Alice Lake Fishing near Chapleau, Ontario

• Overview

  Sudbury in Ontario is where Alice Lake sits. The ground round it is taiga. It runs to roughly 20 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. With about 2.4 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. The closest town, Chapleau, is 21 km away. The nearest city of size is Greater Sudbury, 230 km away. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Alice Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Sudbury list smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch and Iowa darter. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Alice Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about -16°C and July at about 17°C, the water has a wide range to work through. Open water arrives late and leaves early, which concentrates the fishing. After late April the shallows warm and the fish move up. On average, late April opens the water and mid November closes it again. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Plan around that when you fish Alice Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Access points are not mapped for this water, which suits people who like quiet. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Should this one be busy, Mate Lakes is 1.2 km off. Treat Alice Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.