Sixth Lake in Sudbury: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Sixth Lake is a Sudbury water, in Ontario. The ground around here is rolling bush. It measures about 22 hectares, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. Around 2.2 km of margin, front to back. 83 km away sits Dowling, the nearest town. Rayside-Balfour is 87 km away, with Capreol at 93 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Sixth Lake

  Depth figures are not published for this one. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Sudbury records list smallmouth bass, northern pike and yellow perch among the fish reported. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Fish Sixth Lake where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -16°C to 17°C. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Expect the water usable from around late April until roughly late November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. The season on Sixth Lake follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Fifth Lake is 1.9 km off. Check the current arrangement for Sixth Lake.