Little Devil Lake, Ontario: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  This water sits in Frontenac County, Ontario. The surface lies 144 metres up. At 10 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Roughly 1.9 km of bank means you can walk to a fresh area when one goes quiet. By elevation it sits in the lower part of our Ontario listings. 17 km away sits Sharpton/Glenvale, the nearest town. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Little Devil Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Across Frontenac County, recorded fish include pumpkinseed, bluegill and rock bass. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Little Devil Lake the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 20°C; by January the average is down near -9°C. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Firm cover through the cold months, then open water from mid April. Ice usually gives way near mid April, and forms again about mid December. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. At Little Devil Lake the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. There is no mapped parking or launch close by, which usually means walking in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Glassy Lake is 0.6 km distant. None of that is settled for Little Devil Lake in what we hold.