Modden Lake Fishing Guide, Algoma, Ontario

• Overview

  Out in Algoma, Ontario, sits Modden Lake. The water sits 302 metres up. Surface area is around 85 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Around 5.9 km of bank, which is a long day on foot. The closest town, Wawa, is 20 km away. The big place round here is Greater Sudbury, 321 km distant. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Modden Lake

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Records held for Algoma cover walleye, northern pike and Iowa darter. County data is a starting point rather than a guarantee. Fish Modden Lake where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from -14°C in January up to 16°C in July. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Once it clears, about late April, the fishing comes on quickly. Ice clears near late April and comes back about late November in a typical year. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. At Modden Lake the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  The rules here are undocumented as far as public sources go. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. 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. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. The nearest alternative is Rafter Lake, 2.6 km out. None of that is settled for Modden Lake in what we hold.