Fishing at Squeers Lake, Thunder Bay District, Ontario

• Overview

  Set in Thunder Bay District, Squeers Lake is an Ontario water. Around the bank it is rolling bush. Roughly 3.69 sq km of surface: treat each bay as a water in its own right. The margin runs to about 10.0 km in total. On our Thunder Bay District list it sits near the top for size. For a base, Atikokan sits 83 km out. Beyond it, Grand Marais at 87 km and Lappe at 89 km. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Squeers Lake

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Thunder Bay District records list cisco, blackfin cisco, rainbow smelt, bloater and shortjaw cisco among the fish reported. County data is a starting point rather than a guarantee. Fish Squeers Lake to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 17°C in July and bottom out at -17°C in January. Winter shuts the surface down for months. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. The season between ice runs from about late April to mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Anyone fishing Squeers Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. One rod, a handful of hooks and floats, and a few small lures are enough for this water. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Should this one be busy, Church Lake is 1.4 km off. What applies at Squeers Lake may have changed since it was mapped.