Kozar Lake Fishing in Ethelbert, Manitoba

• Overview

  Kozar Lake is an Ethelbert water, in Manitoba. The land about it is taiga. At about 30 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Shoreline comes to about 2.9 km, small enough to learn in a day. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Manitoba listings. Swan River lies 55 km from the water. The big place round here is Regina, 297 km distant. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Kozar Lake

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Ethelbert records list Iowa darter, yellow perch, northern pike, white sucker and rainbow trout among the fish reported. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Kozar Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 16°C; by January the average is down near -19°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. After early May the shallows warm and the fish move up. In an average year the thaw lands around early May and the freeze near early November. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. On Kozar Lake the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Shell Lake, 1.9 km away, makes the obvious fallback. What applies at Kozar Lake may have changed since it was mapped.