One Portage Lake in Manitoba: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  One Portage Lake sits within Manitoba in Manitoba. The water sits 308 metres up. It runs to roughly 11 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Around 1.5 km of margin, front to back. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Manitoba. Flin Flon lies 13 km from the water. After that come Creighton at 14 km and Pelican Narrows at 92 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on One Portage Lake

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. On One Portage Lake the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort. Cover on the bank counts as much as cover below the surface.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 17°C in July and bottom out at -22°C in January. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. Climate averages put the opening at about early May and the closing near early November. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Anyone fishing One Portage Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. The map shows no ramp or car park nearby, so this is a walk-in water. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. For a change of water, Two Portage Lake is 1 km distant. Where One Portage Lake is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.