fishing Minnesota style on hungry jack lake
at Hungry Jack Lodge family fishing resort

Hungry Jack Lodge is one of the oldest fishing resorts on northern Minnesota's Gunflint Trail and offers a variety of fishing experiences both summer and during the MN winter ice fishing season for your whole family. Hungry Jack Lake is a MN DNR Smallmouth Bass managed trophy lake. As a result, guests of our MN family fishing resort will generally catch smallmouth bass that are larger than what is normally caught in similar Gunflint Trail lakes.  Walleye and Northern Pike are also plentiful at our MN fishing resort and the sizes of fish being caught have been getting larger in recent years.  

Being adjacent to the BWCAW guests at our northern Minnesota fishing resort also have the opportunity to fish the mid Gunflint Trail lakes inside the BWCA(W) very easily. By renting a canoe and taking two very short portages you will be in the BWCAW and some of the best fishing lakes in Minnesota.  So, you can easily fish not just Hungry Jack Lake, but many other surrounding lakes with ease while a guest at our Gunflint Trail family fishing resort.

Hungry Jack is a Minnesota DNR managed smallmouth bass trophy lake.  We also enjoy excellent walleye fishing.  Hungry Jack Lake is 463 acres in size with a maximum depth of 71'.  Full fishing guide services, with boat rentals are available, through Hungry Jack Lodge & Campground on a total of six lakes without motor restrictions. MN fishing licenses, live bait and tackle are available at right here at our family fishing resort.  View some of our Gunflint Trail fishing photos.  We recently added some new fishing photos to the slideshow of fish and fishing photos.

2009  FISHING  SEASONS and regulations 

The 2009 Minnesota opening date for Walleye fishing is May 9th and the opening date for Smallmouth Bass fishing is May 23rd. State of Minnesota fishing licenses are available in the Hungry Jack Lodge & Campground business office, located in our main lodge.  Maps for area lakes and the BWCA are available in our business office, bait shop and the Loggers Lounge.  A free map of Hungry Jack Lake is also available.

The following quotations were taken from the 2001 & 2002 Minnesota DNR lake survey for Hungry Jack lake.

"Hungry Jack Lake has good numbers of walleye with many age classes present. Average size of walleye collected in 2001 was excellent."

"the 2001 survey showed a good percentage of bass over 14 inches."

"Rainbow smelt and yellow perch occur in fairly high numbers and provide good forage for larger predators like walleye, lake trout, and northern pike."

"There are good numbers of bluegill in Hungry Jack Lake" ----" A good bluegill population is unusual for lakes in this area."

Below are excepts from the 2002 Minnesota DNR lake survey for Hungry Jack Lake:

"Average size of lake trout collected in 2002 was excellent."

"Smallmouth bass abundance appeared to have been about average for a lake of this type; however, the average size of the fish collected in 2002 was above average."

Fish stocked in Hungry Jack lake since 1999

For your convenience, we have included a link to the State of Minnesota DNR website, regulations page.  At that page, you can view and download the latest regulations relating to fishing, hunting, snowmobiles, etc.

Permits are required for all visitors of the BWCA, whether for a day or overnight.  If you want to canoe, hike or fish in the BWCA, Hungry Jack Lodge & Campground will provide you with a free "day use" permit.  For more information about about BWCA permits visit http://www.bwca.cc/tripplanning/reservations.htm