Flavour Lake Fishing in Kenora District, Ontario

• Overview

  The Kenora District end of Ontario holds Flavour Lake. What surrounds it is mixed forest. Roughly 36 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Bank access stretches around 3.8 km in total. For a base, Sioux Lookout sits 5.2 km out. Thunder Bay is the closest city, 273 km away. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Flavour Lake

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. County-wide records name northern pike, longnose sucker, white sucker and johnny darter. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. On Flavour Lake that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -18°C to 18°C. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around late April. In an average year the thaw lands around late April and the freeze near mid November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Time your trip to Flavour Lake by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Should this one be busy, Bonnet Lake is 1.7 km off. Treat Flavour Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.