Northwest Mountain Lake Fishing in Kenora District, Ontario

• Overview

  Northwest Mountain Lake lies within the bounds of Kenora District, Ontario. The surface lies 373 metres up. It measures about 76 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. There is roughly 11 km of bank, more than one visit can cover properly. You are 30 km from Kenora. The big place round here is Winnipeg, 208 km distant. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Northwest Mountain Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Open biodiversity records for Kenora District list northern pike, longnose sucker, white sucker, johnny darter and logperch. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. The near bank of Northwest Mountain Lake is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 19°C, with January the cold end at about -18°C. A hard winter is normal, and the thaw brings a strong few weeks. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. It holds true on Northwest Mountain Lake more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Cross Lake, 2 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Northwest Mountain Lake for certain.