Lake · Thunder Bay, Ontario
Goodmorning Lakes
At a glance
- Area
- 9 ha (22 acres)
This lake's year
A ring of the twelve months, January at the top: the outer band is the ice cover, the inner rings the spawning months of the lake's species, and a needle marks the day this page was updated. The list beside it says the same.
- No published ice dates for this lake.
- 1. Brook stickleback spawns: Apr–Jul (months cited for Great Lakes populations)
- 2. Fathead minnow spawns: Apr–Sep (months cited for Great Lakes populations)
- 3. Lake chub spawns: Apr–Jul (months cited for Great Lakes populations)
- 4. Northern redbelly dace spawns: May–Aug (months cited for Great Lakes populations)
- Needle: Oct 25, the day this page was updated
Spawning months from each species' cited source for this region, for its five best-recorded species here; ice dates from the published record (sources below). Summer layering and fall turnover are drawn only for lakes the USGS has modelled (in the U.S. Midwest).
Who lives here
- Brook trout Salvelinus fontinalisStocked · 2025 · Fish stocking: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario
- Brook stickleback Culaea inconstansOn the agency's list · Fish species lists: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resource Area polygon segments. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario
- Fathead minnow Pimephales promelasOn the agency's list · Fish species lists: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resource Area polygon segments. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario
- Finescale dace Chrosomus neogaeusOn the agency's list · Fish species lists: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resource Area polygon segments. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario
- Lake chub Couesius plumbeusOn the agency's list · Fish species lists: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resource Area polygon segments. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario
- Longnose sucker Catostomus catostomusOn the agency's list · Fish species lists: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resource Area polygon segments. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario
- Northern redbelly dace Chrosomus eosOn the agency's list · Fish species lists: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resource Area polygon segments. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario
Not listed doesn't mean no fish.
Stocking
| Year | Species | Stage | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Brook Trout | Adult | 537 |
| 2025 | Brook Trout | Yearlings | 2,000 |
| 2024 | Brook Trout | Yearlings | 2,163 |
| 2023 | Brook Trout | Adult | 503 |
| 2023 | Brook Trout | Yearlings | 2,000 |
| 2022 | Brook Trout | Yearlings | 2,838 |
| 2021 | Brook Trout | Yearlings | 2,000 |
| 2020 | Brook Trout | Yearlings | 2,000 |
As the agency publishes it. Newest first: 8 of 8.
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.
HuntGrid has no rules for this water yet.
Official regulations: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
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, provinces). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
- Fish species lists: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resource Area polygon segments. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario · Open Government Licence – Ontario v1.0 (https://www.ontario.ca/page/open-government-licence-ontario, checked 2026-10-19): "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes" … "Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose." data.ontario.ca aquatic-resource-area-polygon-segment: licence OGL-ON-1.0, access open; the map service: "This data is subject to terms of use. https://www.ontario.ca/page/open-government-licence-ontario".
- Fish stocking: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario · Open Government Licence – Ontario v1.0 (https://www.ontario.ca/page/open-government-licence-ontario, checked 2026-10-16): "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes" … "Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose." data.ontario.ca record fish-stocking and its ArcGIS item: licence OGL-ON-1.0.
Spawning months:
- Brook stickleback: Goodyear, C.D., T.A. Edsall, D.M. Ormsby Dempsey, G.D. Moss, and P.E. Polanski. 1982. Atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes, Volume XIII: Reproductive characteristics of Great Lakes fishes. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. FWS/OBS-82/52, p. 104 (Great Lakes populations: spawning April to mid-July at 40-74 °F, sometimes twice)
- Fathead minnow: Goodyear, C.D., T.A. Edsall, D.M. Ormsby Dempsey, G.D. Moss, and P.E. Polanski. 1982. Atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes, Volume XIII: Reproductive characteristics of Great Lakes fishes. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. FWS/OBS-82/52, p. 71 (Great Lakes populations: spawning late April to early September at 60-85 °F, more than once a season)
- Lake chub: Goodyear, C.D., T.A. Edsall, D.M. Ormsby Dempsey, G.D. Moss, and P.E. Polanski. 1982. Atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes, Volume XIII: Reproductive characteristics of Great Lakes fishes. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. FWS/OBS-82/52, p. 50 (Great Lakes populations: spawning April to early July)
- Northern redbelly dace: Goodyear, C.D., T.A. Edsall, D.M. Ormsby Dempsey, G.D. Moss, and P.E. Polanski. 1982. Atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes, Volume XIII: Reproductive characteristics of Great Lakes fishes. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. FWS/OBS-82/52, p. 69 (Great Lakes populations: spawning May-August at 65-78 °F, sometimes twice)
The outline is drawn from the official water data credited above, without a basemap. These pages show no angler's catches, spots or tracks.