Fox Lake Fishing Guide, Timiskaming District, Ontario

• Overview

  Look for Fox Lake in the Timiskaming District part of Ontario. The land about it is pine and birch. It covers about 2 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. It is a small entry by Timiskaming District standards. Supplies mean a trip to Kirkland Lake, 47 km off. The big place round here is Greater Sudbury, 165 km distant. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Fox Lake

  No figure exists for depth, so let the water show you. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Open biodiversity records for Timiskaming District list brook trout, northern pike, yellow perch, Iowa darter and walleye. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. At Fox Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from -17°C in January up to 17°C in July. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early May. Climate averages put the opening at about early May and the closing near mid November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. It holds true on Fox Lake more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Moyneur Lake, 1.2 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Confirm access to Fox Lake locally before you travel.