Jennette Lake Fishing in Nipissing District, Ontario

• Overview

  Jennette Lake belongs to Nipissing District, Ontario. The country round it is mixed forest from end to end. Roughly 32 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. The full circuit measures close to 3.8 km on foot. The nearest place of any size is Mattawa, 16 km away. Then Témiscaming, 38 km, and Notre-Dame-du-Lac, 40 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Jennette Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Survey and observation records for Nipissing District include smallmouth bass, cisco and yellow perch. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Take Jennette Lake a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 18°C; the cold one sits at -13°C. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at late November. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. The season on Jennette Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. There is no recorded infrastructure here; expect to find your own way in. 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. For a change of water, Smith's Lake is 1.4 km distant. Nothing here settles the position at Jennette Lake for certain.