Keele Lake, Yukon: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Keele Lake is a Faro water, Yukon side. Everything around it is northern bush. At 2.53 sq km this is proper open water rather than a pond. With 10 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. Norman Wells sits 263 km from here and is the nearest stop. Further out sit Whitehorse (392 km) and Watson Lake (394 km). One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Keele Lake

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Survey and observation records for Faro include Chinook salmon and Arctic grayling. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Keele Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 11°C, while January sits near -25°C. The ice season is long here and the open one short. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around late May. The water is typically free of ice between late May and early October. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Plan around that when you fish Keele Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Take the rules with you rather than trusting memory. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Algae Lake, 34 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Keele Lake should be assumed from this page alone.