Fishing at Landry Lake, Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  Look for Landry Lake in Sudbury, Ontario. The water sits 406 metres up. It measures about 73 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. At about 8.5 km of edge, most people work one arm at a time. Head to Dowling, 56 km away, for anything you forgot. Greater Sudbury is the closest city, 85 km away. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Landry Lake

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Open biodiversity records for Sudbury list smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch and Iowa darter. County records show what lives in the area; the local agency holds the water-by-water list. Landry Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -14°C in January and 18°C in July. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. Look for the thaw near late April; the fishing lifts straight after. The open-water window runs from around late April to about late November in an average year. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. That is the shape of the year on Landry Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Take the rules with you rather than trusting memory. Check whether bait restrictions apply before you buy any. Wensley Lake sits 1.9 km off and takes the overflow. None of that is settled for Landry Lake in what we hold.