Circle Lake Fishing Guide, Parry Sound District, Ontario

• Overview

  In Ontario, Circle Lake belongs to Parry Sound District. Around the bank it is rolling bush. It covers about 6 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. On size it sits at the modest end of our Parry Sound District list. Sturgeon Falls lies 43 km from the water. Then West Nipissing, 43 km, and Powassan, 53 km. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Circle Lake

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Reported across Parry Sound District: smallmouth bass, pumpkinseed, yellow perch and northern pike. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Read Circle Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 19°C; the cold one sits at -11°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Once it clears, about mid April, the fishing comes on quickly. In an average year the thaw lands around mid April and the freeze near early December. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Circle Lake runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Boodis Lake is 1.4 km off. For Circle Lake, the notice at the access point is the final word.