Ogas Lake in Manitoba: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Manitoba holds Ogas Lake, in Manitoba. Everything around it is rolling bush. The water covers around 1.95 sq km, which puts most of it out of reach from the bank. The shoreline runs about 14 km, so it pays to pick a stretch and stay with it. You are 127 km from Oxford House. Further out sit Norway House (131 km) and Cross Lake 19A (153 km). It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Ogas Lake

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. 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. Work Ogas Lake in sections rather than trying to cover it. Rainfall totals about 531 mm a year, heaviest in August and lightest in February.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about -22°C and July at about 17°C, the water has a wide range to work through. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near early November: that is the shape of an average year. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Anyone fishing Ogas Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. For a change of water, Weekwaymot Lake is 7.7 km distant. Confirm before you fish Ogas Lake.