Fishing at Mike Lake, Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  You will find Mike Lake in Sudbury, Ontario. Land around it is rolling bush. With some 40 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Around 3.5 km of margin, front to back. Start from Dowling, 75 km down the road. Rayside-Balfour lies 80 km off, Valley East another 90 km. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Mike Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Public occurrence data for Sudbury names smallmouth bass, northern pike and yellow perch. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. At Mike Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 18°C, the coldest about -15°C. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from late April. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near late November in autumn. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. That is the shape of the year on Mike Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Nothing built is recorded close to the bank here. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Larkin Lake sits 2.2 km off and takes the overflow. What applies at Mike Lake may have changed since it was mapped.