Fishing Summit Lake in Kenora District, Ontario

• Overview

  This water sits in Kenora District, Ontario. It stands 376 metres above sea level. At about 15 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. There is roughly 1.9 km of shoreline here, which is a short walk end to end. On size it sits at the modest end of our Kenora District list. The closest town, Emo, is 46 km away. It is 266 km to Winnipeg, the nearest city. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Summit Lake

  We hold no depth figure for this one. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Open biodiversity records for Kenora District list northern pike, longnose sucker, white sucker, johnny darter and logperch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Summit Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 19°C, the coldest about -17°C. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Break-up comes around late April, and the run that follows is short and strong. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about mid November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. The season on Summit Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. For a change of water, Weld Lake is 2.5 km distant. Check the position at Summit Lake before loading the car.