Little Leech Lake Fishing in District Municipality of Muskoka, Ontario

• Overview

  Little Leech Lake is one of the District Municipality of Muskoka listings for Ontario. The surroundings are lake country bush. The water covers some 19 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. The full circuit measures close to 2.0 km on foot. Supplies mean a trip to Bracebridge, 23 km off. Barrie is the closest city, 87 km away. You are close to a county edge here; who manages the access can change within a short drive.

• Where to Fish on Little Leech Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Survey and observation records for District Municipality of Muskoka include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch and rock bass. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. At Little Leech Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 18°C and January about -11°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Firm cover through the cold months, then open water from mid April. Climate figures give an open season running mid April to early December. 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 Little Leech Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Boat access is recorded roughly 1 km away. There is camping recorded roughly 1.4 km off. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. For a change of water, Saw Lake is 1.6 km distant. None of that is settled for Little Leech Lake in what we hold.