Fishing Nice Lake in Kings County, New Brunswick

• Overview

  Nice Lake is a Kings County water, in New Brunswick. Salt water lies 8.6 km off. With some 13 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Roughly 1.7 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. 8.7 km away sits Hampton, the nearest town. Dartmouth sits 211 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Nice Lake

  Depth is unknown to us, and the shoreline is the better guide. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. County-wide records name alewife, Atlantic salmon, yellow perch, brook trout and rainbow smelt. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Nice Lake gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July near 18°C and January near -9°C on the long-run figures. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid April. Ice usually gives way near mid April, and forms again about early December. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. Nice Lake runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. If the gate is shut, Pickett Lake at 1.9 km is the nearest alternative. Ask locally about Nice Lake if anything is unclear.