Lily Lake Fishing Guide, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia

• Overview

  Lily Lake is set in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Land around it is rolling bush. Surface area runs to about 2 hectares — small enough to read in one session. It is a small entry by Guysborough County standards. The nearest town is Port Hawkesbury, 33 km away. After that come Louisdale at 33 km and St. Peter's at 46 km. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lily Lake

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Records held for Guysborough County cover alewife, American eel, brook trout, Atlantic salmon and blueback herring. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. At Lily Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -6°C to 18°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. The lid usually goes in late April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Ice usually gives way near late April, and forms again about late December. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. At Lily Lake the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Take the rules with you rather than trusting memory. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Dorts Hollow Lake is 0.8 km off. Treat access at Lily Lake as something to verify.