Kite Lake Fishing near Sioux Lookout, Ontario

• Overview

  The Kenora District end of Ontario holds Kite Lake. Height above sea level is 394 metres. Roughly 42 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Shoreline comes to about 3.4 km, small enough to learn in a day. Sioux Lookout at 25 km is the nearest place to stop. The nearest city of size is Thunder Bay, 250 km away. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Kite Lake

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Kenora District records list northern pike, longnose sucker, white sucker and johnny darter among the fish reported. Species recorded across the county may be limited to a few waters. The near bank of Kite Lake is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 18°C on average, January about -18°C. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough late April. Open water usually runs from late April until about mid November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Plan around that when you fish Kite Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. 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. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Failing this one, try Sausage Lake, 2 km away. Rules at Kite Lake are worth checking on the day.