Taggart Lake Fishing near Mattawa, Ontario

• Overview

  You will find Taggart Lake in Nipissing District, Ontario. Height above sea level is 182 metres. Roughly 21 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. The full circuit measures close to 2.4 km on foot. It lies lower than most water we list in Ontario. Mattawa sits 6.5 km from here and is the nearest stop. Beyond it, Callander at 46 km and Powassan at 53 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Taggart Lake

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Species logged across Nipissing District include smallmouth bass, cisco, yellow perch and pumpkinseed. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Read Taggart Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July near 18°C and January near -13°C on the long-run figures. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly late November. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. Anyone fishing Taggart Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. 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. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. Earl's Lake, 1.6 km away, makes the obvious fallback. For Taggart Lake in particular, ask before you travel.