Pot Lake Fishing near Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia

• Overview

  Pot Lake belongs to Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Height above sea level is 82 metres. The water measures roughly 2 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. On size it sits at the modest end of our Halifax Regional Municipality list. Supplies mean a trip to Musquodoboit Harbour, 20 km off. Then Stewiacke, 30 km, and Milford Station, 31 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Pot Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Halifax Regional Municipality list brook trout, alewife, rainbow smelt, American eel and Atlantic salmon. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Fish Pot Lake where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -6°C in January to roughly 18°C in August. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid April. Open water usually runs from mid April until about mid December. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Anyone fishing Pot Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. 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. Take the rules with you rather than trusting memory. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Should this one be busy, Loon Lake is 1.3 km off. What applies at Pot Lake may have changed since it was mapped.