Yes go to the Kitty/Crotch/Farm area, including Booth/Tattler. That's your best bet for pike in the park anyway. I caught a pike on my first cast in the weedy part of Booth that swede is describing. Not sure about larger sized bass, maybe someone else can comment. But if you want pike your choices in the park are limited.

Late Aug and Sept may be some of the best times to fish for pike, when water temps start to cool off. Most of the large pike I've caught at this time were caught by trolling for hours and hours, and covering more shoreline area than with casting (although hotspots of course deserve more attention).

I've caught large pike in Georgian Bay at Moon river but there will be many more places with time spent poking around here and there. An esocid specialist I've worked with said the largest pike may be the ones in deeper water further offshore, off rocky points and islands and away from the weedy bays that are the more usual habitats that produce pike. Troll 'em all.

If you are going to fish smaller lakes for bass, it might be best to fish where pike don't co-exist with them. In some of the lakes surrounding the park, invading pike are out-competing smallmouth bass and formerly good bass lakes and rivers now only produce pike, and small ones at that. Booth lake catch should be interesting to watch over the years to see if SMB are replaced by pike.


Anyway, trolling shorelines is a most enjoyable way to spend time while canoeing and different from the more usual charge across the lake... good luck and a large pike will yield most enjoyable fillets to have at the end of the day as well (much better than bass IMHO).