Fishing Insole Lake in Kelsey, Manitoba

• Overview

  You will find Insole Lake in Kelsey, Manitoba. Land around it is spruce and muskeg. With some 12 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. The whole outline is near 1.8 km, and most of it is walkable. Our Kelsey list holds plenty of bigger water. The closest town, Thompson, is 55 km away. It is 608 km to Winnipeg, the nearest city. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Insole Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Public occurrence data for Kelsey names white sucker, johnny darter, northern pike and walleye. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. On Insole Lake a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 16°C, with January the cold end at about -24°C. The freeze holds for the better part of the year. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around mid May. The open-water window runs from around mid May to about early November in an average year. June through September is the settled part of the year, with the shoulders busier for fish. Anyone fishing Insole Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Marshall Lake, 4.9 km away, makes the obvious fallback. For Insole Lake, the notice at the access point is the final word.