Fishing Camptwo Lake in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  The Sudbury end of Ontario holds Camptwo Lake. Elevation runs to 420 metres. Surface area is around 31 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. The edge runs 4.1 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. Chapleau is the closest place, 40 km off. The big place round here is Greater Sudbury, 241 km distant. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Camptwo Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Open biodiversity records for Sudbury list smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch and Iowa darter. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. Work Camptwo Lake in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 17°C on average, January about -15°C. The year runs cold to warm and back, with clear transitions. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about mid November in a typical year. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. It sets the rhythm of the year at Camptwo Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Korpela Lake, 2 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Confirm before you fish Camptwo Lake.