Fishing Badre Lake in Kelsey, Manitoba

• Overview

  Set in Kelsey, Manitoba, this is Badre Lake. The country here is northern bush. At about 28 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Shoreline comes to about 2.7 km, small enough to learn in a day. On size it sits at the modest end of our Kelsey list. The closest town, Snow Lake, is 7.5 km distant. Further out sit Flin Flon (120 km) and Creighton (122 km). No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Badre Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Fish documented in Kelsey include white sucker, johnny darter and northern pike. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. At Badre Lake the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 17°C, while January sits near -23°C. Open water arrives late and leaves early, which concentrates the fishing. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Expect the water usable from around early May until roughly early November. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. Badre Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, McLeod Lake is 0.9 km off. Check the position on Badre Lake before loading the car.