Big St. Margarets Bay Lake Fishing near Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia

• Overview

  You will find Big St. Margarets Bay Lake in Hants, Nova Scotia. The coast is 16 km away. Roughly 5.04 sq km of surface: treat each bay as a water in its own right. There is roughly 31 km of bank, and each arm behaves like its own water. Size puts it in the front rank of our Hants list. You are 19 km from Upper Hammonds Plains. The nearest city of size is Dartmouth, 42 km away. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Big St. Margarets Bay Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Open biodiversity records for Hants list American eel, Atlantic salmon and striped bass. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. At Big St. Margarets Bay Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -6°C in January and 18°C in August. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Break-up comes around mid April, and the run that follows is short and strong. Break-up sits around mid April on average, with the water closing again about mid December. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. On Big St. Margarets Bay Lake the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No made access appears within a short radius, so plan to park on a verge and walk. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. The nearest alternative is Little St. Margarets Bay Lake, 3.1 km out. Nothing here settles the position at Big St. Margarets Bay Lake for certain.