Fishing Little Redstone Lake in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  This water sits in Sudbury, Ontario. It sits at 379 metres above sea level. Roughly 42 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. The edge runs 3.1 km or so, easy to work in an afternoon. Nearest place of any size is Timmins, 53 km away. It is 169 km to Greater Sudbury, the nearest city. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Little Redstone Lake

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Species logged across Sudbury include smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch, Iowa darter and walleye. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Little Redstone Lake gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -17°C to 17°C. The season turns properly here, and fish follow it closely. Firm cover through the cold months, then open water from early May. Climate figures give an open season running early May to mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Little Redstone Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Formal access is not mapped, so the last stretch is likely on foot. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Semple Lake, 2.5 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Where Little Redstone Lake is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.