Best splake lakes in Ontario
92 Ontario waters hold splake, 92 mapped with real state-agency depth surveys. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. Stocked brook × lake trout hybrid — the Shield-lake specialty that splits the difference: shallower than lakers, deeper than brookies, and a superb ice bite.
- Lake Manitou — 160 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
- Anstruther Lake — 128 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Yellow Perch
- Ramsey Lake — 76 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Crappie
- Round Lake — 121 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
- Otter Lake — 120 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Bluegill
- Madawaska Lake — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
- Hungry Lake — 106 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Lukinto Lake — 216 ft max · survey depth data · Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout
- Nelson Lake — 160 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
- Timber Lake — 90 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Lake Whitefish, Splake
- Indian Lake — 85 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Steenburg Lake — 65 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Splake
- Silver Lake — 72 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Farren Lake — 70 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Rainbow Trout
- Loon Call Lake — 50 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Splake
- Ella Lake — 80 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
- Upper Mace Lake — 40 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Splake
- Halfway Lake — 118 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch
- Stewart Lake — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Crappie
- Grindstone Lake — 66 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Whitefish
- Monck Lake — 30 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Splake, Pumpkinseed
- Smudge Lake — 72 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Splake
- Clear Lake — 85 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Burbot
- Oastler Lake — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Crappie
- Nepahwin Lake — 72 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch
…plus 67 more Ontario waters holding splake.
When to fish splake in Ontario
- Spring 5–25 ft — Ice-out through spring, splake patrol shoreline rock, points and inflows like oversized brookies.
- Summer 25–60 ft — Warm water pushes splake below the thermocline — deep breaks and humps, shallower than lakers in the same lake.
- Fall 10–35 ft — Mostly sterile but still hormone-driven — fall splake stage on rock shoals and points and eat aggressively.
- Winter 10–45 ft — Why they're stocked: an active, roaming winter predator — work basin edges and mid-depth humps, and hole-hop.
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