Fishing at Woodpecker Lake, Timiskaming District, Ontario

• Overview

  This water sits in Timiskaming District, Ontario. This is lake country bush ground. The water measures roughly 5 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Timiskaming District. Nearest place of any size is Haileybury, 21 km away. The big place round here is Greater Sudbury, 127 km distant. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Woodpecker Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Public occurrence data for Timiskaming District names brook trout, northern pike and yellow perch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Woodpecker Lake fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 18°C for July and -16°C for January. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Once it clears, about late April, the fishing comes on quickly. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at late November. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. The season on Woodpecker Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Coleman Lake sits 2.2 km off and takes the overflow. Ask locally about Woodpecker Lake if anything is unclear.