Dishaw Lake Fishing near Sturgeon Falls, Ontario

• Overview

  Dishaw Lake is a Parry Sound District water, in Ontario. The ground around here is mixed forest. At about 13 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Bank access stretches around 2.8 km in total. Ground here is low by Ontario standards. Sturgeon Falls is the closest place, 29 km off. It is 91 km to Greater Sudbury, the nearest city. It sits near the edge of the county, so check which rules apply.

• Where to Fish on Dishaw Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Parry Sound District records list smallmouth bass, pumpkinseed, yellow perch, northern pike and rock bass among the fish reported. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. At Dishaw Lake the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 19°C at the top of summer and -12°C at the bottom of winter. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. Once it clears, about late April, the fishing comes on quickly. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly early December. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. That is the shape of the year on Dishaw Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. Spruce Lake, 1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Confirm before you fish Dishaw Lake.