Big Sand Lake
One lake, 46 charted basins — combined figures below.
Big Sand Lake is the 10th-largest of 9,058 named lakes in Northeast Manitoba, with 385 miles of charted shoreline and 114 islands. The lake lies 92 km northeast of Lynn Lake.
Manitoba Fisheries · Waterbody Data
Fish species
Also present: Arctic Grayling, Burbot, Cisco, White Sucker
Historically recorded gamefish (Manitoba Fisheries, Waterbody Data) — not a survey.
On this water
Lodges & operators 1
- Big Sand Lake Lodge✓ Verifiedlodgefly-inamerican · housekeeping
A fly-in lodge on Big Sand Lake in far northern Manitoba, several hundred miles north of Winnipeg, which is the only camp on its lake and also runs four remote outpost camps on Chipewyan, Wolf, Jordan and LeClair lakes. Packages fly guests in from Winnipeg to the lodge's own airstrip for guided trophy lake trout, northern pike, walleye and Arctic grayling, or for guided moose, black bear and timber wolf hunts.
2026 regulations
Seasons & limitsNortheast Division
MNRF stocking records
Stocking history
MNRF recreational fish stocking recorded for this water.
| Year | Species | Fish stocked |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Lake Trout | 150,000 |
| 1990 | Rainbow Trout | 3,000 |
Comparable trips
Similar water
Same region, overlapping species, comparable size.
- Fishing Lake8 shared species · 14,384 ac
- Wrong Lake8 shared species · 7,572 ac
- North Knife Lake7 shared species · 26,814 ac
- Nueltin Lake7 shared species · 153,130 ac
- Egenolf Lake7 shared species · 22,126 ac
Around this water