Thor Lake Fishing in Sudbury, Ontario

• Overview

  Thor Lake is one of the Sudbury listings for Ontario. The country here is lake country bush. At 1.84 sq km this is proper open water rather than a pond. There is roughly 25 km of bank, and each arm behaves like its own water. It ranks high for size among our Sudbury listings. For a base, Capreol sits 55 km out. Greater Sudbury is the closest city, 75 km away. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Thor Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. 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. Read Thor Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 17°C; the cold one sits at -16°C. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. 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 late November in an average year. Fish feed hardest at the start and the close of the open season. Time your trip to Thor Lake by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lue Lake at 0.6 km is the sensible second choice. None of that is settled for Thor Lake in what we hold.