Frozen Ocean Lake Fishing in Bishop's Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  In Newfoundland and Labrador, Frozen Ocean Lake falls inside Bishop's Falls. Country round the bank runs to rolling bush. Surface area runs to roughly 4.36 sq km, so plan for one area rather than the whole. With about 29 km of shoreline, local advice saves a lot of walking. Of the waters listed here in Bishop's Falls, this is the largest. Start from Bishop's Falls, 16 km down the road. St. John's sits 245 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Frozen Ocean Lake

  Depth is unknown to us, and the shoreline is the better guide. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Fish Frozen Ocean Lake to its features, not to its size. Inflows pull fish in whenever water is moving.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 16°C on average, February about -9°C. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough early May. Climate averages put the opening at about early May and the closing near early December. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. That shapes the year on Frozen Ocean Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Mapping shows an empty shoreline: no ramp, no jetty, no marked entry. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Failing this one, try Burnt Lake, 6.4 km away. None of that is settled for Frozen Ocean Lake in what we hold.