Little Red Fox Lake, Ontario: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  This water sits in Thunder Bay District, Ontario. The setting is lake country bush. The water measures roughly 5 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Thunder Bay District. Some 71 km away sits Grand Marais, the nearest settlement. The big place round here is Thunder Bay, 117 km distant. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Little Red Fox Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Records held for Thunder Bay District cover cisco, blackfin cisco, rainbow smelt, bloater and shortjaw cisco. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. At Little Red Fox Lake the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July near 18°C and January near -16°C on the long-run figures. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. After late April the shallows warm and the fish move up. The water is typically free of ice between late April and mid November. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. The season on Little Red Fox Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. A light spinning outfit with a small box of lures and some bait covers most of what swims here. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. The nearest alternative is Mud Lake, 1.6 km out. Treat Little Red Fox Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.