Hey everyone, I have a trip planned to Fraser/Thomas in the last week of June. We are looking for lakers and walleyes. Does anyone have some experience fishing these lakes? Some info to get me started in the right direction would be awesome! Thanks.

Welcome to the board eighteenmile. Did T/F a couple years ago and liked the area. Expect company. Did not do well on walleys on freaser but we landed in the middle of a mayfly hatch. We camped on north Fraser and did find some lakers in the hole just south of the campsie on the north shore of Fraser. I thought the campsites on Thomas were nicer in general but both are very big lakes. If I go again I will camp on Thomas and make Fraser/Sagus a day trip by dragging a trout lure through Fraser and then hitting Sagus for eyes.

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We base camped in Thomas the last week of June this past summer. Fishing was pretty slow for us on Thomas. We caught a few nice walleye, but no significant numbers. I trolled and jigged for Lake Trout for four hours or so over the course of the week with no luck, but I'm from Texas so I could have been doing something wrong. For the record, I tried a deep Taildancer in Purpledescent and a three way rig with a blue and silver spoon, as well as just vertical jigging a heavy spoon over 80 feet of water. I caught a few averaged sized pike as well, but no smallmouth, even though I tried targeting them one evening with topwater lures. Even though the fishing was slow, it was still a very pleasant lake to be on with numerous good campsites.

I would recommend heading up to Shepo and Sagus to try your luck with walleye. I consistently hear that Thomas is better for Lakers and Fraser is better for walleye, so keep that in mind as well. All three island campsites on Thomas are nice to very nice, with the southeastern one being the nicest, followed by the westernmost and middle ones, respectively.

Two years ago I was on Thomas the last week of June. It is a clear water lake and the walleye fishing was very spotty. I came up from Insula, a stained water lake, with very good walleye fishing. I fished half a day for trout on Thomas without any results. Thomas is beautiful lake and was well worth my visit.

Thanks for responding so quickly, that's kinda disappointing to hear about the fishing but ill see what I can do. I'm going to try to get the campsite next to the sagus portage on fraser so I will have easy access to walleye and lake trout.

I have been to fraser the last 2 years. It is an outstanding walleye lake for both numbers and size, also ok for lakers but you will have to troll for them, Sagus is also an outstanding walleye lake. If you want lakers I'd make a day trip to Raven, they aren't huge but good number of 18 to 22 inch fish. shoot me an e-mail

Raven is a good lake, but small. It cannot tolerate much of a harvest. Please practice catch and release.

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Good walleye fishing on Fraser. Points a structure, reefs produced well for me in early July about 15 feet deep. Lakers trolling deep holes west of the mid lake islands. Check out the old homestead on one of the mid lake islands.

Fireplace was poured on D-Day.

T

quote timatkn: "Raven is a good lake, but small. It cannot tolerate much of a harvest. Please practice catch and release.


T"

O.K. gotcha, I like walleyes anyway.:) what did you guys catch them on, walleyes and trout when you were in fraser?

We have never kept any lakers in raven all caught and released. the walleyes hit really really well on a floating jighead with a leech and a walker sinker about 2 1/2 feet above the jig. good all day long but even better in the evening.

I did well on Fraser with a #9 or 11 Rapapla Minnow Rap in perch. Every hump/point at 15-20 feet produced it was liek magic---not saying you will have the same pattern but that is what worked for us. I think I could of doen better wiht McSweens tactics but we caught plenty just casually trolling so didn't try any other method.

Fraser trout on a Rapala #9 perch taildancer.

T