Fishing Little Antler Lake in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  Sudbury, Ontario, is where Little Antler Lake sits. The water sits 423 metres up. It measures about 29 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. About 4.2 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. The town to know is Chapleau, 34 km out. After that come Wawa at 92 km and Sault Ste. Marie at 130 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Little Antler Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Survey and observation records for Sudbury include smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch and Iowa darter. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Little Antler Lake gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 17°C at the top of summer and -15°C at the bottom of winter. The ice season is long here and the open one short. After late April the shallows warm and the fish move up. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Plan any trip to Little Antler Lake around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Antler Lake, 1.5 km away, makes the obvious fallback. The position on Little Antler Lake is worth confirming on the day.