Camphouse Lake Fishing Guide, Thunder Bay District, Ontario

• Overview

  Camphouse Lake sits in Thunder Bay District, out in Ontario. It sits at 351 metres above sea level. Around 47 hectares of surface means several distinct areas to work. Roughly 4.6 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. Start from Manitouwadge, 54 km down the road. Hornepayne is 71 km and Wawa 94 km. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Camphouse Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. 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. At Camphouse Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -18°C to 16°C. The season is measured in weeks rather than months. Count the season from break-up, usually early May. Open water usually runs from early May until about mid November. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. On Camphouse Lake that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. The map shows no ramp or car park nearby, so this is a walk-in water. A light spinning outfit with a small box of lures and some bait covers most of what swims here. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. For a change of water, Pakoawaga Lake is 3.9 km distant. Nothing here settles the position at Camphouse Lake for certain.