Last year, we went to Slim Lake and camped on all of the lakes in that entry point. It was great, except for the rainy weather and fire ban, but the fishing was not the greatest. Just wondering if anyone else has ever fished that lake or outlying lakes and had any luck. The only day we had any luck was when the front moved over and the sun came out the day before we had to leave. Even then, it wasn't the greatest, but we got quite a few northerns. Looking to find the walleyes.

If anyone has fished this lake and had luck, please let me know. Even if there are any hotspots, I have a lake map. Let me know.

I had asked previously about the same lake chain. This was the best response that was offered. Good luck, and let me know if you find anything.

Slim was a tough lake to fish... it's very deep (~70 feet in some places) for only being at times 50 feet wide. the drop offs from shore are immediate and steep. theres a couple of shallower parts that we caught some smallies in, but never got a walleye even though some 300,000 fry were dumped in 2004. They're probably in there though. We camped at the northern-most site, and it was a good site with room for 3 tents. Great views of up and down (north-south) the lake.

Rice lake is not a good fishing lake - only 5 feet deep all the way across.

Hook and Keneu are good for notherns, but we didnt get much else out of them. The campsite on Keneu is really awesome, very open with good pine trees providing canopy cover, but it's very difficult to get to. We bushwacked through ~200 yards of beaver dam to get there, but since you're going in January that shouldnt be a problem. In fact, it might be easy to get to Keneu straight from Slim via the southern portage. I wish we would have stayed at that site for more than a shore lunch. There was also good fishing right off the site, which is on a point. There are submerged rocks roughly 3 feet below the water level about 15 feet straight off the point in about 10 feet of water

Slim Creek is one of the major smelt runs on Burntside, and I'm sure that some of them have filtered into Slim Lake.

If the DNR put fry instead of fingerlings into the lake, the smelt could very well have eaten them all.

The smelt is a vicious predator.