Maryjane Lake in Parry Sound District: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  The Parry Sound District entry here is Maryjane Lake, in Ontario. The surface lies 380 metres up. It runs to roughly 17 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Bank access stretches around 2.0 km in total. You are 16 km from South River. Greater Sudbury is the closest city, 153 km away. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Maryjane Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Across Parry Sound District, recorded fish include smallmouth bass, pumpkinseed, yellow perch and northern pike. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Fish Maryjane Lake to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 18°C and January about -12°C. Seasons are distinct, and each one fishes differently. Once it clears, about late April, the fishing comes on quickly. Open water usually runs from late April until about late November. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Expect Maryjane Lake to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. For a change of water, Denis Lake is 1.3 km distant. Rules at Maryjane Lake are worth checking on the day.