Mobout Lake in Algoma: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Mobout Lake is one of the Algoma listings for Ontario. It lies 432 metres above sea level. The water covers some 28 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. Bank access stretches around 4.2 km in total. Compared with other Ontario water on our list, it sits high. Wawa sits 64 km from the bank. Chapleau is 80 km and Sault Ste. Marie 109 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Mobout Lake

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Across Algoma, recorded fish include walleye, northern pike, Iowa darter and yellow perch. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. The near bank of Mobout Lake is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -14°C to 16°C. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. Climate averages put the opening at about late April and the closing near mid November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Plan any trip to Mobout Lake around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Eleven Mile Lake sits 2.1 km off and takes the overflow. Ask locally about Mobout Lake if anything is unclear.