Crooked Green Lake in Thunder Bay District: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Crooked Green Lake sits within Thunder Bay District in Ontario. The surface lies 335 metres up. The water covers some 90 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. You are looking at roughly 9.0 km of shoreline, with plenty of water between access points. Start from Greenstone, 46 km down the road. For a city, Thunder Bay is 200 km off. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Crooked Green Lake

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Reported across Thunder Bay District: cisco, blackfin cisco, rainbow smelt, bloater and shortjaw cisco. County data is a starting point rather than a guarantee. At Crooked Green Lake light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 16°C; by January the average is down near -20°C. This far north the hard season runs and runs. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around early May. On average, early May opens the water and mid November closes it again. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. On Crooked Green Lake the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. 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. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Should this one be busy, Castlewood Lake is 3.9 km off. Treat access at Crooked Green Lake as something to verify.