Boice Lake Fishing in Cochrane District, Ontario

• Overview

  Boice Lake is a Cochrane District water, in Ontario. Everything around it is spruce and muskeg. Surface area runs to about 3 hectares — small enough to read in one session. On size it sits at the modest end of our Cochrane District list. Hornepayne is the closest town at 43 km. Thunder Bay sits 361 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Boice Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Survey and observation records for Cochrane District include northern pike, yellow perch, white sucker, Iowa darter and logperch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Boice Lake gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 16°C; by January the average is down near -19°C. Cold dominates the calendar on water this far north. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. It sets the rhythm of the year at Boice Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Fournier Lake, 0.2 km away, makes the obvious fallback. For Boice Lake in particular, ask before you travel.