Bankfield Lake near Greenstone: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  You will find Bankfield Lake in Thunder Bay District, Ontario. The country here is boreal forest. Surface area runs to roughly 4.62 sq km, so plan for one area rather than the whole. The outline measures near 30 km, so a boat opens up water the bank never reaches. Size puts it in the front rank of our Thunder Bay District list. The nearest place of any size is Greenstone, 29 km away. For a city, Thunder Bay is 234 km off. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Bankfield Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Open biodiversity records for Thunder Bay District list cisco, blackfin cisco, rainbow smelt, bloater and shortjaw cisco. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Bankfield Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -20°C to 16°C. Open water arrives late and leaves early, which concentrates the fishing. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early May. Averages place the thaw at early May and the freeze at mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Plan around that when you fish Bankfield Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. One rod, a handful of hooks and floats, and a few small lures are enough for this water. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. The nearest alternative is Kasmir Lake, 3.9 km out. Rules at Bankfield Lake are worth checking on the day.