Bazalgette Lake in Digby County: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  This water sits in Digby County, Nova Scotia. Around the bank it is mixed forest. The water covers some 26 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. Digby sits 44 km from here and is the nearest stop. Yarmouth is 49 km and Shelburne 67 km. Round about: Mud Lake roughly 0.5 km, Gold Lake within 1.3 km, Cedarwood Lake roughly 1.7 km, Prout Lake within 2.6 km and Sprague Lake roughly 3 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Bazalgette Lake

  Depth figures are not published for this one. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Public occurrence data for Digby County names alewife, Atlantic salmon and American shad. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Bazalgette Lake fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 17°C and February about -5°C. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around early April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around early April and starts locking again about late December. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. The season on Bazalgette Lake follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. For the pike, wire up and throw larger lures along the weed edges. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. The nearest alternative is Mud Lake, 0.5 km out. Nothing here settles the position at Bazalgette Lake for certain.