Fishing Leece Lake in Cochrane District, Ontario

• Overview

  Leece Lake sits within Cochrane District in Ontario. Around the bank it is lake country bush. Small at around 2 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Cochrane District. Iroquois Falls is the closest place, 27 km off. Greater Sudbury sits 230 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Leece Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Public occurrence data for Cochrane District names northern pike, yellow perch, white sucker, Iowa darter and logperch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Leece Lake a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 17°C in July and bottoms out near -18°C in January. Winter closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. The lid tends to go about early May and return around mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Leece Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. The nearest car park is 230 m from the water. You can camp 410 m off, which suits an early start. Public toilets are recorded roughly 150 m off. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. For a change of water, Pexton Lake is 0.5 km distant. Treat access at Leece Lake as something to verify.