Fishing at Wishart Lake, Algoma, Ontario

• Overview

  Wishart Lake sits in Algoma, out in Ontario. What surrounds it is rolling bush. It runs to roughly 19 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. With about 2.9 km of edge, you can try several depths in one session. Some 59 km away sits Sault Ste. Marie, the nearest settlement. For a city, Greater Sudbury is 267 km off. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Wishart Lake

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Survey and observation records for Algoma include walleye, northern pike, Iowa darter, yellow perch and white sucker. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Read Wishart Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 17°C; by January the average is down near -13°C. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about late November in a typical year. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. Plan any trip to Wishart Lake around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. If the gate is shut, Little Turkey Lake at 1 km is the nearest alternative. What applies at Wishart Lake may have changed since it was mapped.