Old Lake CottageSplake fishing near Kirkland Lake, ON
243 documented waters within 300 km, 185 of them with splake as the primary species.
Where they are biting today
- Centre Triple Lake (Iroquois Falls)75
- Smoke Lake (Algonquin Park)75
- Pascal Lake (lac Pascal)75
- Ryan Lake (Whitney)75
- Pleasant Lake (Espanola)75
- Spring Lake (Iroquois Falls)75
- Mellon Lake (Elliot Lake)75
- South Madawaska River74
- Streich Lake (Espanola)74
- Billy Lake (Whitney)74
Fishing splake around Kirkland Lake
The waters around Kirkland Lake give splake anglers real options: 243 documented waters in range are on record for splake in our Ontario catalogue, and their daily scores - built from weather, water temperature at depth and species-fit modelling - decide the order shown above rather than reputation or hearsay.
There is a spread worth reading in today's leaders. Centre Triple Lake (Iroquois Falls) sets the pace at 75 (about 66 km from Kirkland Lake, roughly 12 m of water at its deepest), while Smoke Lake (Algonquin Park) sits at 75 (about 310 km from Kirkland Lake, roughly 12 m of water at its deepest). Pascal Lake (lac Pascal) holds third at 75. Those gaps are real information: the same splake conditions rarely land evenly across different depths, sizes and shorelines.
Splake are a hatchery cross between brook trout and lake trout, stocked widely because they grow faster than brook trout while staying more catchable in accessible depths than lake trout - a genuinely practical middle ground for a coldwater fishery. Splake swim in smaller lakes stocked by the Ontario MNRF, using both parent habitats: shallow fertile flats with weeds and downed trees plus nearby hard rock breaklines and boulder ledges dropping toward 25 to 30 feet. Cover water and adjust often: through the ice, jig a Williams spoon or tube while a minnow soaks on a second line; in open water, cast small in-line spinners, spoons or drift a minnow under a slip bobber.
Treat this page as a living shortlist: the ranking refreshes daily (currently showing September 14, 2026), and a shift in wind, cloud cover or water temperature is often enough to reorder it.