Spear Lake in Kenora District: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  In Ontario, Spear Lake belongs to Kenora District. The bank is 405 metres above sea level. Surface area is around 10 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. The edge runs 1.8 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. Most waters listed here for Kenora District are larger. Ignace is the closest place, 46 km off. Dryden is 48 km and Sioux Lookout 70 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Spear Lake

  Depth here is unknown, so count the lead down before committing. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Survey and observation records for Kenora District include northern pike, longnose sucker, white sucker, johnny darter and logperch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Anyone new to Spear Lake should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 18°C and January near -18°C. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. The open-water window runs from around late April to about mid November in an average year. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Spear Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. A phone call first saves an afternoon. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Mennin Lake at 1.2 km is the sensible second choice. Nothing on Spear Lake should be assumed from this page alone.