Low, flat cloud sitting over the water, with a consistent blow out of the SW and a falling glass. Start the search at Bond Lake along points where shallow meets deep. The morning is where the day comes good. A careful, quiet approach will out-fish a busy one. Falling temperatures are switching fish back on.
The bites are poor now
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Bond Lake stands in Beltrami County, Minnesota. Land around it is lake country bush. The water measures roughly 7 acres, so nothing here is far from anything else. On size it sits at the modest end of our Beltrami County list. Some 2.7 miles away sits Redby, the nearest settlement. Then Red Lake, 5.2 miles, and Little Rock, 9.1 miles. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.
Nothing we hold settles how deep this runs. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Records held for Beltrami County cover walleye, yellow perch, northern pike, largemouth bass and white sucker. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. Read Bond Lake for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.
Long-run averages give July about 67°F and January about 4°F. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. The lid usually goes in late April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. The season between ice runs from about late April to late November. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. The season on Bond Lake rarely departs from it.
Access is not recorded for this water. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Kinney Lake sits 0.4 miles off and takes the overflow. Confirm access to Bond Lake locally before you travel.
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| 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 6.5 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 6.6 | 7.2 | 8.4 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13 | 12.1 | 12.1 | 12.9 | 13.6 | 12.7 | 12.9 | 13.2 | 11.6 | 12.7 | 13.1 | 14 |
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| 30.03 | 30.01 | 29.99 | 29.98 | 29.98 | 29.97 | 29.95 | 29.94 | 29.93 | 29.91 | 29.9 | 29.87 | 29.83 | 29.78 | 29.76 | 29.76 | 29.75 | 29.76 | 29.77 | 29.79 | 29.8 | 29.82 | 29.84 | 29.85 |
| 93 | 92 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 93 | 92 | 92 | 93 | 90 | 82 | 76 | 70 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 72 | 76 | 79 | 79 | 79 | 71 | 69 | 69 |
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