Note Lake near Chapleau: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Note Lake lies in Sudbury, in Ontario. The surface lies 435 metres up. At 8 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Our Sudbury list holds plenty of bigger water. You are 31 km from Chapleau. For a city, Greater Sudbury is 230 km off. Alternatives close at hand: Tenor Lake at about 0.7 km, Cornet Lake out at 2.2 km, Moray Lake at about 2.6 km, Plaunt Lake out at 3.2 km and Trombone Lake at about 3.6 km. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Note Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Fish documented in Sudbury include smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch, Iowa darter and walleye. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. On Note Lake the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 16°C; by January the average is down near -15°C. The middle months are generous; the ends are demanding. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about mid November in a typical year. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. That is the shape of the year on Note Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Tenor Lake sits 0.7 km off and takes the overflow. Nothing here settles the position at Note Lake for certain.