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Originally Posted by cube
Look up a couple of vids. One with Mercer and 1 with fishing Canada. They are both latter in the season and they tell you where and how to fish. They were using bobbers and quick strike rigs at that time of the year catching Large pike feeding on ciscos by Wallis Flats. There is a road to the end of the flats and you will not have a problem putting you kayak in there.
The other location I would put in is at the far North West end by the EB Campbell dam. There is boat launch there so again no problem putting in.
Two words of warning though. First it is often windy and the waves can be very big on the lake part of Tobin. At that time of the year the pike are in the lake portion of the system. Second you have to be flexible in your thinking and presentations on Tobin. They did not log out the trees before they flooded the lake hence there are MANY snags so I know I had to adjust the way I normally fish after I got there.
If your going for Walleye the river portion to Tobin Lake resort point is still best at that time of the year. You can find a good place to put in at the Nipawin regional park by the upstream dam. If you have two vehicles then I would just drift down stream from there until Tobin Lake resort point. Again very Many snags and you will lose lots of hooks so most just use lindy rigs etc here as they are cheap and work about as good as anything.
https://www.rustyhooktobin.com/image...n_Lake_Map.pdf
Best accommodation in the area I found was the Northern Greens Resort and Conference Centre
Good Luck to You
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Careful with some of this advice. Im sure CUBE is only trying to be helpful and he is not wrong at all about the wind, waves and snags - kayaking may be a battle.
Drifting down the river to the resort is not an option as the current only really continues until you are out the mouth of the river. At that point she's a long paddle ride to the resort...Perhaps an impossible one if its windy and you wont be able to paddle back upstream either...So you'd be F@cked.
Drifting down river in a kayak will also have you clipping at about mach 2 and you wont be able to fish that way worth a dam (pun intended). The undercurrent that rides though the lake from dam to dam even when the dams are open wont be enough to positively affect your drift under any wind.
Good places to stay on the resort side are obviously the Tobin lake Resort itself, Reel em in cabins is by the launch at Nipawin, Serenity Bay if you're pulling a trailer, Carol's cove on the opposite side, Prudens Point as well. If you kayak my advice would be to fish the nearest available areas to where you are staying and be extra safe. Tobin is deceivingly big.