Fishing at Kirkwood Lake, Frontenac County, Ontario

• Overview

  Kirkwood Lake stands in Frontenac County, Ontario. Lake country bush runs right down to the water. Surface area runs to about 4 hectares — small enough to read in one session. It is a small entry by Frontenac County standards. Head to Sharbot Lake, 36 km away, for anything you forgot. For a city, Nepean is 88 km off. You are close to a county edge here; who manages the access can change within a short drive.

• Where to Fish on Kirkwood Lake

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Fish documented in Frontenac County include pumpkinseed, bluegill, rock bass, smallmouth bass and yellow perch. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Read Kirkwood Lake for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 19°C and January at -11°C. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around late April. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near early December in autumn. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Anyone fishing Kirkwood Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Nothing built is recorded close to the bank here. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, Bobs Lake is 1.1 km off. Nothing here settles the position at Kirkwood Lake for certain.