North Moher Lake in Sudbury: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  North Moher Lake is a Sudbury water, Ontario side. Beyond the shoreline you have taiga. Roughly 12 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Bank access stretches around 2.0 km in total. Most waters listed here for Sudbury are larger. Head to Timmins, 53 km away, for anything you forgot. The big place round here is Greater Sudbury, 170 km distant. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on North Moher Lake

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Across Sudbury, recorded fish include smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch, Iowa darter and walleye. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. On North Moher Lake the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 17°C, while January sits near -17°C. This is a two-season water: locked, then wide open. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near early May. Ice clears near early May and comes back about mid November in a typical year. Fishing peaks soon after break-up and again before the cold returns. North Moher Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. 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 parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. For a change of water, kapiskong Lake is 4.6 km distant. Confirm access to North Moher Lake locally before you travel.