MANITOULIN—Lewis Lake has been a popular fishing spot for many anglers both local and visiting from across the province and beyond. Recently, a large billboard was placed across the best location to launch a boat, leaving anglers frustrated and garnering numerous complaints.
Despite assurances from the Ministry of Transportation several weeks ago that the sign would be moved, it has remained stubbornly in place. The Little Current Fish and Game Club reached out to Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Bill Rosenberg about the issue and were pleased by his response.
“Our latest conversation with the MTO was positive,” wrote MPP Rosenberg to the club in a July 11 email. “They have given the sign company until next Friday to move the sign or they will have it moved by the highway maintenance company.”
“It was really good news,” said LCFGC member and former president Bill Strain, who noted that the MTO had indicated to MPP Rosenberg that the owners of the sign had been told by the MTO to move it back on June 28. “Now if they don’t comply, the ministry will do it for them.”
Lewis Lake spans some 384.9 hectares (approximately 951 acres or 3.8 square kilometers) and is located about eight kilometres north of the Manitoulin swing bridge off Highway 6. The lake is a popular place to haul in some large northern pike, bass and is one of the few inland lakes in the Manitoulin District where an angler can find muskellunge, the ever elusive and legendary “muskie.”
The location once hosted one of the only “free” camping spots to be found in Ontario, but that ended several years ago when it was closed by the owner following incidents vandalism and extreme littering.
