Stony Lake in Grahamdale: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  This water sits in Grahamdale, Manitoba. Height above sea level is 278 metres. With some 20 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. There is roughly 2.0 km of shoreline here, which is a short walk end to end. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Grahamdale. Supplies mean a trip to Arborg, 58 km off. For a city, Winnipeg is 139 km off. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Stony 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. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Fish documented in Grahamdale include walleye, freshwater drum, nipigon cisco, white sucker and yellow perch. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Stony Lake gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 18°C; the cold one sits at -19°C. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly late April. Climate averages put the opening at about late April and the closing near mid November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Anyone fishing Stony Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Walleye come to jigs worked slow near bottom, and to trolled crankbaits along the drops at dusk. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. For a change of water, Izzards Lake is 2.8 km distant. Treat access at Stony Lake as something to verify.