Fishing at Pats Lake, Renfrew County, Ontario

• Overview

  Pats Lake lies within the bounds of Renfrew County, Ontario. It sits at 183 metres above sea level. It covers about 4 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Our Renfrew County list holds plenty of bigger water. Start from Renfrew, 23 km down the road. For a city, Nepean is 90 km off. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Pats Lake

  We hold no depth figure for this one. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Reported across Renfrew County: smallmouth bass, pumpkinseed and yellow perch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Pats Lake responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between -12°C in January and 19°C in July. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. The open-water window runs from around late April to about early December in an average year. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Time your trip to Pats Lake by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. McNultys Lake, 1.6 km away, makes the obvious fallback. What applies at Pats Lake may have changed since it was mapped.