Fishing at Eliza Lake, Timiskaming District, Ontario

• Overview

  Ontario holds Eliza Lake, in Timiskaming District. The water sits 364 metres up. 92 km away sits Englehart, the nearest town. Greater Sudbury sits 116 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Near neighbours: Fournier Lake 0.8 km away, Bing Lake just 1.4 km, Taylor Lake 2.6 km away, Herron Lake just 3.7 km and Spider Lake 4 km away. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Eliza Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Open biodiversity records for Timiskaming District list brook trout, northern pike, yellow perch and Iowa darter. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Eliza Lake for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 17°C and January about -16°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from late April. From about late April to around mid November, expect open water on the long-run figures. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Eliza Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Should this one be busy, Fournier Lake is 0.8 km off. Nothing on Eliza Lake should be assumed from this page alone.