Heart Lake in Whitemouth: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Heart Lake is one of the Whitemouth waters in Manitoba. What surrounds it is rolling bush. It measures some 9.31 sq km, and wind has room to build across it. There is roughly 39 km of bank, and each arm behaves like its own water. Among the waters listed for Whitemouth, none is wider. You are 32 km from Lac du Bonnet. Beausejour is 60 km away, with Ste. Anne at 85 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Heart Lake

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Species logged across Whitemouth include johnny darter, logperch, mooneye, smallmouth bass and walleye. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. Work Heart Lake in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 19°C; the cold one sits at -18°C. Winter closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. The lid tends to go about late April and return around mid November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. It holds true on Heart Lake more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. The nearest alternative is Picket Lake, 4.2 km out. Check the current arrangement for Heart Lake.