Barager's Lake Fishing in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  Barager's Lake is one of the Sudbury waters in Ontario. The water sits 388 metres up. The water measures roughly 3 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. Most waters listed here for Sudbury are larger. Start from Capreol, 91 km down the road. Greater Sudbury sits 112 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Barager's Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Survey and observation records for Sudbury include smallmouth bass, northern pike and yellow perch. County data is a starting point rather than a guarantee. Barager's Lake gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 17°C at the top of summer and -16°C at the bottom of winter. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. Count the season from break-up, usually late April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about mid November. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. Time your trip to Barager's Lake by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Ask in the nearest town if you are unsure. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Should this one be busy, Walroth Lake is 1.7 km off. Where Barager's Lake is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.