Lordmayor Lake Fishing in Thunder Bay District, Ontario

• Overview

  Lordmayor Lake belongs to Thunder Bay District, Ontario. Country round the bank runs to boreal forest. It measures about 30 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. The bank runs about 2.5 km all the way round, so one visit can cover most of it. The nearest place of any size is Greenstone, 44 km away. Geraldton follows at 58 km, then Nipigon at 70 km. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Lordmayor Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Open biodiversity records for Thunder Bay District list cisco, blackfin cisco and rainbow smelt. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. On Lordmayor Lake the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 16°C, with January the cold end at about -20°C. Cold dominates the calendar on water this far north. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Climate figures give an open season running early May to mid November. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. That is the shape of the year on Lordmayor Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A light spinning outfit with a small box of lures and some bait covers most of what swims here. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Failing this one, try Vincent Lake, 3.2 km away. Ask locally about Lordmayor Lake if anything is unclear.