A clean, cloudless night over the water, with a whisper of wind from the N with a settled glass. The water to cover at Lost Lake is the first drop-off and weed lines. A broad window opens from the day. Commit to the pattern once the first fish shows. Biting air and slow fish: small baits, long pauses.
The bites are average now
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Set in Manitoba, this is Lost Lake. The country here is mixed forest. The water measures roughly 5 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. On size it sits at the modest end of our Manitoba list. Head to Kenora, 50 km away, for anything you forgot. Winnipeg sits 141 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.
Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Fish Lost Lake where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep. The name is not unique in this state, so check the county before you drive.
Climate records put July near 19°C and January near -19°C. A hard winter is normal, and the thaw brings a strong few weeks. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near mid November in autumn. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. It sets the rhythm of the year at Lost Lake.
Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. A platform or pier sits within 670 m. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. For a change of water, West Hawk Lake is 2.3 km distant. For Lost Lake, the notice at the access point is the final word.
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The bites are average now
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| 8.4 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 9.1 | 9.6 | 10.3 | 12 | 11.3 | 11.6 | 13.1 | 14.1 | 14 | 13.8 | 13.8 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 12.5 | 11.5 | 11.6 | 11.4 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.9 |
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| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 103 | 103 | 103 | 103 |
| 91 | 91 | 91 | 92 | 92 | 92 | 92 | 88 | 86 | 87 | 87 | 81 | 75 | 69 | 66 | 65 | 65 | 68 | 73 | 74 | 74 | 73 | 74 | 74 |
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