Kidglove Lake Fishing Guide, Timiskaming District, Ontario

• Overview

  Kidglove Lake falls in Timiskaming District, part of Ontario. Height above sea level is 363 metres. Surface area is around 24 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. The edge runs 3.3 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. The nearest town is Englehart, 79 km away. Greater Sudbury sits 120 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Kidglove 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. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Records held for Timiskaming District cover brook trout, northern pike, yellow perch and Iowa darter. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. At Kidglove Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 17°C for July and -16°C for January. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly late April. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly mid November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Kidglove Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Access points are not mapped for this water, which suits people who like quiet. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. For a change of water, Callinan Lake is 1.3 km distant. Nothing here settles the position at Kidglove Lake for certain.