Eighty Four Lake in Algoma: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Eighty Four Lake lies in Algoma, in Ontario. The country here is spruce and muskeg. It measures about 40 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. With 5.0 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. For a base, Wawa sits 59 km out. Then Hornepayne, 86 km, and Chapleau, 105 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Eighty Four Lake

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Reported across Algoma: walleye, northern pike and Iowa darter. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. On Eighty Four Lake that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 16°C in July and bottom out at -17°C in January. The freeze holds for the better part of the year. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. It sets the rhythm of the year at Eighty Four Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. If the gate is shut, Camp Lake at 2.8 km is the nearest alternative. None of that is settled for Eighty Four Lake in what we hold.