out my personal "fishing hole's" but the marker in front of the former keystone lodge on the east side,, in front of browns island, if you got a GPS with navionics or lakemaster maps, just look for the "bumps" and ledges, if you don't have a GPS, and do have a iPhone, download Navioncs for a cheap price of 15 bucks,,,, best money you'll ever spend!!!

one of my favorites.... http://www.sandbeachlodge.com/about.html built by edward seagram back in 1920... he brought men from his distillery to build it!!
http://www.wolseleylodge.com/ is also nice,,, there is also www.memquisitlodge.net/ in the west arm,,, very beautifull area also, and they have a very nice pontoon ride with a history lesson.

crap man there are many many lodges!! both the west arm and french river are beautiful, the fish are biting, just ask the lodge owners on where to go, they will be very helpfull