Routes From Matheson to Lake Abitibi

I plan on heading up and staying in Black River-Matheson and was wondering if there are any trails/back roads that I could take to get from Matheson to Lake Abitibi using a snowmobile. Everything I see is people heading from Cochrane over to Abitibi. I know the area fairly well just not how to get to Abitibi by sled.

Also if you have fished Abitibi hows the bite been and is the ice thick enough to require an auger extension?

If you want to fish the west end of Lake Abitibi, you need to access from North of Munro Lake, there is a winter maintained cottage road and usually logging operations that will get you close the the Mouth of the Abitibi.

Narrows and Ghost River areas on Lake Abitibi are usually accessed through Ghost River landing, this could mean snowmobiling from the highway.

No extension required at the mouth of the Abitibi, or Narrows areas, anywhere else I would bring one.

2 years ago we were pretty much bottoming out a gas powered jiffy 3rd week of January just about at the river mouth... Think if you have one you should have it on hand

Thanks, I was up there in Matheson Family Day Weekend on some smaller lakes and didnt need extension. I had about 6" before I bottomed out my auger so I doubt the ice has gotten 6" thicken with the warm spell thats been up there but your right bring an extension if I have one.

On that same trip we were amazed at how prepared our buddy was for things we didn't even consider(which I'm glad for as it was a 7.5hr drive then a 35km skidoo ride to our cabin) and he told me "I would rather be looking at it than looking for it" words of wisdom right there!

I’m the same way

How deep is this lake, not allot of information concerning depth

As far as I know, its not very deep. In the later months of ice fishing you may only be fishing a few feet of water. I believe the average depth is around 6' with some deeper holes down to 20' but since the lake is so large is hard to know exactly. https://www.northernontario.travel/fishing/...ig-lake-abitibi Has some good information about fishing it.

I Talked to a couple of my buddies from Kirkland Lake and most of them go in on easker park road and Highway 101 by the ghost River.

Also found a App for you phone called “I boat” that has lake contours. Not sure how accurate it is.

I'd give it 80-90% accuracy.
In my experience, it's a good general idea, but not right on, for both depths/locations.

I have been looking how to get there for years now lol is there cabins you can rent before you go

they have couple of outfitter there google outfitter on lake abitibi

Thanks