Lonely Lakes Fishing near South Browning, Montana

• Overview

  Lonely Lakes is a Glacier County water, Montana side. Beyond the shoreline you have mixed forest. This is a pocket water of some 21 acres, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. The town to know is South Browning, 17 miles out. Browning is 17 miles away, with North Browning at 18 miles. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lonely Lakes

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. 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. Reported across Glacier County: brook trout, northern pike, longnose sucker, yellow perch and mountain whitefish. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. On Lonely Lakes a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 17°F in January up to 55°F in August. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid May. Ice usually gives way near mid May, and forms again about mid November. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Lonely Lakes fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Light line and small metal for the trout; a fly rod earns its place on calm evenings. Sort the permit out before you load the car. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Should this one be busy, Running Crane Lake is 1.4 miles off. Nothing on Lonely Lakes should be assumed from this page alone.