Pantaloon Lake Fishing Guide, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia

• Overview

  Pantaloon Lake lies within the bounds of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Salt water lies 3.4 km off. With some 15 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. About 2.0 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. Nearest place of any size is Brookside, 2.1 km away. Further out sit Shad Bay (4.3 km) and Beechville (11 km). This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Pantaloon Lake

  Depth here is unknown, so count the lead down before committing. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Across Halifax Regional Municipality, recorded fish include brook trout, alewife, rainbow smelt, American eel and Atlantic salmon. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. On Pantaloon Lake the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 18°C; the cold one sits at -5°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near mid April. The water is typically free of ice between mid April and late December. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. It holds true on Pantaloon Lake more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Fiddle Lake, 1.1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Pantaloon Lake in what we hold.