Fishing Piggott Lake in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  Set in Sudbury, Piggott Lake is an Ontario water. Elevation runs to 371 metres. It runs to roughly 79 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Shoreline length is close to 8.0 km, and each section fishes a little differently. You are 100 km from Timmins. It is 132 km to Greater Sudbury, the nearest city. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Piggott Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Species logged across Sudbury include smallmouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch, Iowa darter and walleye. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. Fish Piggott Lake to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -16°C to 17°C. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough late April. Ice usually gives way near late April, and forms again about mid November. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Anyone fishing Piggott Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. 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. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Jessica Lake, 1.7 km away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Piggott Lake in what we hold.