Fishing Little Round Lake in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia

• Overview

  In Nova Scotia, Little Round Lake belongs to Guysborough County. What surrounds it is lake country bush. Small at around 3 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. On size it sits at the modest end of our Guysborough County list. Nearest town is Louisdale, 38 km off. Then Port Hawkesbury, 46 km, and St. Peter's, 46 km. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Little Round Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Salt or brackish and tidal: fish the flow, rest at slack, and watch the mud on a falling tide. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Open biodiversity records for Guysborough County list coalfish, Atlantic cod and alewife. The shape of Little Round Lake rewards a slow walk along one bank.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 18°C at the top of summer and -5°C at the bottom of winter. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Break-up near late April, freeze-up near late December: that is the shape of an average year. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Anyone fishing Little Round Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Lower Fall Lake sits 0.4 km off and takes the overflow. What applies at Little Round Lake may have changed since it was mapped.