Fishing at Tenth Lake, Rossburn, Manitoba

• Overview

  Set in Rossburn, Tenth Lake is a Manitoba water. Pine and birch runs right down to the water. Surface area is around 72 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. The perimeter runs near 12 km, so plan the walk before you start. Minnedosa lies 60 km from the water. Dauphin follows at 66 km, then Rivers at 67 km. The county edge is within a short distance of the bank.

• Where to Fish on Tenth Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Rossburn records list northern pike, Iowa darter, white sucker, rainbow trout and yellow perch among the fish reported. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. Tenth Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 18°C at the top of summer and -19°C at the bottom of winter. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. The lid usually goes in late April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Ice clears near late April and comes back about mid November in a typical year. The first weeks of open water and the last are the ones to plan for. On Tenth Lake that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Light line and small metal for the trout; a fly rod earns its place on calm evenings. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, Chipple Lake is 2.4 km off. None of that is settled for Tenth Lake in what we hold.