Mackie Lake Fishing in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  Mackie Lake sits in Sudbury, out in Ontario. The land about it is rolling bush. At about 58 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. At about 5.9 km of edge, most people work one arm at a time. Some 78 km away sits Dowling, the nearest settlement. The big place round here is Greater Sudbury, 105 km distant. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Mackie Lake

  Depth figures are not published for this one. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Survey and observation records for Sudbury include smallmouth bass, northern pike and yellow perch. Species recorded across the county may be limited to a few waters. On Mackie Lake the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July near 17°C and January near -15°C on the long-run figures. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. Look for the thaw near late April; the fishing lifts straight after. Expect the water usable from around late April until roughly late November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Keep it in mind when planning a trip to Mackie Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Mishap Lake is 2.8 km distant. Treat Mackie Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.