Murr Lake Fishing in Timiskaming District, Ontario

• Overview

  Murr Lake sits within Timiskaming District in Ontario. Height above sea level is 350 metres. At about 80 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The margin runs to about 5.7 km in total. Size puts it in the front rank of our Timiskaming District list. Timmins is the closest town at 49 km. The nearest city of size is Greater Sudbury, 194 km away. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Murr Lake

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Open biodiversity records for Timiskaming District list brook trout, northern pike and yellow perch. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. At Murr Lake the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 17°C in July and bottoms out near -17°C in January. The season is measured in weeks rather than months. Look for the thaw near early May; the fishing lifts straight after. The season between ice runs from about early May to mid November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. On Murr Lake that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. Mapping shows an empty shoreline: no ramp, no jetty, no marked entry. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Should this one be busy, Little Murr Lake is 1.2 km off. Treat access at Murr Lake as something to verify.