Fishing Chitty Lake in North Slave Region, Northwest Territories

• Overview

  You will find Chitty Lake in North Slave Region, Northwest Territories. The water sits 261 metres up. It measures some 2.38 sq km, and wind has room to build across it. At about 17 km of edge, most people work one arm at a time. On size it sits at the modest end of our North Slave Region list. Yellowknife is the closest town at 31 km. Behchokǫ̀ is 98 km and Hay River 229 km. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Chitty Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. North Slave Region records list Arctic grayling, lake trout and slimy sculpin among the fish reported. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. At Chitty Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 16°C and January about -27°C. The freeze holds for the better part of the year. Once it clears, about late May, the fishing comes on quickly. Ice usually gives way near late May, and forms again about late October. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Chitty Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Drygeese Lake is 2.8 km off. For Chitty Lake, the notice at the access point is the final word.