Fishing Fitzpatrick Lake in Algoma, Ontario

• Overview

  In Ontario, Fitzpatrick Lake falls inside Algoma. The land about it is spruce and muskeg. Around 21 hectares of surface means several distinct areas to work. Roughly 4.4 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. For a base, Wawa sits 79 km out. Further out sit Hornepayne (90 km) and Chapleau (93 km). This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Fitzpatrick Lake

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Records held for Algoma cover walleye, northern pike, Iowa darter, yellow perch and white sucker. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. On Fitzpatrick Lake the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 16°C at the top of summer and -17°C at the bottom of winter. Cold dominates the calendar on water this far north. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around early May. The lid tends to go about early May and return around mid November. The first weeks of open water and the last are the ones to plan for. Fitzpatrick Lake runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. For a change of water, Cheesehead Lake is 6.1 km distant. Treat access at Fitzpatrick Lake as something to verify.