Fishing at Kickshaw Lake, Lake County, Minnesota

• Overview

  Kickshaw Lake stands in Lake County, Minnesota. It stands 1,663 feet above sea level. The water measures roughly 24 acres, so nothing here is far from anything else. It is high ground by Minnesota standards. You are 36 miles from Grand Marais. It is 86 miles to Thunder Bay, the nearest city. No boundary runs near, so the county rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Kickshaw Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Survey and observation records for Lake County include white sucker, yellow perch, northern pike, rainbow trout and walleye. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. At Kickshaw Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about 5°F in January to roughly 64°F in July. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Ice is part of the season here, ending near late April. Climate averages put the opening at about late April and the closing near mid November. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. That is the shape of the year on Kickshaw Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. John Elk Lake, 0.4 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat Kickshaw Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.