Bass Lake Fishing near Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin

• Overview

  Bass Lake is a Douglas County water, in Wisconsin. It sits at 1,158 feet above sea level. The water measures roughly 22 acres, so nothing here is far from anything else. 11 miles away sits Lake Nebagamon, the nearest town. Hayward is 27 miles and Little Round Lake 32 miles. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Bass Lake

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Records held for Douglas County cover yellow perch, walleye, white sucker, black crappie and rainbow smelt. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. Work Bass Lake in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 8°F to 67°F. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near mid April. Averages suggest open water from about mid April through to roughly late November. The strongest runs come at either end of the open season. Anyone fishing Bass Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Walleye come to jigs worked slow near bottom, and to trolled crankbaits along the drops at dusk. Ask in the nearest town if you are unsure. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Blue Lake, 0.3 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Bass Lake in what we hold.