Moses Lake in Manitoba: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Moses Lake is a Manitoba water, Manitoba side. The country round it is northern bush from end to end. Roughly 2.68 sq km of surface: treat each bay as a water in its own right. With 8.0 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. For supplies, Thompson is 215 km out. Saskatoon is the closest city, 641 km away. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Moses Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Moses Lake gives up its fish to patience rather than distance. Rainfall totals about 493 mm a year, heaviest in July and lightest in February.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 16°C in July and bottoms out near -25°C in January. Ice holds for a long stretch, so the open weeks matter more here than further south. Count the season from break-up, usually mid May. The lid tends to go about mid May and return around early November. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. That is the shape of the year on Moses Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. For a change of water, Mary Lake is 1.5 km distant. None of that is settled for Moses Lake in what we hold.