Mick Lake Fishing Guide, Nipissing District, Ontario

• Overview

  In Ontario, Mick Lake belongs to Nipissing District. The setting is rolling bush on every side. This is a pocket water of some 6 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. It is a small entry by Nipissing District standards. The nearest town is Petawawa, 48 km away. For a city, Gatineau is 163 km off. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Mick Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Open biodiversity records for Nipissing District list smallmouth bass, cisco and yellow perch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Read Mick Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 18°C on average, January about -13°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about late November. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Mick Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Should this one be busy, Chapeskis Lake is 0.4 km off. Check the position on Mick Lake before loading the car.