Little Murr Lake Fishing Guide, Timiskaming District, Ontario

• Overview

  In Ontario, Little Murr Lake belongs to Timiskaming District. Height above sea level is 351 metres. Around 25 hectares of surface means several distinct areas to work. Shoreline comes to about 2.6 km, small enough to learn in a day. The closest town, Timmins, is 48 km distant. Iroquois Falls lies 106 km off, Cochrane another 115 km. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Little Murr Lake

  Our records hold no depth for this water. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Survey and observation records for Timiskaming District include brook trout, northern pike, yellow perch and Iowa darter. Species recorded across the county may be limited to a few waters. At Little Murr Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -17°C in January to roughly 17°C in July. Winter owns most of the year at this latitude. Once it clears, about early May, the fishing comes on quickly. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Anyone fishing Little Murr Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Murr Lake at 1.2 km is the sensible second choice. None of that is settled for Little Murr Lake in what we hold.