Bertoia Lake in Kenora District: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Bertoia Lake lies in Kenora District, Ontario. It lies 249 metres above sea level. It runs to roughly 65 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. The edge runs 3.4 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. You are 230 km from Longlac. Thunder Bay sits 411 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Bertoia Lake

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Across Kenora District, recorded fish include northern pike, longnose sucker and white sucker. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. At Bertoia Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 16°C and January reads -22°C. Ice holds for a long stretch, so the open weeks matter more here than further south. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around early May. Average temperatures cross freezing around early May in spring and again near early November in autumn. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Time your trip to Bertoia Lake by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Stelman Lake, 0.9 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the position at Bertoia Lake before loading the car.