Cavendish Lake, Ontario: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Cavendish Lake lies in Peterborough County, in Ontario. This is rolling bush ground. Roughly 22 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Start from Bobcaygeon, 29 km down the road. Lakefield follows at 34 km, then Haliburton Village at 39 km. Also on the doorstep: Beaver Lake just 1 km, Gold Lake some 1.7 km off, Bottle Lake just 3 km, Sucker Lake some 3.8 km off and Catchacoma Lake just 3.9 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Cavendish Lake

  We hold no depth figure for this one. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Peterborough County records list rock bass, pumpkinseed and smallmouth bass among the fish reported. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. At Cavendish Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 19°C in July and bottoms out near -10°C in January. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around mid April. From about mid April to around early December, expect open water on the long-run figures. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. At Cavendish Lake the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. There is a mapped slipway roughly 520 m away. The nearest mapped parking is 1.4 km away, so the last stretch is on foot. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. For a change of water, Beaver Lake is 1 km distant. What applies at Cavendish Lake may have changed since it was mapped.