Fishing Tassikadlak Lake in Nunavut, Nunavut

• Overview

  Tassikadlak Lake lies in Nunavut. The surface lies 93 metres up. Surface area runs to roughly 2.58 sq km, so plan for one area rather than the whole. At about 18 km of edge, most people work one arm at a time. On size it sits at the modest end of our Nunavut list. Nearest place of any size is Naujaat, 80 km away. For a city, Winnipeg is 1872 km off. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Tassikadlak Lake

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Fish Tassikadlak Lake to its features, not to its size. Small features hold more than big empty water.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 10°C and February at -31°C. Winter runs most of the calendar, and everything worth doing happens in the gap. Once it clears, about late June, the fishing comes on quickly. On average, late June opens the water and early October closes it again. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. Plan around that when you fish Tassikadlak Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Quinijulik Lake, 15 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the current arrangement for Tassikadlak Lake.