One Eye Lake Fishing in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  One Eye Lake is one of the Sudbury waters in Ontario. What surrounds it is northern bush. Surface area is around 22 hectares, which gives you real water without needing a boat. About 2.3 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. It is high ground by Ontario standards. Chapleau is the closest town at 48 km. Wawa is 59 km away, with Sault Ste. Marie at 142 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on One Eye Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Fish documented in Sudbury include smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch, Iowa darter and walleye. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Take One Eye Lake a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 16°C, with January the cold end at about -15°C. The ice season is long here and the open one short. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around late April. The season between ice runs from about late April to mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. One Eye Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. 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. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Fishing rules and camping rules are set separately here. Pinto Lake, 1.8 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on One Eye Lake should be assumed from this page alone.