Elgin Reservoir

At a glance

Area

20 ha (50 acres)

Mean depth (estimated)

≈ 1.9 m (6 ft)

Mean depth: HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016)

Who lives here

• Brown trout Salmo truttaStocked · 2025 · Fish stocking: Manitoba Wildlife and Fisheries Branch (Manitoba Lake Information for Anglers). Contains information licensed under the Manitoba Open Data Licence
• Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykissStocked · 2017 · Fish stocking: Manitoba Wildlife and Fisheries Branch (Manitoba Lake Information for Anglers). Contains information licensed under the Manitoba Open Data Licence

Not listed doesn't mean no fish.

Getting on the water

No public access site is listed for this water yet.

Listed by public agencies. A listed site doesn't make the water or its shore open to fishing: when in doubt, it's unknown. Check signs and local rules.

The rules

Summary, not the law. Check the official regulations before you fish.

• Brown troutOpen, size limits · 3 a day
• Rainbow troutOpen, size limits · 3 a day

As of October 25, 2026, for a fish of any size.

Official regulations: Manitoba Natural Resources

Official sources:

• Manitoba Anglers' Guide 2026 (Manitoba government). Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB) (p. 20, Stocked Trout Waters (open all year))

What's biting

This water is too small for community summaries: on a small water a summary could point to someone's spot.

About this page

Sources and licences:

• Natural Resources Canada, CanVec Hydro Features (1:50,000). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.; Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB); Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Boundary Files (census divisions and subdivisions, provinces). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• Lake mean depth: HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016, Nature Communications 7:13603), CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 4.0
• Fish stocking: Manitoba Wildlife and Fisheries Branch (Manitoba Lake Information for Anglers). Contains information licensed under the Manitoba Open Data Licence · Manitoba Open Data Licence (OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence, https://www.gov.mb.ca/legal/copyright.html, checked 2026-10-18): "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes". Item 42b7b0930d304ea4a5457cf046507253 (Manitoba_Government): licenseInfo "Manitoba Open Data Licence".

The outline is drawn from the official water data credited above, without a basemap. These pages show no angler's catches, spots or tracks.