Oldman Lake Fishing near South Browning, Montana

• Overview

  This water sits in Glacier County, Montana. Beyond the shoreline you have mixed forest. It measures about 43 acres, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. The bank runs about 1.1 miles all the way round, so one visit can cover most of it. Some 21 miles away sits South Browning, the nearest settlement. The nearest city of size is Lethbridge, 87 miles away. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Oldman Lake

  No figure exists for depth, so let the water show you. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Across Glacier County, recorded fish include brook trout, northern pike, longnose sucker and yellow perch. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. At Oldman Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect August to average close to 54°F, with January the cold end at about 16°F. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid May. On the long-run averages the water opens up around mid May and starts locking again about early November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. The season on Oldman Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. You can camp about half a mile away, going by the mapping. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. For a change of water, Pitamakan Lake is 0.7 miles distant. Where Oldman Lake is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.