Clear Lake Fishing near Red Lake, Ontario

• Overview

  The Kenora District entry here is Clear Lake, in Ontario. Elevation runs to 287 metres. It measures some 1.49 sq km, and wind has room to build across it. The margin runs to about 7.0 km in total. Supplies mean a trip to Red Lake, 291 km off. Winnipeg sits 540 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Clear Lake

  We hold no depth figure for this one. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Public occurrence data for Kenora District names northern pike, longnose sucker and white sucker. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. On Clear Lake the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs -23°C to 16°C. Ice holds for a long stretch, so the open weeks matter more here than further south. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid May. On average, mid May opens the water and early November closes it again. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. Plan around that when you fish Clear Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Throop Lake sits 6.2 km off and takes the overflow. Nothing on Clear Lake should be assumed from this page alone.