Carriere Lake in Greater Sudbury: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Carriere Lake lies in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The country here is pine and birch. Small at around 8 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Most waters listed here for Greater Sudbury are larger. Start from Rayside-Balfour, 6.8 km down the road. Dowling is 9.9 km away, with Azilda at 17 km. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Carriere Lake

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. County-wide records name smallmouth bass, yellow perch, northern pike and pumpkinseed. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. Carriere Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 18°C; the cold one sits at -14°C. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Open water usually runs from late April until about late November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Plan around that when you fish Carriere Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Boivin Lake, 1.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Carriere Lake for certain.