Fishing at Yukes Lake, Renfrew County, Ontario

• Overview

  Within Renfrew County, Ontario, you have Yukes Lake. Height above sea level is 422 metres. It runs to roughly 30 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Bank access stretches around 3.3 km in total. Some 24 km away sits Eganville, the nearest settlement. Cobden is 44 km and Pembroke 50 km. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Yukes Lake

  Open data we checked carries no depth for this water. 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. Across Renfrew County, recorded fish include smallmouth bass, pumpkinseed and yellow perch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Yukes Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 18°C and January reads -13°C. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Count the season from break-up, usually late April. Break-up sits around late April on average, with the water closing again about late November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. It holds true on Yukes Lake more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Kuehl Lake at 2 km is the sensible second choice. None of that is settled for Yukes Lake in what we hold.