Bartlett Lake near Bancroft: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Bartlett Lake is one of the Hastings County listings for Ontario. The surface lies 409 metres up. About 9 hectares of surface, which puts the far bank inside easy sight. You are 13 km from Bancroft. United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde is 45 km and Haliburton Village 54 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Bartlett Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Open biodiversity records for Hastings County list rock bass, smallmouth bass, pumpkinseed and yellow perch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Bartlett Lake that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 18°C and January near -12°C. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about late November in a typical year. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. That is the shape of the year on Bartlett Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Hybla Lake sits 0.8 km off and takes the overflow. Check the position at Bartlett Lake before loading the car.