Fishing Feagan Lake in Cochrane District, Ontario

• Overview

  Feagan Lake is one of the Cochrane District listings for Ontario. The water sits 131 metres up. Roughly 47 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Shoreline comes to about 2.6 km, small enough to learn in a day. It is low-lying compared with other Ontario water we list. Hearst lies 73 km from the water. Beyond it, Hornepayne at 93 km and Manitouwadge at 138 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Feagan Lake

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Open biodiversity records for Cochrane District list northern pike, yellow perch, white sucker, Iowa darter and logperch. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. Feagan Lake fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 17°C in July and bottoms out near -19°C in January. Everything is compressed into the middle of the year. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. The season on Feagan Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Ask in the nearest town if you are unsure. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Should this one be busy, Brave Lake is 24 km off. Check the position on Feagan Lake before loading the car.