Longs Lake Fishing near Huntsville, Ontario

• Overview

  You will find Longs Lake in District Municipality of Muskoka, Ontario. The setting is lake country bush. With some 41 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. There is roughly 5.0 km of shoreline here, which is a short walk end to end. You are 18 km from Huntsville. Barrie is the closest city, 93 km away. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Longs Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Across District Municipality of Muskoka, recorded fish include pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch and rock bass. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Longs Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 18°C and January near -11°C. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Once it clears, about mid April, the fishing comes on quickly. Ice clears near mid April and comes back about early December in a typical year. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Plan around that when you fish Longs Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. If the gate is shut, Mainhood Lake at 1 km is the nearest alternative. Treat access at Longs Lake as something to verify.