Fishing Blackburns Lake in Louise, Manitoba

• Overview

  This water sits in Louise, Manitoba. Elevation runs to 455 metres. It runs to roughly 68 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. With about 4.2 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. By surface area it heads our Louise listings. The nearest town is Killarney, 55 km away. Further out sit Morden (60 km) and Rolla (69 km). The boundary is near enough that local access rules are worth double-checking.

• Where to Fish on Blackburns Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Fish documented in Louise include black bullhead, johnny darter, white sucker, creek chub and eastern blacknose dace. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Blackburns Lake the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 19°C at the top of summer and -17°C at the bottom of winter. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. Climate averages put the opening at about late April and the closing near mid November. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. That shapes the year on Blackburns Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. It is recorded as intermittent, which means the basin empties in dry spells. For the catfish, fish bottom baits into the deeper holes and let them sit. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. For a change of water, Balfours Lake is 1.9 km distant. Check the position on Blackburns Lake before loading the car.