Round Lake Fishing near Stillwater Lake, Nova Scotia

• Overview

  Round Lake sits in Halifax Regional Municipality, out in Nova Scotia. The water sits 56 metres up. The water measures roughly 10 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. Supplies mean a trip to Stillwater Lake, 1 km off. Dartmouth sits 21 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Not far off: Lewis Lake 0.6 km off, Elbow Lake at 1.1 km, Hubley Mill Lake 1.3 km off, Flat Lake at 1.3 km and Land of Laziness Lake 1.6 km off. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Round Lake

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Open biodiversity records for Halifax Regional Municipality list brook trout, alewife, rainbow smelt and American eel. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Read Round Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect August to average close to 18°C, with January the cold end at about -6°C. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around mid April. The open-water window runs from around mid April to about mid December in an average year. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. That is the shape of the year on Round Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. There is a campsite 380 m from the water. The water borders Lewis Lake Provincial Park, so expect the reserve rules to apply. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Lewis Lake at 0.6 km is the sensible second choice. What applies at Round Lake may have changed since it was mapped.