Fishing at Simpson Lake, Manitoba, Manitoba

• Overview

  Set in Manitoba, Simpson Lake is a Manitoba water. The bank gives way to northern bush. This is sizeable water at about 1.70 sq km, and a boat opens up most of it. Some 10 km of bank gives room to move when the wind turns. Thompson lies 204 km from the water. Then Snow Lake, 223 km, and Pelican Narrows, 244 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Simpson Lake

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Read Simpson Lake for ten minutes before the first cast goes out. Cover your ground slowly and you will find the productive stretch.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 16°C, the coldest about -26°C. Ice holds for a long stretch, so the open weeks matter more here than further south. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from mid May. In an average year the thaw lands around mid May and the freeze near early November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. At Simpson Lake the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. For a change of water, Swede Lake is 2.1 km distant. Nothing here settles the position at Simpson Lake for certain.