Madwort Lake, Ontario: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  You will find Madwort Lake in Thunder Bay District, Ontario. Everything around it is northern bush. It measures about 43 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. Roughly 3.1 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. Longlac lies 45 km from the water. Thunder Bay is the closest city, 241 km away. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Madwort Lake

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. County-wide records name cisco, blackfin cisco, rainbow smelt and bloater. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Madwort Lake that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -18°C to 16°C. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around early May. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. The season on Madwort Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. 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. A light spinning outfit with a small box of lures and some bait covers most of what swims here. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Starwort Lake sits 2 km off and takes the overflow. Nothing here settles the position at Madwort Lake for certain.