Butcher Lake Fishing in Algoma, Ontario

• Overview

  Look for Butcher Lake in the Algoma part of Ontario. Elevation runs to 470 metres. The water covers some 15 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. A shoreline of some 2.2 km keeps the choices simple. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Algoma. The town to know is Wawa, 59 km out. For a city, Greater Sudbury is 279 km off. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Butcher Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Survey and observation records for Algoma include walleye, northern pike, Iowa darter and yellow perch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Butcher Lake a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 16°C in July and bottoms out near -14°C in January. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near late April. The lid tends to go about late April and return around mid November. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Butcher Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. McQuillen Lake sits 1 km off and takes the overflow. Check the position on Butcher Lake before loading the car.