Lassetter Lake Fishing near Huntsville, Ontario

• Overview

  Lassetter Lake is a District Municipality of Muskoka water, in Ontario. The surface lies 367 metres up. Small at around 9 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. It is one of the smaller waters we list in District Municipality of Muskoka. The nearest place of any size is Huntsville, 14 km away. Bracebridge lies 43 km off, United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde another 53 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Lassetter Lake

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. County-wide records name pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch and rock bass. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. At Lassetter Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 18°C and January at -11°C. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about early December in a typical year. Fishing peaks soon after break-up and again before the cold returns. Lassetter Lake runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Should this one be busy, Lee Lake is 1.5 km off. Where Lassetter Lake is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.