Honour Lake Fishing Guide, Thunder Bay District, Ontario

• Overview

  Set in Thunder Bay District, Honour Lake is an Ontario water. The ground around here is northern bush. The water covers some 47 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. At about 6.1 km of edge, most people work one arm at a time. Manitouwadge lies 54 km from the water. Thunder Bay sits 291 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Honour Lake

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Reported across Thunder Bay District: cisco, blackfin cisco, rainbow smelt and bloater. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. Honour Lake fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -18°C to 16°C. The ice season is long here and the open one short. Break-up comes around early May, and the run that follows is short and strong. On the long-run averages the water opens up around early May and starts locking again about mid November. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. On Honour Lake that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. One rod, a handful of hooks and floats, and a few small lures are enough for this water. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Upper Taradale Lake, 3.1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Honour Lake as something to verify.