Wicklan Lake Fishing Guide, Timiskaming District, Ontario

• Overview

  Ontario holds Wicklan Lake, in Timiskaming District. Around the bank it is mixed forest. Roughly 23 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Head to Kirkland Lake, 33 km away, for anything you forgot. The nearest city of size is Greater Sudbury, 224 km away. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Wicklan Lake

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. County-wide records name brook trout, northern pike and yellow perch. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. At Wicklan Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put July at about 17°C and January near -17°C. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. Count the season from break-up, usually early May. Open water usually runs from early May until about mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Time your trip to Wicklan Lake by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Merritt Lake, 0.9 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Wicklan Lake for certain.