Fishing Bonnet Lake in Kenora District, Ontario

• Overview

  Bonnet Lake is a Kenora District water, in Ontario. Everything around it is mixed forest. With some 32 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Roughly 3.4 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. Our Kenora District list holds plenty of bigger water. Nearest place of any size is Sioux Lookout, 5.3 km away. The nearest city of size is Thunder Bay, 274 km away. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Bonnet Lake

  No figure exists for depth, so let the water show you. 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. Across Kenora District, recorded fish include northern pike, longnose sucker, white sucker and johnny darter. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Read Bonnet Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 18°C and January reads -18°C. The season turns properly here, and fish follow it closely. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from late April. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly mid November. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. On Bonnet Lake that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No made access appears within a short radius, so plan to park on a verge and walk. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Flavour Lake is 1.7 km distant. What applies at Bonnet Lake may have changed since it was mapped.