Nackawic Lake Fishing in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  This water sits in Sudbury, Ontario. The bank is 412 metres above sea level. At about 20 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The full circuit measures close to 3.3 km on foot. Chapleau lies 52 km from the water. It is 232 km to Greater Sudbury, the nearest city. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Nackawic Lake

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Records held for Sudbury cover smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch and Iowa darter. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. On Nackawic Lake that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 16°C and January about -15°C. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from late April. The open-water window runs from around late April to about mid November in an average year. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. It sets the rhythm of the year at Nackawic Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Should this one be busy, Bunting Lake is 1.4 km off. Nothing here settles the position at Nackawic Lake for certain.