Fishing at Mosso Lake, Kelsey, Manitoba

• Overview

  Mosso Lake is one of the Kelsey waters in Manitoba. This is spruce and muskeg country. The water covers some 26 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. Bank access stretches around 3.1 km in total. On size it sits at the modest end of our Kelsey list. Nearest place of any size is Snow Lake, 10 km away. Flin Flon is 111 km and Creighton 113 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Mosso Lake

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Species logged across Kelsey include white sucker, johnny darter, northern pike, walleye and silver redhorse. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. Read Mosso Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put July at about 17°C and January near -23°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough early May. Climate averages put the opening at about early May and the closing near early November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. That is the shape of the year on Mosso Lake.

• 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. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Should this one be busy, Varnson Lake is 1 km off. Treat Mosso Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.