Fishing at Fifth Lake Flowage, Digby County, Nova Scotia

• Overview

  Fifth Lake Flowage sits in Digby County, out in Nova Scotia. The bank is 139 metres above sea level. Digby lies 28 km from the water. Yarmouth is 72 km and Shelburne 73 km. Close neighbours run: Muddy Lake some 3.3 km off, Third Chub Lake at about 4.5 km, Second Chub Lake some 6.4 km off, Rushy Lake at about 6.8 km and Sixth Lake some 7.1 km off. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Fifth Lake Flowage

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Fish documented in Digby County include alewife, Atlantic salmon, American shad and American eel. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Read Fifth Lake Flowage for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 18°C; the cold one sits at -6°C. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from mid April. From about mid April to around mid December, expect open water on the long-run figures. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. That shapes the year on Fifth Lake Flowage.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Muddy Lake sits 3.3 km off and takes the overflow. Treat Fifth Lake Flowage as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.