Fishing at Little Sundown Lake, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia

• Overview

  This water sits in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. The sea is 25 km distant. At 2 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Annapolis County. Digby lies 37 km from the water. After that come Middleton at 46 km and Greenwood at 54 km. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Little Sundown Lake

  We hold no depth figure for this one. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Survey and observation records for Annapolis County include alewife, Atlantic salmon, chain pickerel, yellow perch and blueback herring. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. At Little Sundown Lake light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 18°C and January reads -6°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around mid April. Break-up near mid April, freeze-up near mid December: that is the shape of an average year. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. On Little Sundown Lake the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Sunrise Lake, 0.9 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Where Little Sundown Lake is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.