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Best splake lakes in Ontario

283 Ontario waters list splake (official records or labelled estimates), 152 mapped with survey or official-chart depth data. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality, leading with the waters in our reviewed search catalog — 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.

1. Georgian Bay — Bruce Peninsula & Tobermory — 567 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout, Yellow PerchWhy #1: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 3 public access sites
2. Georgian Bay — Owen Sound & Colpoys Bay — 405 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout, Yellow PerchWhy #2: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 4 public access sites
3. Lake Manitou — 160 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Yellow Perch, Lake TroutWhy #3: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
4. Kennebec Lake — 100 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, BluegillWhy #4: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
5. Dog Lake — 180 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, CrappieWhy #5: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
6. Anstruther Lake — 128 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Yellow PerchWhy #6: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
7. Ramsey Lake — 76 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, CrappieWhy #7: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
8. Madawaska Lake — 60 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook TroutWhy #8: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
9. Round Lake — 121 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Yellow PerchWhy #9: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
10. Lukinto Lake — 216 ft max · real survey depth contours · Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brook TroutWhy #10: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
11. Timber Lake — 90 ft max · real survey depth contours · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Lake Whitefish, SplakeWhy #11: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
12. Rock Lake — 100 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Lake WhitefishWhy #12: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
13. Loon Call Lake — 50 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, SplakeWhy #13: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
14. Lower Beverley Lake — 76 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, CrappieWhy #14: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · 3 public access sites
15. Ella Lake — 80 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Yellow Perch, Lake TroutWhy #15: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
16. Halfway Lake — 118 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Yellow PerchWhy #16: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
17. Stewart Lake — 60 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, CrappieWhy #17: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
18. Little Serpent Lake — 50 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Yellow Perch, Lake TroutWhy #18: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
19. Teasdale Lake — 170 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Lake Trout, Lake WhitefishWhy #19: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
20. Grindstone Lake — 66 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake WhitefishWhy #20: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 2 public access sites
21. Otter Lake — 120 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, BluegillWhy #21: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
22. Smudge Lake — 72 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, SplakeWhy #22: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
23. Gervais L. 78 — 60 ft max · real survey depth contours · Brook Trout, SplakeWhy #23: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
24. Elkhorn L. — 70 ft max · real survey depth contours · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Yellow Perch, Cisco (Lake Herring)Why #24: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
25. Oastler Lake — 60 ft max · real survey depth contours · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, CrappieWhy #25: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 2 public access sites

…plus 258 more Ontario waters holding splake.

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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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