Little Mink Lake Fishing in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska

• Overview

  Set in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, this is Little Mink Lake. The country round it is rolling bush from end to end. Surface area is around 70 acres, which gives you real water without needing a boat. The full circuit measures close to 1.6 miles on foot. The nearest town is Sterling, 8.2 miles away. For a city, Anchorage is 48 miles off. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Little Mink Lake

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Kenai Peninsula Borough records list northern pike, sockeye salmon, rainbow trout, Coho salmon and Chinook salmon among the fish reported. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Little Mink Lake gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 16°F in January up to 57°F in July. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Ice usually gives way near late April, and forms again about early November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Plan around that when you fish Little Mink Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No made access appears within a short radius, so plan to park on a verge and walk. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Big Mink Lake at 0.4 miles is the sensible second choice. Confirm before you fish Little Mink Lake.