Foy Lake in Sudbury: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Foy Lake is one of the Sudbury waters in Ontario. The water sits 351 metres up. It measures about 69 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. The outline measures near 6.5 km, so local knowledge counts. The closest town, Timmins, is 57 km distant. The big place round here is Greater Sudbury, 165 km distant. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Foy Lake

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. 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. Survey and observation records for Sudbury include smallmouth bass, northern pike and yellow perch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. At Foy Lake light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 17°C on average, January about -17°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Break-up comes around early May, and the run that follows is short and strong. On average, early May opens the water and mid November closes it again. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. That is the shape of the year on Foy Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. For a change of water, Redstone Lake is 2.1 km distant. None of that is settled for Foy Lake in what we hold.